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Homemade Miso Ramen

📍 Japan
⏱️Prep: 30 min
🔥Cook: 90 min
Total: 120 min
🍽️4 servings
Difficulty: Hard

Miso ramen is the most umami-rich and robust variant of Japanese ramen: a long-cooked pork broth into which red miso paste is stirred at the very end to preserve its complexity, served with wheat noodles, chashu — pork belly braised in soy sauce — and a soft-boiled egg marinated until the yolk is jammy and savoury. Each component is prepared separately and assembled to order, making homemade ramen a cooking project well worth planning a day ahead.

🛒 Ingredients

4 servings
  • 500g pork ribs
  • 4 ramen noodle servings
  • 4 cda red miso paste
  • 2L chicken broth
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 nori sheets
  • 4 scallions
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 30g fresh ginger

👨‍🍳 Step-by-step instructions

  1. Cook the ribs in the broth for 90 minutes over low heat with ginger and garlic.

  2. Marinate cooked eggs for 6 minutes in soy sauce with mirin for 4 hours.

  3. Cook the noodles al dente according to the package (usually 2-3 minutes).

  4. In each bowl, dissolve 1 cda of miso with hot broth.

  5. Add noodles, shredded pork, halved egg, and nori.

  6. Top with chopped scallions and serve very hot.

💡 Chef's tip

The miso should not boil: add it only at the end, dissolved in broth at around 80°C, to preserve its probiotics and aroma.

📝 Our take

Homemade miso ramen is the best effort-to-reward dish in all of home Japanese cooking. A broth made from scratch with chicken bones and kombu bears no resemblance to the supermarket packet version. The marinated egg is optional, but you should not skip it.

🍷 Wine & food pairing

Cold Japanese Sapporo or Asahi beer. Or hot hojicha green tea on a cold day.

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