Menma (Bamboo Shoots for Ramen)

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  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 30mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    8
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    26

A popular Japanese condiment, menma, or bamboo shoots, is used for topping noodle soups like ramen in Japan. Menma is traditionally dried and fermented, but here tinned bamboo is used to speed up the process so your bamboo shoots can be used on the day of making. Flavoured with sake, ginger, garlic, and katsuobushi (dried, smoked fish flakes), these are a must for your next ramen bowl. Menma can be served immediately or refrigerated up to one week.

recipe updated 6 Nov 2023

Ingredients

  • Bamboo shoot icon
    Bamboo shoot
    400 g
  • Garlic clove icon
    Garlic clove
    2
  • Ginger icon
    Ginger
    10 g
  • Water icon
    Water
    800 g
  • Rice wine vinegar icon
    Rice wine vinegar
    30 g
  • Sake icon
    Sake
    60 g
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    ½ teaspoon
  • Katsuobushi icon
    Katsuobushi
    3 g

Tools

  • kCook icon kCook Multi
  • kCook icon Medium bowl

Step preview

  1. Fit the Stir Tool
  2. Add water into the appliance bowl, attach the lid
  3. Heat - 3 minutes, 105ºC
  4. Add katsuobushi, attach the lid with the filler cap fitted
  5. Let steep – 10 minutes
  6. Strain liquid into a medium bowl
  7. Transfer the liquid back into the appliance bowl
  8. Add the next ingredients
  9. Cook – 3 minutes, 110ºC, speed 3
  10. Cook – 10 minutes, 98ºC, speed 3
  11. Let cool at room temperature – 1 hour
  12. Serve
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