Are you sick and tired of the same old plain ramen noodles with broth? Have you ever considered adding a little something extra to them to actually make them worth calling an entree? Here are some recipes to help.
Asian Style
Try to find the Asian style noodles for this, as their packages contain better broth mix, oil and seasoning, but if your grocer doesn't carry them, try the regular ramen packages, either shrimp, shrimp chilli or beef flavor.
Cook off some thin sliced beef steak or shrimp. Cook Asian noodles or ramen noodles together with some broccoli, pineapple, snow peas, baby carrots, red peppers and tomatoes.
Beef and Vegetable
With roast beef or regular beef flavored ramen noodles, add celery, diced potatoes, corn, green beans, and carrots. Actually you could even just add a bag of mixed vegetables or just add whatever vegetables you like into the mixture. Spinach always goes good with this combo.
Vegetarian Style Ramen
For you vegetarians out there, there is a recipe for you too. Make sure to not add the seasoning (obviously). Boil your noodles and add the same combination of noodles as above beef and veggie recipe (without the beef of course) or any mixture you choose. Adding esparagus or spinach leaves to this one is recommended. Add a can of tomato sauce, stued tomatoes or tomato puree to the blend. Tomato soup works too. Season with a bit of garlic, garlic cloves, garlic powder, garlic salt or garlic something, just to give it a bit more flavor. This is, of course, optional.
Southwest Chicken
For this one, cook your package of chicken flavored ramen. Before you do that, though, you'll want to prepare the southwest chicken. Find a recipe for southwest seasoned chicken. You can use pulled chicken off of a whole cooked rotisserie or fried chicken. Add some chiles, onions, pepper, chipotle pepper or sauce, and maybe some hot sauce, tobasco or salsa.
Spicy Hot Ramen
This one is pretty straight forward. Simply add some peppers, hot sauce or both. Tobasco works too. The spicy asian hot sauce with the rooster on the bottle is good, too.
Lemon Seafood
This one has variations. You could try using the shrimp or lime chilli shrimp or chlli shrimp flavor ramen noodle packages and add lemon, lemon pepper and shrimp. You could also add other types of seafood, such as crab or lobster or even oyster. You could also leave out the seasoning package and just add the lemon or lemon juice (or lime or lime juice) with lemon pepper and red onions. If you do this, don't use a lot of water. Also, you could use freshwater fish with the same flavoring.
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