Melting Pork Ramen
Recipe: #36591
March 09, 2021
Categories: Pork Roast, Eggs, Spinach, Asian, Slow Cooker, Crockpot Soup, Pork Crock Pot Recipes, more
"From our Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times. NOTE full recipe title is Slow-Cooker Melting Pork Ramen."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (881.9 g)
- Calories 1975.1
- Total Fat - 163 g
- Saturated Fat - 57.4 g
- Cholesterol - 1093 mg
- Sodium - 1577.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 56 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.4 g
- Sugars - 5.9 g
- Protein - 64.5 g
- Calcium - 193.2 mg
- Iron - 7.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 8.4 mg
- Thiamin - 1.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Heat the oil in a large frying pan and add the pork, rind-side down, and cook for 10 minutes or until golden and then turn over and cook for a further 5 minutes, adding the garlic, cut-side down, in the last 2 minutes of cooking and then transfer the pork and garlic to a slow cooker. and add the stock, ginger and shallot and cover and cook, covered, on High for 5-6 hours or until the pork is very tender.
Step 2
Use tongs to transfer the pork to a plate and set aside to cool slightly. Remove and discard the rind and fat and using forks to coarsely shred the pork and then transfer to a baking tray.
Step 3
Stir the mirin, soy sauce and sambal oelek into the slow cooker and season with more soy sauce, mirin and sambal oelek, if desired.
Step 4
Cook the noodles in a large saucepan of boiling water for 5 minutes or until just tender, drain and divide among serving bowls.
Step 5
Meanwhile, preheat a grill/broiler on high and place the pork under the grill for 3 minutes or until browned.
Step 6
Divide the pork and spinach among the bowls and pour in the broth and serve topped with egg halves, extra shallot and chilli, if using.
Tips
No special items needed.