Ramen Egg (Ajitama)
Ramen Egg (Ajitama)

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, ramen egg (ajitama). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ramen Egg (Ajitama) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Ramen Egg (Ajitama) is something which I have loved my entire life.

Ajitama (short for Ajitsuke Tamago) are a staple in almost all bowls of ramen. This is an easy method to make it with some pretty easy to find ingredients. Amen Eggs (Ajitsuke Tamago) are delicious as topping on ramen or enjoyed as snack.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook ramen egg (ajitama) using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Ramen Egg (Ajitama):
  1. Prepare 4 Eggs
  2. Take 3 tablespoons soy sauce
  3. Get 3 tablespoons mirin
  4. Get 3 tablespoons sake
  5. Prepare 1 teaspoon sugar

It's not so much that we always eat ramen eggs, but we. Last week at The Food Lab, we plumbed the fascinating depths of homemade tonkotsu ramen broth and came up with a pretty great recipe. But great ramen is not built upon broth alone. The eggs commonly served in ramen have a number of names: Ajitama, Hanjuku tamago, Yudetamago, so on and so forth.

Steps to make Ramen Egg (Ajitama):
  1. Boil the eggs and peel.
  2. While boiling the eggs, in a different pan/pot, cook soy sauce, mirin, sake and sugar to cook off the alcohol.
  3. Put peeled eggs and the liquid(from step 2) into a plastic bag and push out the air.
  4. Wait 6 hours to one day.

For our purposes we'll just call them ajitama. Ramen Eggs are known as Ajituske Tamago (味付け玉子) or Ajitama(味玉) for short in Japan. The name literally means "flavored egg" in Japanese, and it's pronounced as follows: a like all ji like jeep. Baically Ajitsuke Tamago or Ajitama is the kind of egg you usually get from ramen restaurant. While boiling the eggs, in a different pan/pot, cook soy sauce, mirin, sake and sugar to cook off the alcohol.

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