Ramen Flavour Bomb: Katsuobushi Salt
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5 minutes prep time
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1 minutes cook time
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Easy
Published this month, Ivan Orkin's book Ivan Ramen is a personal account of opening a hugely successful ramen restaurant in Tokyo. Ramen recipes are never simple - always including at least 3 or for 'sub-recipes' to bring added layers of flavour and texture: the famous soy-sauce pickled nitamago egg, menma pickled bamboo shoots, chashu pork, bitter black garlic oil, and more... Yet Ivan's book is the first place we've seen the simple idea of blending together toasted bonito flakes and salt to create a spoonable seasoning.
Umami and sodium rich, the katsuobushi magically lifts a dish. Spoon a little over ramen, or really anywhere else at all - instead of anchovies in a lamb dish, a few teaspoons in a winter vegetable soup, and so on.
Have you seen katsuobushi salt anywhere else? What would you use it in?
Ingredients Serves: 4
- 10g Katsuobushi bonito flakes
- 10g Kosher salt
Method
- Toast the bonito flakes under a hot grill for 30 seconds, or until starting to brown. Blend together with the salt to form a fine powder.
- Store in the fridge in an airtight container.
