Wanted Pho ... but sor'ta ... made Ramen? (Photos)

Note to purists. This mess has been heavily edited to correct many errors in judgment and content on my part.




I decided to make round eyed guy Pho tonight. Turns out it might be some sort of bastardized ramen. OK, the truth is I had some Baby Bok Choy and had everything else to go with it so this seemed to be the best direction to take with my ingredients.

For whatever this is, you will need:

Chicken Breast - 1/8 - 1/4 inch sliced across grain
Chicken stock (Chinese brand)
Noodles - I had some ramen so (unflavored) ramen it was
Ginger - one slice in my broth
Garlic - sliced thin
Celery - julienned
Onion - not shown, but used - julienned
Carrot - thin slices
Green Beans - steamed
Baby Bok Choy - julienned some stems and trimmed and steamed some whole ones
A boiled egg - should have been soft boiled, but it wasn't. If this disappoints you, I am sorry.

I show a container of corn starch in my photo, but did not use it in the dish.



First I made my broth. A little of this broth mix goes a long way in a pan of boiling water. I have no idea what the directions on the can say because they are in Chinese, but I add slowly in small portions and taste my way to a good flavorful broth. At around five bucks, that can will make gallons and gallons of broth, just like your egg drop tastes from the buffet at Ding How or Fortune Garden.



Then I prepped my chicken breast.



And my vegetables



And now we cook

To help my broth to taste the way I like I added a 1/8 inch thick piece of Ginger and allowed it to simmer for maybe ten minutes, tasted the broth and removed the ginger.

Now the chicken goes into a hot skillet with a little oil and a small splash of soy sauce.



I quickly cooked the first side (maybe two minutes) and then added a splash of the chicken broth and turned the pieces.



Then the vegetables. Garlic and celery first.



Then the other vegetables



I added a little more broth to this and then the lid to steam my vegetables and dropped the ramen into the boiling broth.

After about four minutes I set up our bowls.



Pretty good looking (Whatever it wound up being). The taste was nice. too.

All my stuff