11 EASY NEXT LEVEL RAMEN NOODLE RECIPES | EMERGENCY EXTREME BUDGET MEAL PREP 2020 | Cook With Me

welcome back friends to another budget meal video today i'll be sharing 11 recipes we will be tackling ramen ramen ramen whatever you call it let's get into the ingredients okay guys so these are the items that i'm going to be using the ones that are in the shopping list this was the package of ramen that i was talking about from dollar tree with five in it the beef flavor and these are the ones that i get from walmart well actually i get these from sam's in a big container so these are a different brand of course from this one but they're the same to me okay and this one just like i said was um two servings per container of noodles so they're pretty much the same um so this is of course chicken flavor and this is beef so i'm gonna be interchanging between the two it really doesn't matter so that's just what i'm gonna be doing and then here's my coconut milk here's my black beans these are my diced tomatoes and i just split it out of this um this 28 ounce container of diced tomatoes then here's my curry powder i have it i have a lot of curry powder and this is one that i split out of another container this is ground ginger because i don't have any fresh ginger right now and of course minced garlic because i don't have any fresh garlic then i have three eggs here if i need more i'll just grab them these are the mixed vegetables from walmart and this is the california style mix so this is a little different because it has broccoli cauliflower and carrots and i didn't have another walmart on frozen vegetables i had um the one from dollar tree so i'm going to be using that's the same thing and of course my butter well oh butter and then with this i'm going to be pulling out some of the vegetables i'm going to be separating the um i'm gonna be separating out some of the peas and some of the corn and with this one i'm gonna be separating the broccoli from the cauliflower and the beans i will be rinsing them i have my pot of water boiling while getting ready to boil and i'm gonna put about three packets of noodles in here once this boils and i'll just let it sit it doesn't have to cook it doesn't need to rehydrate because of the meals that we'll be making it just makes sense to rehydrate them if you cook them or you turn the water on and let them boil and walk away you will get mush if you're not careful so that's what we're gonna do so i'll be back okay so my water's boiling i'm gonna go ahead and turn it off and i've just moved it off of the burner so i'm just going to go ahead and throw in about three of these for now and then i'll throw the other ones in in a minute and i'll be back okay so i'm just stirring these around trying to hydrate them and once they hydrate i'm gonna put them in a bowl with cold water just so i can come back because i'm doing all these recipes in one day and then i'm gonna reserve some of the pasta water just in case i need it and we'll be back okay so here it is in the water there's ice in there and then i reserved some of the pasta water because i will be making suits and such and i may need this so i'm just holding on to some just in case so we're gonna go ahead and chop it and we'll proceed with the recipes all right okay so just in case you guys were wondering this is the broc the broccoli and the cauliflower split out of the bag so of course you have more cauliflower and broccoli and then of course i separated out my peas and my carrots so that's that so peas and carrots okay friends so we're gonna go into my everyday recipe this is something that is pretty generic it's nothing fancy but i like it so to my pot remember i'm just reheating the noodles and from there i'm adding the beef flavor packet beef is the one that i like the most usually i don't even have this much water in it but because i'm reheating it i'm gonna go ahead and add some complete seasoning and some hot sauce and all i'm doing is put it in the bowl and see there was too much water so it took the water back out i'm just going to let that sit for a while and then that's the way i like it but guess what i need some more hot sauce yes yes please more hot sauce the more hot sauce the better okay now we're gonna move into egg drop soup this is number two so to my pot i'm adding back in some water just to reheat and then of course i'm gonna add some of my chicken seasoning packet a little soy sauce some ginger remember i don't have fresh ginger and then i have sesame oil if you don't have it don't worry about it but you can always ask your local chinese restaurant if they have extra to send it with your next meal and then to that i'm just gonna add some beaten egg that was just one egg that i beat and i'm gonna stir it around now i could have taken it off the heat or stirred it slower but because i want my egg kind of cook and i like to have that meaty texture in there that's why i stirred and kept it on the heat as long as i did so to that i went ahead and added my noodles [Music] and here it is all plated up i just garnished it with a little bit of green onion because that's what i had on hand this was super delicious you must give it a try super cheap super delicious so let's move on to our next one which is a butter garlic ramen so to my pot i'm just adding some butter about a tablespoon or so you add as much as you want so we're going to try to brown this fake butter on down so i'm just going to let it go ahead and continue to simmer and then i'm just stirring it trying to keep an eye on it and i'm going to go ahead and add olive oil that helps it to continue to cook and brown without burning from there i'm going to go ahead and add some garlic but my pan gets super hot so of course i take it off the stove brought it back because burnt garlic is disgusting garlic so here i'm just stirring everything around and see it's got nice and brown to that i just went ahead and added my noodles and i'm just reheating everything these meals take less than five minutes to do [Music] so i'm just adjusting my heat i want to make sure that it's not going to get too hot and start burning and simple as that that meal is done you look for seasoned to taste if you feel like it needs anything else you'll go ahead and add it i'm just going to go ahead and make it cute for you guys so i just add a little parsley and a little