Thai Coconut Ramen with Tofu and Yummy Stuff

This is basically two recipes in one, so you’re welcome. We made this Thai Coconut Soup a while back and froze half of it for a rainy day. Well that rainy day came along and we got a little creative with our soup and kicked it up a notch, as we do. So we turned it into a hella tasty ramen with broccoli and extra flavors. So feel free to enjoy the soup (which we will start with first), and then if you are feeling fancy, take it to another level!

Thai Coconut Ramen with Tofu and other Tasty Shit

Ingredients

1 tbs. vegetable oil

1/2 cup shiitake mushrooms, cut the buts and chop them up

About 2 stalks of lemon grass, minced

2 tbs. fresh minced ginger

1 garlic clove, minced

4-6 teaspoons Thai red curry paste

6 cups vegetable broth

3 tbs. fish sauce substitute (basically 1 cup water, 1 tbs. salt, 1 tsp. soy sauce, and a little dried shiitake simmered for 25 minutes, drained and cooled)

1 tbs. suga

1 can of coconut milk

1 block of EXTRA firm tofu (WildWood tofu is so firm, it’s awesome)

A couple of limes

S&P

Cilantro and scallions, chopped

First grab a big ole pot, the biggest you got. Add your oil and heat until it’s shiny. Then add your flavor savors – mushrooms, lemon grass, ginger, and garlic and cook, stirring constantly until it smells like heaven in your kitchen. Or 30 seconds. Add the curry paste and cook until you start to smell those yummy aromatics. Finally, whisk in half a cup of vegetable broth scraping up any browned bits and smoothing the clumps. Add a little more broth if it’s all getting stuck in your whisk.

Next, stir in the remaining 5 and 1/2 cups of broth, your fish sauce substitute, and sugar. Bring that to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer, partially covered for 20 minutes

Once you 20 minutes is up, stir in your coconut milk, chopped up tofu and lime juice and bring to a simmer. Cook this until the tofu is warm. Then season to your liking with salt and pepper and garnish with cilantro (I like a lot of cilantro), scallions, and lime. And there you go, soup! (continue on to kick it up a notch)

Now, this is the easiest part. You can enjoy your soup and save some for your ramen! To get this party started, all you are going to need is your favorite pack of ramen noodles. Mine are actually Yakisoba Stir Fry Noodles in the Hot & Spicy Flavor.

*I just remembered I also added some broccoli. Add your chopped up broccoli when your soup is complete and simmer for a few minutes until tender, then continue*

So you have your soup. I would actually split the soup or add 2 packs of the noodles. Up to you how soupy you like it. Heat up your noodles a little as it says on the pack and add them to your soup, really incorporating all of that yummy flavor. Add a few sprinkles of the flavor pack. Just a few! You don’t want to ruin all the yumm flavor you just created. But the flavor pack gives it a little heat. If you don’t want heat, don’t use the flavor pack. I also added a bunch of sriracha and a little more curry past to boost the flavor.

Heat up your noodles and broth for about 5 minutes. Then serve! Adding extra sriracha and cilantro on top for the perfect bowl of ramen!! Enjoy with some Sake beer like Lagunitas Sakitumi for a delicious flavor combo.