Tonkotsu ramen
Tonkotsu ramen, from above
Non vegFukuoka

Tonkotsu ramen

Creamy, milky pork bone broth from your pressure cooker. Hakata comes home.

180 minTime
58 gProtein each
mildSpice
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Make it your way

Grandma's wayPork bone broth boiled until milky, with thin noodles, chashu and egg.
The original
1014kcalsame
58 gproteinsame
4 gfibresame
180minutessame

Hakata style tonkotsu ramen.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

4 servings
Pork trotters700 g pork trotters and bones, split
Water10 cups
Garlic1 head, halved
Gingera thumb, sliced
Spring onion (green onion, scallion)5 stalks, divided
Pork belly160 g, for chashu
Soy sauce2½ tbsp, divided
Sugar1 tbsp
Egg4
Salt1½ tsp
Sesame oil2 tsp
Wheat noodles4 portions thin ramen noodles
Sesame seeds1 tbsp, toasted
Nori sheets2 sheets, halved

Method

6 steps
  1. 1Cover the trotters with water, boil hard for 10 minutes, then drain and scrub off the scum.
  2. 2Pressure cook the bones with the water, garlic, ginger and half the spring onion: 1 whistle on high, then 60 minutes on low. Let the pressure release naturally.
  3. 3Open the cooker and boil the broth hard, uncovered, for 30 minutes, stirring now and then. Strain.
  4. 4Meanwhile braise the pork belly in 2 tbsp soy, the sugar and water for 45 minutes. Boil eggs 6 1/2 minutes, peel, and soak in the braising liquid.
  5. 5Put remaining soy, salt and sesame oil in each bowl. Add boiling broth, then noodles cooked 1 to 2 minutes until firm.
  6. 6Top with sliced chashu, halved eggs, spring onion, sesame and nori.
Serve it like this

Ladle the milky broth into deep bowls, noodles in neat folds, chashu and half eggs on top with sesame and spring onion. Pickled ginger on the side.

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To drink Matcha latte5 min
Something sweet Matcha ice cream20 min
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