How do you like your eggs? Different people like their eggs done differently, even within the family. Take boiled eggs for example. My husband and I love boiled eggs with yolks in their glorious gooey form while my son likes his fully cooked. Even my parents have different preferences. Obviously I take after my mom. So how do you like yours?
When I was working back home, my (ex-)colleagues and I love to go to this Japanese ramen restaurant for lunch. One of the reason is because the huge sign outside their shop claims that their ramen soup base contains collagen. Yay, drink up all the soup! The other reason is because each bowl of ramen comes with my favorite ni-tamago, or some call it lava egg. Ni-tamago is very easy to prepare but needs to be prepared in advance to allow the eggs time to soak in the sauce.
Here’s the recipe for ni-tamago, taken from My Culinary Journal. Enjoy!
NI-TAMAGO (LAVA EGGS)
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs (or any number of eggs you want)
- 4 tablespoon soy sauce
- 4 tablespoon mirin
- 12 tablespoon water
Method:
- Mix soy sauce, mirin and water together in a small pot. Bring to boil then remove from heat and set aside to let it cool.
- Keep the eggs in the refrigerator until you are ready to cook them.
- In a separate pot, add water (enough to cover eggs) and bring to boil. Once the water comes to a rolling boil, take the eggs out of the fridge and gently put them in the pot of boiling water. Boil the eggs for 7 minutes.
- Remove pot from heat, drain and transfer the eggs into a pot of ice water. Leave the eggs in the ice water bath for 30 minutes.
- Carefully peel the shell of the eggs and leave them to soak in the soy sauce mixture, turning occasionally, for at least 4 hours, or overnight if you can.
- Carefully cut the eggs in half and serve with your favorite ramen.
