Makes: 4-5 servings
Total Time: minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 TBS olive oil
- 1 lb ground pork (or beef)
- 1 cup of diced sweet potatoes
- 1.5 cups of shiitake mushrooms sliced
- 2 tsp ginger powder
- 1.5 tsp minced garlic
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 6 cups of low sodium chicken broth
- 2 TBS coconut aminos
- 1 TBS mirin (typically found on the international aisle)
- 1 TBS sesame oil
- 1/2 tsp coconut sugar
- 1 tsp celery salt
- 2 packages of ramen noodles (discard the gross spice packet)
- 4-5 soft boiled eggs (1 per serving)
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper (omit if you can’t do the spicy)
- hot sauce
What to do:
- Heat olive oil over medium high heat in a dutch oven
- Add meat and cook until brown; chop up the meat into very small pieces
- Use a slotted spoon to remove meat to paper towel lined bowl
- Add diced sweet potatoes and saute until tender (7-8 min)
- Add mushrooms ginger and garlic
- Add salt and pepper to taste
- Add chicken broth, coconut aminos, mirin, sesame oil, coconut sugar, celery salt and cooked meat
- Bring to a boil, reduce to simmer cover and cook for 15-20 minutes
- While simmering, cook your soft boiled egg
- Pour enough water into a pot that could cover the eggs by 1 inch
- Bring to a boil
- While water is boiling, set eggs out on a counter (to bring to room temp) and prepare a bowl of ice water (to be used later)
- Once the water is boiling, carefully place the eggs in
- Cook for 6-7 minutes
- Remove with a slotted spoon and place into the ice water
- Once cooled – peel and set aside
- Add ramen noodles and simmer on low (still covered) for 5-10 minutes until noodles are tender
- Sprinkle with cayenne pepper
- Serve with hot sauce and soft boiled egg