Crispy Pork Belly Ramen

Sanjay Parmar
Sanjay Parmar @sanjcooks

Ramen may seem like one of those dishes you can't recreate at home, but that's a complete myth. Sure you can spend hours preparing an authentic homemade stock using the bones, but you can also achieve similar flavours using shop bought stock and spiking it with all those important Asian flavours.

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Ingredients

1 hour 15 mins
2 servings
  1. 1.3 kgpiece boned pork belly, skin on and scored
  2. 2 tspChinese five-spice powder
  3. 4 tbsphoisin sauce
  4. 5 clovesgarlic, grated
  5. Thumb piece of ginger, peeled and grated
  6. 3 tbspcaster sugar
  7. 2 tbspmirin
  8. For the ramen
  9. 1 litregood quality chicken stock
  10. 2 tbspwhite miso paste
  11. 2 tbspsoy sauce
  12. 1 tspgarlic salt
  13. 4spring onions, sliced
  14. 2large red chillies, sliced
  15. 1 tbspfish sauce
  16. 1 tspsugar
  17. 2nests of ramen / egg noodles
  18. Shredded or ribbons of 1 - 2 carrots

Cooking Instructions

1 hour 15 mins
  1. 1

    Rub the pork with the five-spice and 1 tsp fine salt. In a large deep dish  combine the hoisin sauce, grated garlic, ginger, mirin and sugar. Place the pork, flesh side down in the mixture ensuring there is no contact with the skin. Leave uncovered, in the fridge for at least 2 hrs, but preferably overnight. When ready to cook, heat oven to its maximum setting. Lay the pork on a rack over a roasting tin, making sure the skin is exposed.

  2. 2

    Roast for 10 mins before turning down the heat to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4, then leave to cook for a further 1½ hrs. Have a look at the pork – if the skin isn’t crisp, turn up the heat to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7, then cook for another 30 mins until crisp. Leave to rest on a board for at least 10 mins. Retain the left over pork fat / juices.

  3. 3

    In a medium saucepan, combine the stock, garlic salt, miso, sugar and soy sauce; bring to a boil over high heat, whisking to dissolve the miso and sugar. Once dissolved, add in 3 or 4 tbsp of the leftover juices from the pork - avoid too much oil or fat. Finally add the fish sauce to taste.

  4. 4

    Add the carrots, spring onions and chillies to the broth.

  5. 5

    Finally, add the ramen noodles and cook until just softened, about 3 minutes.

  6. 6

    Slice the pork and serve on top of the ramen noodles and finish by drizzling sriracha and garnishing with more red chillies and spring onions.

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