bit of crushed red pepper and some parmesan now these i'm sure you have these in your shelf if you've ordered pizza lately then you have some so here we have it so this is our garlic butter ramen so let's move on to the next idea which is a spicy veggie noodle [Music] so to my pot i of course added more water and i'm gonna go with the beef packet this time so to my water i'm just adding some garlic i'm gonna add some of the liquid from the diced tomatoes and the diced tomatoes themselves i'm gonna add some cajun seasoning and i'm going to add some complete seasoning a little cayenne remember this one's spicy and then some frank's red hot you add whatever hot sauce you like if you don't like spicy you don't have to add it and then some crushed red pepper flakes remember this is spicy so we're just going to let that cook down a little and here i'm adding my frozen vegetables and this i want to have a soupy consistency so here i'm adding the chicken packet back in you can add beef you can add whatever you like as a matter of fact i think that might be beef so i'm adding some complete seasoning just stirring everything around simple quick and there's my noodles and then i'm just going to pour my concoction on top of the noodles this was super good super good great for fall great for winter and you have all your veggies so there we have it now let's move on to our next idea which will be chicken noodle with an egg on top so here to my pan i added a little bacon fat and i just went ahead and put one egg into the pan and i just wanted it to start to heat up and i'm going to take it off the stove and put it to the side and i'm going to keep the stove on very very low and it'll just continue to cook just a little so of course i'm adding water back in this time we're going with the chicken packet some complete seasoning and i'm adding a little garlic and then a little italian seasoning remember all the measurements and such will be down below then we're going to add in some our veggies some paprika for color stirring everything around chicken noodle soup without the chicken and here's that egg for protein and you can cook your egg as much as you want if you don't like it don't put it here but i'm trying to be fancy so of course i'm going to put some black pepper and a little bit of parsley and there you have it friends so let's move on to our next idea which is going to be a fiesta noodle here we have our water back in just to heat up and i'm going to use the beef packet this time i'm going to put a little bit of adobo and then some complete seasoning and i'm adding a little cumin so i'm going to add in some diced tomato a little bit of juice from that and you add as much or as little as you like [Music] and then my green sauce i'll have the recipe linked below so we're just going to stir that to heat it and then we're going to add in that corn that i separated and then the black beans and i'm just showing you what i have left over as far as the black beans you can use that in another recipe so here's my noodles and i'm just going to pour this over because the noodles just need to be reheated and this is hot enough for it so i'm just going to go ahead and garnish it with some cilantro and some green onion and make it all fancy for you guys so there we have it so let's move on to our next idea so this is going to be a stir-fry with egg strips so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go ahead and add to this pan a beaten egg and i'm going to try to flatten it out as much as i can this was the only thing that i could use at this time so i'm going to do is just heat this up and i'm going to move it off to the side and let it finish doing its thing into my pan i'm just going to go ahead and add a little oil a little sesame oil if you do not have sesame oil don't worry about it so i'm going to add my veggies and what i realized is that i could have just went ahead and used the california blend there was no need to have the cauliflower and the broccoli blend and i would have been just fine so save money and don't buy all of it if you don't need it so to my pan i'm adding soy sauce a little bit of water just to go ahead and get all those nice bits off the bottom somebody reminded me that that was fun so go ahead and add some garlic and then your ginger and a little bit more water because you don't want anything to burn but you don't want it to be saturated i'm adding a little more soy sauce a little onion powder stirring everything around and then we're going to add back in our noodles remember we do not want our noodles to overcook so we're just heating it through i'm going to add that chicken packet in and i'm only using half the packet for each one of these recipes and you'll do it to taste and then i'm adding more soy sauce and it's just that simple friends so here i'm going to deal with my eggs so i just pulled out my pizza cutter and all i'm doing is just cutting these eggs into strips this is something a little different give a little bit of a different type of texture but it is so good with this recipe and also it's a way to add protein if you don't have meat on hand so here i'm just plating everything up for you so you can see what it looks like super cute super fancy right who knew what you could do with a pack of 25 cent noodles so i'm just garnishing it with of course some green onion and some sesame seeds that still have leftover so there we have it let's move into our next idea which is going to be some curry noodles so here we go with our oil and that green sauce that i have and i'm going to add some garlic to this [Music] and i'm going to go ahead and start stirring everything around you want to keep everything moving but i want to cook this down a little so that i've added my curry so that it can cook with those seasonings so i've added some water because i don't want anything to burn and i want everything to incorporate so i'm going to add a little ginger a little complete seasoning and then you want to stir everything around make sure that you're managing your heat and there's my coconut milk there and you add as much or as little as you like remember we're only dealing with one serving of the noodles i didn't add too much a little black pepper for a little spice a little garlic powder stir it around curry and garlic is a must so i'm going to add in my cauliflower here and that's