A good bowl of ramen is made of :

  • a fundamental taste base, called tare (sho, shoyu, miso), really concentrated
  • a broth (bone or vegetal broth)
  • home made ramen (alkaline noodles, long, silky and elastic, with good flour and lye of baked baking soda)
  • toppings (vegetables, meats, soft boiled and marinated eggs, bean sprouts, garlic butter, ...)
  • oil (anchovy oil, sesame olid, peanuts oil, black garlic oil, chinese red hot oil ...)

When all this is well made, and nicely combined in a bowl, you discover the real taste of ramens ! And there is nothing more comfortable than good ramens !

a Shoyu Tare

Mix

  • 2 cup of soy sauce
  • 1/2 cup of mirin
  • 1/2 cup of sake
  • 2 minced garlic cloves
  • 1 spoon of minced ginger
  • 1/2 cup of brown sugar
  • 2 cup of dashi

Put everything to boil, and let reduce to 1/4 of the volume. Filter the result Your shoyu tare is ready !

You can use a saute mirepoix, and mushroom or leaks broth, in place of the dashi, to obtaint a more tasty complex tare.