Name: Vegan ramen
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves; thumb-sized piece ginger sliced, plus a few slices cut into fine matchsticks to serve (optional); 1½ tbsp white miso paste; 1 tbsp neri goma (white sesame paste) or tahini; 15g dried shiitake mushrooms; 1l good-quality vegan stock; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 200g firm tofu cut into chunky cubes; 1 tbsp cornflour; 1 tbsp veg or sunflower oil; 100g (2 x nests) ramen or rice noodles; 1 head pak choi quartered; 2 spring onions finely sliced, white and green parts kept separate; 25g ready-to-eat beansprouts; 1 carrot peeled and cut into fine matchsticks; sesame oil sriracha, chopped coriander, crushed peanuts, crumbled sheets of nori or dried chilli threads (silgochu), to serve (optional)

Vegan ramen

Enjoy this vegan ramen for a tasty midweek meal in just 25 minutes. Dried mushrooms and miso paste give the broth plenty of umami flavour

25 min total 10 min prep 15 min cook 2 556 cal

Instructions

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1 Crush the garlic with the back of a big knife, then put it in a saucepan with the ginger, miso, neri goma, mushrooms, stock and soy. Bring to a gentle simmer, cover and bubble for 5 mins until the ginger is soft. Strain into a clean pan and discard everything left in the strainer.
2 Meanwhile, cook the tofu. Toss it in the cornflour and heat the oil in a frying pan. Fry for a few mins on each side, being careful as you turn it that it doesn’t fall apart. Cook the noodles for 1 min less than pack instructions, so they retain a little bite. Drain and leave in the pan with a little cooking water so they don’t stick together.
3 Add the pak choi and whites of the spring onions to the broth and gently reheat for 1-2 mins until the greens have just wilted.
4 Divide the noodles between two deep bowls, ladle over the broth and veg. Top with the tofu, beansprouts, carrot and ginger matchsticks, green parts of the spring onions and a drizzle of sesame oil, plus the other toppings, if you like.