10 Easy And Delicious Meals With Ramen Noodles
Ramen noodles are the epitome of easy and inexpensive college meals. The all-around loved noodles can be used to create simple yet delicious meals that you’ll be thinking about all day. Grab your ramen noodles and a pot of boiling water because I have ten delicious meals you’ll be dying to make as soon as possible!
1. Vegetable Ramen
Ingredients:
- Ramen Noodles
- An Assortment of vegetables like carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, etc.
- Bone Broth
- Soy sauce or sriracha to taste
Boil your ramen noodles in a pot for five to ten minutes. Use a skillet to heat up the vegetables and pour in some bone broth for extra protein that the veggies can boil in. When the noodles are ready and your veggies are cooked to taste, place both noodles and veggies in the same skillet to put in soy sauce and sriracha to taste! Add in any spices and put your healthy veggie ramen in a bowl because it is ready to eat!
2. Garlic Parmesan Ramen
Ingredients:
- Ramen Noodles
- Broccoli and Mushrooms
- Garlic Salt
- Grated Parmesan Cheese
Boil Ramen in a pot for five to ten minutes. Oil up broccoli and mushrooms making sure you evenly apply garlic salt to all pieces. Once the veggies are prepared, heat them up in a skillet and add in noodles as well.
While both are heating up, add the Grated parmesan cheese so it’ll melt on all parts of the noodles and veggies. When they’re all heated and melted, you’ll be ready to serve!
3. Thai Peanut Chicken Ramen
Ingredients:
- 4 Cups Low Sodium Chicken Broth
- 1 can (14 ounces) Coconut Milk
- 1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup Thai red curry paste
- 3/4 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast
- 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
- 2 red bell peppers, chopped
- 1-inch fresh ginger, grated
- 1 clove garlic, minced or grated
- Ramen noodles
- juice of one lime
- 3 cups fresh baby spinach
- chopped peanuts and toasted sesame oil (for serving)
This meal will take a total of thirty minutes of cooking time and will leave your mouth watering, not only because it is spicy but because of its easy delicious taste! You can use an instant pot for this recipe or you can use a skillet to cook the chicken and veggies and a food processor for the sauce. It will end up looking more like soup!
If you don’t have an instant pot or food processor then you will probably want to buy the Thai peanut sauce at the store. Trader Joes has a spicy peanut vinaigrette and a satay peanut sauce that you can use!
4. Ramen Noodle Salad
Ingredients:
- Spinach greens
- Boiled egg
- Ramen
- Salt and Pepper
- A spicy dressing, creamy, or another favorite dressing of yours!
Start with your foundation: the spinach. Then add in the boiled egg cut up, and smashed ramen noodles just as they are in their dry state. Grind salt and pepper onto the salad and add your dressing! Mix up the salad and you are ready for eating!
5. Ramen Veggie Stir Fry
Ingredients:
- Ramen noodles
- 1 cup frozen peas and carrots
- 4 green onions, diced
- 2 eggs
- Soy sauce
- Sesame oil (can sub in for canola oil)
- salt and pepper
Boil the ramen noodles for five to ten minutes and then draining and rinsing them with cool water. Get out a skillet and sauté the frozen peas, carrots and green onions for about ten minutes.
Scramble the eggs and place them into the same skillet with the peas, carrots and green onion. Add the cooked ramen noodles and soy sauce to taste into the skillet. grate some salt and pepper and when everything is cooked and looking ready then it is time to bowl and enjoy!
6. Seafood Ramen
Ingredients:
- Ramen
- Shrimp or salmon
- Veggies of your liking!
- sriracha and soy sauce to taste
Boil the ramen for five to ten minutes as usual while you are cooking up salmon and shrimp to your liking! Shrimp can be done in a skillet and salmon can be done in an oven or a skillet.
Cook your veggies to your liking in a different skillet from the seafood. When the ramen is ready, place in the same skillet as the veggies and put in salt, pepper, and sriracha, soy sauce or both!
When your seafood and ramen are ready, place the ramen and veggies on a plate and over the top place your nicely cooked salmon or shrimp! You are then ready for a mouth-watering meal!
7. Spicy Sriracha Ramen
Ingredients:
- Ramen
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
- 1 cup white spring onions
- 2-3 tablespoons tomato paste/ puree
- 3-5 tablespoons sriracha sauce
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon vinegar
- 2-3 cups vegetable broth
For the finishing touches:
- Soft boiled egg
- Green spring onion
- few sliced Jalapeno peppers
Heat the sesame oil in a large saucepan with minced garlic. Once heated, saute the chopped white spring onions and add the tomato puree/ paste into the saucepan stirring regularly. Pour in the 1/2 cup vegetable broth (or any other kind of broth) mixing the ingredients together.
Add in the sriracha and soy sauce with another blending and let it boil. As soon as the mixture has boiled add in the ramen. When the ramen is all cooked for five to ten minutes add it to a bowl and place the garnishes on top. Enjoy!
8. Garlic Butter Ramen
Ingredients:
- Ramen
- Garlic salt
- Butter
Boil the Ramen for five to ten minutes with a pinch of garlic salt. Once fully cooked through, rinse with cool water and put your noodles in a bowl! You can either heat up your butter in a microwave or just take some butter and put a square into the noodles mixing it around. Put in garlic salt and you’re all set!
9. Vegan Curry Ramen
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 1 cup sugar snap peas
- 8 ounces sliced mushrooms
- 1-3 tablespoons red curry paste
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons minced ginger
- 6 cups vegetable broth
- 13.5 ounces coconut milk
- Ramen
- juice of 1 lime
- Salt and pepper
This meal will take a total time of 20 minutes until yummy vegan curry ramen! Start with a large saucepan or pot. Put in your sesame oil, carrots, snap peas and mushrooms and mix them all around. Then put in your red curry paste, curry powder, garlic, and minced ginger and mix it all up!
Mix together the coconut milk and veggie broth to a boil. Add in the ramen for five to ten minutes. As soon as the ramen is fully cooked through, the pot is ready to take off the heat! pour yourself some of this yummy vegan curry ramen!
10. Ramen Noodle Soup
Ingredients:
- Cooking oil
- mushrooms
- minced garlic
- 1/2 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
- 1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
- Vegetable or chicken or bone broth
- Ramen
Heat the cooking oil in a stockpot or saucepan and add the mushrooms to cook for about four minutes. Stir in the garlic and ginger to cook for another minute or so. Add in the soy sauce and stir for another three minutes until the mushrooms are soft.
Stir in the vegetable broth until it reaches a boil when you can finally add in the ramen noodles. Once the ramen is fully cooked garnish the end result with shredded carrots, scallions, hard-boiled eggs, and toasted sesame seeds! Now you’re ready for serving!
Ramen noodles are easy to find at the grocery store and can create simple yet delicious meals your mouth will be undoubtedly watering for! I hope these 10 different ways to cook ramen for a yummy meal will catch your eye! If you have a special and delicious ramen noodle recipe share it with us in the comments!
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