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Birria Ramen is AMAZING!
Whoever thought about adding ramen to birria is a genius and deserves a medal!
This soup is full of flavor, tender meat, and noodles to slurp.
Add some lime, onion and cilantro, and be ready to blow your taste buds away.
More Mexican Pasta Recipes:
Espagueti Verde
Sopa de Fideo
Ensalada de Coditos
Fideo Seco
How to Make the Sauce
- Rehydrate the chiles
- Add the rehydrated chiles and spices into a blender.
- Blend until smooth.
This recipe is perfect for leftover Birra de Res.
Another great idea is make the sauce ahead of time. It freezes extremely well and up to 6 months.
Or, keep it in the fridge for up to 5 days.
More Mexican Beef Recipes:
Beef Tamales
Barbacoa de Res
Fideo con Carne
Caldo de Res
How to Cook the Beef
- Sear the meat.
- Place the meat in a slow cooker.
- Pour the sauce over the meat.
- Cook until fork tender.
No slow cooker? No problemo. Here are other cooking instructions.
Instant Pot Instructions:
- Press saute.
- Add oil and sear meat on all sides.
- Add sauce.
- Add lid and close vent.
- Press High Pressure. 45 minutes.
- Quick release the vent.
Stove Top Instructions:
- Seat the meat in a stock pot.
- Pour sauce and broth over the meat.
- Cook for 2 hours, or until fork tender.
These are the ingredients you will need to make the ramen soup.
You can use whatever ramen you prefer. However, Tapatio Ramen comes with a spicy package that has similar spices to the ones used to make the consommé broth.
FYI: The spice package will make your soup spicy.
- Open up the ramen container.
- Ladle the consommé broth over the dried ramen.
- Add the chopped up birria.
- Cover and let sit until noodles are soft. About 5 minutes.
Shred the beef before assembling your soup. That way your broth doesn’t get cold. You want the beef to fit your spoon.
The trick here to use really hot broth. If not, the noodles will not soften. After 5 minutes, if your noodles are not soften, add some boiling water.
Pro Tip:
Make the soup without the spice package. Add some of the spice package little by little until you reach the desired heat level.Personally, I only use half of the package because the soup turns out REALLY spicy.
Ideas for Toppings:
- Diced onions
- Chopped Cilantro
- Radishes
- Lime juice
Birria Ramen will be your new favorite soup. Comforting, satisfying, and DELICIOUS!
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Table of Contents
Birria Ramen
Ingredients
For the Sauce:
- 4 cups water
- 5 dried guajillo chiles (stems and seeds removed)
- 2 dried ancho chiles (stems and seeds removed)
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 2 cloves
- ¼ cinnamon stick
- 1 tablespoon beef bouillon
- 2 bay leaves
For the Beef:
- 2 lb chuck roast
- salt and pepper (to taste)
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
To Assemble:
- 6 Tapatio Ramen (containers)
Toppings:
- Lime Juice (optional)
- Diced Onion (optional)
- Cilantro (optional)
- Radishes (optional)
Instructions
For the Sauce:
- Boil 1 cup of water to hydrate the dried chiles.
- While the water is boiling, remove the stems and seeds from the chiles.
- Place the chiles in the hot water.
- Turn off the heat.
- Place a lid on the pot and let stand for 5 minutes, or until chiles are pliable.
- Add all the spices and rehydrated chiles into a blender.
- Add 3 cups of water.
- Blend until smooth.
- Strain the sauce and set aside until ready to use.
To Cook the Beef:
- Heat oil in a large stock pot.
- Season the beef on both sides with salt and pepper.
- Sear the beef on all sides.
- Place the seared beef and sauce in a slow cooker on low for 6 to 8 hours.
To Assemble Birria Ramen Soup:
- Chop up the beef and return to the pot to keep warm.
- Open up Tapatio container.
- Ladle over the dried noodles birria broth until completely covered.
- Add beef.
- Return the lid to the top and set aside for 5 minutes, or until noodles have softened.
- Sprinkle in some of the container spice package until you reach desired heat level.
- Stir to combine.
- Top with your favorite toppings and enjoy!
Video
Notes
- Press saute.
- Add oil and sear meat on all sides.
- Add sauce.
- Add lid and close vent.
- Press High Pressure. 45 minutes.
- Quick release the vent.
- Seat the meat in a stock pot.
- Pour sauce and broth over the meat.
- Cook for 2 hours, or until fork tender.
- After 1 hour of cooking, add 1 cup of beef broth.
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I can’t resist to such a delicious and flavorful ramen. A must try it for sure!
It’s delicious. Hope you try it!
I always enjoy ramen. It’s just so good. I’d love to have that today because it’s kind of chilly.
Perfect for chilly weather! Hope you try it
This looks really good. The flavor sure does sound amazing too. We love ramen dishes in our house.
Looks and tastes good! Hope you try it
Wow! Absolutely delicious! I tried birria ramen for the first time at a vendor event and was hooked, since then the vendor hasn’t been back and I can’t find birria ramen anywhere. I found this recipe and immediately went to buy the ingredients. So happy I did! Great recipe! Thank you for sharing. I see this recipe becoming a family fave for sure!
That just made my day! So glad you enjoyed it.
This looks amazing! We love spicy ramen, the spicier the better! Can’t wait to try.
Then you”ll love this recipe!
I love ramen! It tastes so good and thanks for sharing this. I’m actually looking for ramen recipes!
Hope you try it! Glad you liked it
This recipe is Great!! Easy to follow and so good!! I wasn’t sure where the bay leaf was supposed to go so I left it out of the sauce and put it in with the meat, whole. I also threw in a quarter of an onion with the bay leaves. Used prepackaged ramen noodles that you just boil but no sauce packs or mixins. I diluted the salsa broth a little since it’s on the saucier side but this was as I made my bowl of ramen. Now I don’t have to pay $12+ for 1 bowl, I can literally get it for $5 or less!! Love it!!
Using prepackaged ramen noodles without the sauce packets is a clever way to customize the dish to your liking. Glad you enjoyed it!
One of my friends will love this super spicy ramen noodles recipe. Thanks for sharing.
So glad you enjoyed this Nikki! Hope you try it
That ramen looks really delicious, and I will definitely try that with my husband. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed this
Wow! This looks so good. I’m a huge ramen fan.
So glad you enjoyed this
What a delicious-sounding ramen. I do like spicy food.
Hope you try it!
This recipe looks really savory and flavorful. Looking forward to giving this recipe a try.
Hope you do. It’s delicious!
My stomach just growled. I love ramen and this looks incredible.
So glad you enjoyed this! Hope you try it
Oh Gosh, this sounds so good. I love the flavors and simplicity. Saving this on my list to try. Thanks for the lovely dinner idea!
So glad you enjoyed this!
A hearty bowl of flavorful ramen sounds like a treat! My kids just love ramen, and this seems just the recipe for them! Can’t wait to surprise my kids with this!
They will love this recipe!
Love the flavors in this ramen! Yum!
So glad you enjoyed this!
You can’t go wrong with ramen, beef, and this amazing spicy broth! My mouth was on fire in the best way. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
So glad you enjoyed this!
I like the way you cook your beef…
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed this!
Lush dinner recipe full of flavour and the beef is fantastic 🙂
It is indeed. Hope you try this recipe
A deliciously different way to enjoy my ramen! Thanks!
So glad you enjoyed this!
Ramen is so delicious! I love this ramen recipe because it’s so full of flavor!
I think so too, delicious. Glad you liked it!
Oh how delicious and full of flavour!
So glad you enjoyed this!