10 Minute Meal

19 ingredients
7 steps

Ingredients

  • ramen noodles, as many packages as needed
  • 1 12 cups water or 1 12 cups chicken stock, per package of noodles
  • onion, chopped (green, red, yellow, white, pearl, sweet, leeks, chives or shallot)
  • carrot (finely chopped, thinly sliced, or julienne, baby carrots work very well)
  • celery (finely chopped or thinly sliced)
  • mushroom (of whatever sort, thinly sliced, fresh, tinned, or dried)
  • bell pepper, finely chopped (a mix of colors adds to the visual appeal)
  • fresh yams or fresh sweet potato, julienne and cut to very thin bite size
  • cherry tomatoes, quartered
  • sausage (kielbasa, bratwurst, mettwurst, pepperoni, genoa, what have you, cut into thin bite-size bits)
  • cold cuts beef (lamb, pork, ham, chicken or turkey, cut bite size)
  • bacon, crumbled
  • meatballs (crumbled or cut bite size) or meatloaf (crumbled or cut bite size)
  • beef jerky, cut thinly across the grain
  • cooked fish (fresh or tinned, anything but lobster, there are no recipes for leftover lobster, there's never any) or shell fish, clams, oysters, mussels, crawdads, s callops, etc (fresh or tinned, anything but lobster, there are no recipes for leftover lobster, there's never any)
  • cheese (of every persuasion, grated, shredded, crumbled or cut into small cubes, Ramen with green onions and)
  • soy sauce, Worcestershire, tamari, hot, barbecue (I prefer Cholulla hot sauce)
  • mustard, horseradish, etc. (Anything I may have missed? Check your fridge and pantry, you'll find something)
  • salt & freshly ground black pepper

Directions

  1. 1
    Bring the water or stock to a boil in a sauce pan.
  2. 2
    Open the noodles.
  3. 3
    If you like playing with long noodles leave them as is, if not break them into more manageable lengths (throw away the little 'flavor packet' of unpronounceable chemicals).
  4. 4
    When pan boils, add the noodles and any options you desire and cook, covered for 3 minutes.
  5. 5
    ADD ANY COOKED FISH OR SHELLFISH AFTER THE NOODLES ARE DONE TO AVOID OVERCOOKING IT.
  6. 6
    Flavor with any sauce(s) you wish.
  7. 7
    That's it start to table in 10 minutes.

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