How to make Top Ramen healthy

giggitygoo

Fresh ramen noodles are super cheap at Asian grocers. Again, I'm in Los Angeles ... so a little spoiled by ethnic groceries

gaylebodine

Oh, thanks so much! I love ramen, especially like you described with chicken pieces, vegis and bullion. So how do you enter the calories/sodium/etc. That is all that is keeping me from going to have some now.

oxers

Yeeeah, instant ramen is kind of an abomination. If I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna go all out and make real ramen. It's an all day affair, but it's completely worth it and probably won't raise my blood pressure by six points, either.

I don't understand why you'd eat instant ramen if you're not stretching a very tight budget? Like.. if you REALLY like it, okay, fine, but the noodles are crap, the spice blend is crap, the whole thing is just. I don't know. Terrible ingredients don't make good food. The first time you have real, street style Japanese ramen, you'll never be able to look at the packet **** again.

acpgee

If you eat instant ramen, you can save a lot of calories by looking for types that use rice noodles or bean vermicelli instead. These noodles don't need to be fried to make them instant. My brand of bean vermicelli noodles (Vina Acecook) is only 189 kcal per package, including the little packet of garlicky oil..

ge105

I agree with an earlier post. Just buy some egg noodles and season them up however you like.

Or just make it fit under your calorie limit and enjoy it if you really must have it.

Isn't it like 380 calories (for two servings I might add)? Is that really so much that eating it is something you only do when you 'really must have it'? Ramen+4 ounces of chicken+an egg cracked into the both=Yum.

Winner. Its not that many calories if you like them- just don't have them be all you eat and you'll be fine.

StoneColdLiger

Would just like to say after reading this post, I went into the kitchen and made some Ramen.

(I mixed in summer sausage and frozen veggies)

I don't understand all the rules about you should eat this, shouldn't eat that. I just eat what I enjoy. Pretty much anything is fine in moderation.

pbbagel

Healthy ramen? Here's a thought...don't eat instant ramen. And, the Koreans didn't perfect ramen...the Japanese did. Veggies + Egg on top? That's a basic Japanese prep. Kimchi in ramen? No thanks. Give me a miso, shoyu or tonkotsu please. Kimchi fried rice is good though.

Instant ramen isn't technically ramen anyway.

Edit:

Ramen -

Not Ramen -

Instant ramen was invented in Japan...

TriNoob

Instant ramen was invented in Japan...

Instant noodles were invented in Japan...but anyway, what's your point?

_lyndseybrooke_

Ramen without the "packet of death" is simply not Ramen. That's like saying...oh, you can make Doritos healthier by running them under water to get the cheese off. Uh, ew, and no, Doritos (and Ramen) should be left as is. If it doesn't fit into your calories, don't eat it. If it does, party on. And as others have said, using regular non-Ramen noodles would work just fine.

Psht...throw away the seasoning. Blasphemy!

workshardplaysharder

There is nothing wrong with Ramen noodles. Just use half the seasoning. Sometimes I'll add some frozen peas and corn to it. I don't eat it often but when I am not in the mood to make anything and I want to eat something I make that because it's quick

pbbagel

Instant ramen was invented in Japan...

Instant noodles were invented in Japan...but anyway, what's your point?

Just to let you know.

dbmata

rinsing it won't do anything, that's silly.