I’ve had good success with KAF’s recipes (even if I don’t necessarily use their flour.) their recipes include grams usually. I like their collection of sourdough if you feel up to keeping a pet (aka the sourdough starter) but they also have ciabatta that uses a polish id recommend for Demi loaves/buns
Measuring by weight is the only real way I get any consistency in baking. I’m notoriously bad at baking but am looking to improve. Meats, soups, stews, main dishes, and potato side dishes are where my skills particularly excel.
I appreciate the recipe, I have some pulled pork leftover, I might try my hand at making some buns for sandwiches, maybe even a Cuban.
Baking is extremely formulaic, measuring by weight is the best way. Unless, like, you’re Paul Hollywood, or something.
I’d highly recommend perusing KAF’s recipes. There’s a lot of gems there. (Particularly well loved are the sourdough popovers and waffles, the Carmel-nut cinnamon rolls- which you can just make “normal” rolls, too, using the dough instructions.)
One of the nice things about KAF is they have a hotline if something is giving you trouble. Goes straight to the bakers (more or less?) in the test kitchen.
Edit: they also have instructions on how to start and care for a sourdough starter. (Basically consists of leave a lump of dough on the counter until wild yeast moves in. At which point you have pretty much the worlds easiest to care for pet.)
Generally, you could probably follow any recipe that calls for AP and directly sub bread flour. For bread, the difference isn’t going to be a problem. You would have problems in a cake or biscuits, but you’ll be fine here. Additionally, subbing 10 - 20 % WW will effectively get you too about the same protein content as AP since WW doesn’t form gluten as easily.
I just wish I could filter their recipes by ingredient. “bread flour” site:kingarthurbaking.com didn’t help either, got a bunch of links where that string was only in the comments.
You can get some amazing broth packets or cubes/coins off of Amazon for both Japanese style ramen and spicy (or non spicy) Korean soups. These are fantastic. Keep the instant broth on hand, put them in some boiling water, toss in whatever veggies, egg, meats, noodles, whatever, give it a few minutes, and voila. Nearly effortless soup.
I personally keep fresh veggies, tofu, dried noodles, dehydrated mushrooms, frozen dumplings, and frozen seafood on hand for this purpose. If I'm using a non-spicy broth, I might toss in some sort of chili paste or other.
Chicken bullion, soy sauce, msg, sesame oil, garlic, and a lot of hot chile. I kinda of just like hot. I want my nose running and eyes watering so much I can’t really taste anything, or if I can that’s not what I’m paying attention to.
Some dried mushrooms, ground ginger, onion powder, and a stock cube all ground up in the spice grinder. Then just add to water. Maybe add a spoon of gochujang and/or miso.
It isn’t exactly what you’re asking for, but here’s how I prepare those instant lamen packages when I don’t have frozen broth:
brown the meat in the pot that I’m going to use with the lamen. Reserve.
add ginger, sesame seeds, and brown sugar to the pot. Let them caramelise a bit, and add the rest of the seasoning (garlic, soy sauce, pepper sauce, MSG, etc). Then water.
add vegs and let them cook. Aside cook the noodles and probably boil some eggs.
assemble everything.
So the “broth” is mostly the juice of the vegs and meat, soy sauce, vinegar and condiments. It isn’t exactly flavourful, but good enough.
If I had to improve it I’d probably use a chicken bouillon (for any land meat) or powdered dashi (for fish lamen). And perhaps half of a package of flavourless gelatine, for texture. (Some people might use miso instead. My body does not handle it well so I don’t even have it, but it’s an option for you.)
Sometimes I also add half a sheet of nori, as kombu is hard to find where I live. Taste-wise it’s good, but be aware that you’ll get some “nori fragments” at the bottom, I don’t mind but the texture isn’t exactly great.
I don’t have an exact recipe, but my wife likes to add Perilla or Sesame oil to ramyun broth. We want to try truffle oil but we can’t find it in any of the asian groceries in our area. Oh and dashi and/or miso are definitely what I would use if I made broth from scratch.
Thanks! Perilla and truffle oil would be so good. I usually add a little sesame oil and soy sauce in most ramyun as well. I did try making Gyudon (Japanese thin sliced beef over rice/noodles) recently using dashi. Turned out pretty good. Miso is definitely a staple, even just mixing some paste with water for a quick soup.
One day I may try making an actual ramen broth but that takes forever, lol. I’m thinking about doing just a simple garlic and ginger fry and adding in chicken broth, sesame oil, and soy sauce for a quick Shoyu style broth. Probably experiment with everything you mentioned as well. Thanks!
Yeah, dashi is basically my cheat code. lol. When trying various mixes of soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, onions, etc., adding dashi just automatically makes it taste complete.
Another thing we “discovered” was using the *don (i.e. oyakodon, gyudon, etc.) sauce recipe to make a thick broth for tsukemen (dipping noodles), and it works! We just add a little more water than usual so it’s more like thick soup in consistency rather than sauce. And the recipe being soy sauce, mirin, sake, sugar/honey.
I buy chicken/beef bouillon powder and use that with dry noodles. You can make a mushroom broth by steeping dried mushrooms in hot water for 15-30 minutes, too.
Someone else mentioned daishi, that’s a great soup base as well. If you wanna spend a little more time on it, you can boil kombu and dried anchovies placed in a tea bag in a pot of water to make a larger batch of broth.
Thank you! The kombu and dried anchovies sounds amazing! And I love mushrooms, and often put that into my ramyun, but didn’t even think of making a mushroom broth. Thanks!
Happily! Just make sure to remove the guts of the anchovies before using them for stock. It’s easily done with a knife or even your fingers. Honestly, I’m not sure why you have to do that, I was just always instructed to do it that way.
Miso paste, dashi powder, chicken buillion powder, sesame oil, soy sauce, chili powder or oil, and a raw egg.
Mix well, combine with noodles reserving cooking water. Mix to thoroughly coat noodles. Add reserved cooking water to desired consistency.
You can skip or adjust any ingredients as you prefer. It is easy to make it too salty though. I would say it is most important to keep the egg in there. It helps get the consistency and thickness of a proper broth.
Pizza! We make a “Dragon Breath” pizza that has mushrooms, anchovies, garlic, and onion (alternative would be green onions or shallots). It’s delicious! We’ve also made variations with spinach, feta cheese, or anything that’s available. We use the full anchovies on top of the pizza.
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