Cooking Journey: Special instant noodle

Hello folks, Lazcht here. This is obviously not a gamedev blog, nor cooking game article, it is actual cooking recipe sharing.

Like i said in my introduction blog post, i love to cook for myself sometimes for family too (if the menu is tolerable enough for them lol, parents aren't into western menus). I browse much recipe on internet and watch Youtube cooking videos sometimes to get inspirations, now i think this time i'll try to share a random recipe, not something really unique but oh well i hope it's helpful anyway. :P

I cook a lot of instant noodles when i feel lazy, and it's the BEST LAZY MENU for midnight meal, agreed? ;D Anyone can easily cook them, but ever try to make it a little bit..."special"? 

Loving instant noodle, aren't we all?

Most people said instant noodles are unhealthy, so then let's try a little bit to make it less-unhealthy, haha.

This is how i cook instant noodle when i don't really into plain instant noodle (this is laziness level 1; when i still bother doing some effort to make non-mediocre meal). I won't tell the portion/measurement in detail on each ingredients, coz people have their own preference.

Special Soup Instant Noodle

Difficulty : Too Easy

Ready in: Approx. 15 Min.

Ingredients and preparations:

Corn starch

1. Instant noodle (Soup)
2. Some white mushrooms (?), or can be replaced by shiitake mushrooms, rinsed, break into some pieces.
3. Beansprouts (as needed) rinsed.
4. Garlics. (1~3 cloves)
5. Corn starch, mixed with some water.
6. Green onion, rinsed, chopped, fried onions. (optional)
7. Sweet soy sauce, salt. (optional)

Directions:

1. Boil water like usual, put noodles in when water already boiled.

2. While you wait, get some garlic, peel, and chop them into little pieces.

    
Learning from Cooking Mama, this is how you chop/cut garlic, easy way haha, it works plus it's fun, careful though. 

chopping result

3. Don't forget to pay attention to your noodles, when they're ready, drain them and split fairly~ (if you cook for multiple serving), add vegetable oil then stir if you don't want it to stick together.

thicken soup

4. Now prepare the soup, put (desired amount for soup) water on pot, add the chopped garlic, add mushroom or if you like to add carrots, you'll want to add it now, boil with medium heat. If you put lot of water, consider to put some salt too.
5. Put instant noodle's seasoning to the pot, stir until the soup boiling, SMELLS GOOD ain't it?

6. Beansprout time now, add to pot, stir until it goes a tad transparent, add  some sweet soy sauce now (amount as necessary). Taste the soup, make it a little bit more strong because your noodle is unseasoned.

7. Lower the heat, now time to thicken the soup. Stir the corn starch once again before you put it to the pot, and remember to keep stirring it while you pour it to the soup. If you feel it's not enough thick, repeat the process until you feel it right, don't be too thick or it would be too sticky, yuck. I usually aimed the thickness like curry's thickness.

8. Turn off the stove, pour the soup to the noodle, yup, almost done.
9. Put green onions to make it more fancy, or if you like, fried onions.

Result!

Yesh! Time to eat.
Posting this... kind of make me drooling. Damn.

And that's it folks, thanks for visiting and reading!

~Laz out!