

The inside of the roll can still be quite raw at this point. The first step is to braise the pork in a pan with a small amount of oil until the fat outside is cooked and has a light brown tinge. Once rolled you need to tie that think up with twine like you would do a roast in the oven. If you roll from the short end, you get a more authentic-looking spiral Chasu, but often you will only be able to plate it with 2 slices per bowl. If you fold along the long end you end up with a thin roll of Chasu, you get to plate lots of little discs. Here I tried two styles of rolling: One from the short end and one from the long end.


Then you will need to roll the belly with the fat layer on the outside. With a sharp knife, you need to slice off the tough fat layer on the top of the belly, be sure to cut carefully and away from yourself. Seems expensive but we ended up using each of them for a meal for 5 people! So together these two bellies fed the family twice. The fat layer is good but try to get a belly where there is about 3/4 meat on it. So in this post, I will focus on one of the main toppings of the ramen: The Chasu Pork.Įssentially what you need to do is buy yourself a pork belly with a lot of meat on it. otherwise, everything would turn to mush! Different parts of the ramen are prepared separately and they are combined and plated together just before consumption. When making ramen like tonkotsu, you may begin preparing 3 days before you intend to plate your dish. One thing that I learned is that in a true-to-Japanese culture, you needed to take your time and ensure good quality. I would, however, need to practice so I got to work. I watched a bunch of videos about making ramen and read some recipes and determined that I should be able to make this dish. So I determined to assess whether or not I would be able to make this dish at home. The third reason is that this ramen shop is far from home and transporting that amount of kids is difficult and often leads to more guests flaking out. The Restaurant serves only beef, chicken or vegetarian ramen, both meat dishes are served on a chicken stock broth. The restaurant in Cape Town does not do tonkotsu broth or Chasu because both contain pork. The second reason is that Aime loves the idea of having the ramen from the Naruto anime series, which is tonkotsu ramen with Chasu pork. One is that the only place that seems to be doing decent Japanese ramen is a bit pricy(for a group of kids as Aime wants to invite). Doing some research I realized that I would need to make the ramen myself for three reasons. These are done with smaller amounts of people and often for longer periods of time.īecause is such a weeb, she requested this year for us to do a ramen eating thing. Instead, the family generally goes for outings or other events that happen at home. In our household, we have dispensed with the regular big birthday parties with a cake, decorations, and other food followed by a 2-3 hour long sugar-fueled activity. On the 27th of February, will be turning 14.
