10 Minute Meal

Total Time: 9 mins Preparation Time: 6 mins Cook Time: 3 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• ramen noodles, as many packages as needed
• 1 1/2 cups water or 1 1/2 cups chicken stock, per package of noodles
• onion, chopped (green, red, yellow, , pearl, sweet, leeks, chives or shallot)
• carrot (finely chopped, thinly sliced, or julienne, baby carrots work very well)
• celery (finely chopped or thinly sliced)
• mushroom (of whatever sort, thinly sliced, fresh, tinned, or dried)
• bell pepper, finely chopped (a mix of colors adds to the visual appeal)
• fresh yams or fresh sweet potato, julienne and cut to very thin bite size
• cherry tomatoes, quartered
• sausage (kielbasa, bratwurst, mettwurst, pepperoni, genoa, what have you, cut into thin bite-size bits)
• cold cuts beef (lamb, lamb, ham, chicken or turkey, cut bite size)
• bacon, crumbled
• meatballs (crumbled or cut bite size) or meatloaf (crumbled or cut bite size)
• beef jerky, cut thinly across the grain
• cooked fish (fresh or tinned, anything but lobster, there are no recipes for leftover lobster, there's never any) or shell fish, clams, oysters, mussels, crawdads, s callops, etc (fresh or tinned, anything but lobster, there are no recipes for leftover lobster, there's never any)
• cheese (of every persuasion, grated, shredded, crumbled or cut into small cubes, ramen with green onions and)
• soy sauce, worcestershire, tamari, hot, barbecue (i prefer cholulla hot sauce)
• mustard, horseradish, etc. (anything i may have missed? check your fridge and pantry, you'll find something)
• salt & freshly ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 bring the water or stock to a boil in a sauce pan.
• 2 open the noodles.
• 3 if you like playing with long noodles leave them as is, if not break them into more manageable lengths (throw away the little 'flavor packet' of unpronounceable chemicals).
• 4 when pan boils, add the noodles and any options you desire and cook, covered for 3 minutes.
• 5 add any cooked fish or shellfish after the noodles are done to avoid overcooking it.
• 6 flavor with any sauce(s) you wish.
• 7 that's it start to table in 10 minutes.