just for a little texture and it helps absorb some of that curry and that is so good so here i'm just adding a little water and my noodles back in heating it through and then once you get that coated then you're all done so here i'm just going to go ahead and plate it up for you and show you what it looks like super easy super delicious remember all these recipes can go with regular noodles or on top of a meat or whatever you have and then i just garnished it with a little crushed red pepper and some parsley all alright so let's move into our next idea which is a creamy coconut noodle so to my pan i just added a little bit of baking fat of course you're going to add that complete seasoning and you're also going to add some of that green seasoning i'll have the recipe linked down below and then you just want to let that simmer but you're going to keep it moving you're going to keep an eye on it and we're going to thin it out just a little bit to get rid of some of that liquid i freeze mine so there's a little bit of liquid that needs to come out and at the same time this will help to bring out all the flavors that's in this green seasoning so to my pan i'm going to go ahead and add my coconut milk and you add as much as you want but what we're going to do is we're going to reduce this down so there's going to be a lot of stirring that takes place here i have my panel like a medium high heat but i'm staying around to keep stirring this whole process is going to take about 10 minutes because you want to reduce this down and what's going to happen is that coconut milk is going to combine with that seasoning and it's going to be like a sweet savory taste it is so good so here i'm just adding a little black pepper just to season it so you'll season it to your taste i'm just making sure that i'm stirring and scraping the bottom and i'm going to check my consistency once i get it to the thickness that i like then i'll go ahead and add my noodles i'm just scraping the bottom of the pan making sure that everything's moving and nothing's sticking all right so once i get it to where i want it then i'm going to add in my noodles there i've added in my noodles i'm just going to go ahead and stir everything around i want to be careful not to play with the noodles too much because i don't want them to become mushy but i do want them to get heated through and i do want them to get some of that creaminess so i just added less than a tablespoon of butter just to add to the creaminess of this dish this was so good this would be great on like a fish or with some shrimp and some pasta oh my god this is delicious but this was delicious as is as you can see all those bits of herbs from that seasoning so good so let's move on to our next recipe so i'm going to do a carbonara style ramen so here i have beaten an egg just one egg and i have the store-bought grated parmesan if you have the fancy stuff then go ahead and add it but this is what i have so this is what we're going to use and like i said you know your local pizza place will have it for you so it's easy to get to so to my pan i added some bacon fat and i'm going to add a little butter because i want to make sure that this stays creamy so to my butter and oil mixture i went ahead and added a little water and you want a little less water than what i have in here but this is what i was working with because i was under the gun so there i'm just tempering my egg by putting a little bit of that heated water into the egg and then i put in my peas and then i pulled the pot back off the stove because there's enough heat here to cook the eggs so you want to make sure you're stirring vigorously until the egg produces like a creamy texture and then i'm adding more parmesan cheese because you can't have enough parmesan here and it's just that simple and i'm just mixing everything around and then i'm going in and adding a little bit of that chicken flavored packet and you're going to stir it around and taste for seasoning and here i'm plating it with a slotted spoon because remember i had too much liquid but it was just fine the way it was it was super tasty and the sauce thickens up on you as you let it sit so if you're going to let it sit for a while maybe you do need all that liquid but i didn't need because i was gonna eat it right then so i just added some parsley and i added some bacon bits i had in the fridge if you don't have that then don't use it as perfect as is but why not add whatever you have in your refrigerator here with these meals so for our last recipe we're going to be doing a tomato and broccoli ramen into my pot i'm just adding a little oil and i added a little garlic and butter i'm going to add a little italian seasoning and i'm pulling out some ketchup packets this is gonna help to balance out that tart from the diced tomatoes so i'm just stirring everything around make sure everything is incorporated so here's my diced tomatoes i'm just going to go ahead and finish this off so i'm going to go ahead and stir everything around and then i'm going to put a cover on here and i'm going to let it sit and i'm going to let it simmer for about five to 10 minutes to reduce some of that liquid and to make sure everything is incorporated so then i'm going to add some onion powder a little bit of complete seasoning if you don't have complete seasoning you can use the um chicken packet on its own i'm going to go ahead and add a little parsley and just stir everything around and then i'm just bringing in my frozen broccoli i'm just going to stir everything around really quickly and there i had the crushed red peppers from domino's and you just want it to heat through no need to really cook anything here so here's my noodles and i went ahead and just put my um tomato and broccolis over top [Music] and then i pulled out some parmesan from domino's and sprinkled it on top and this smelled like a pizza in a bowl it was so so good nice and spicy nice and warm so guys there you have it 11 ramen ideas for when you're low on a budget but you have stuff in the freezer or fridge guys thank you so much as always for joining me i hope you're having a fantastic day please be sure to share comment and subscribe and until the next video guys bye

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Length: 21min 5sec (1265 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 06 2020