Quick Bun Rieu (Crab Meat Ball Noodle Soup).
You can cook Quick Bun Rieu (Crab Meat Ball Noodle Soup) using 28 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Quick Bun Rieu (Crab Meat Ball Noodle Soup)
- Prepare of meat balls.
- You need 1 lb of shrimp (shell, devein and finely chop).
- Prepare 1 lb of ground pork.
- It's 2 of eggs, beaten.
- You need 1 tsp of black pepper and salt.
- Prepare 3 of scallion (finely chop).
- Prepare 1 tbsp of red boat fish sauce.
- It's 1 can of fresh crab meat (prefer lump).
- It's of soup.
- It's 2 of lemon grass, discard green part. Use white part and cut into 3 inch stalks and bruise.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of tomato paste.
- It's 4 of tomatoes, quartered.
- Prepare 2 can of chicken stock (low sodium).
- It's 1 cup of dried shrimp broth (made by boiling and seeping dried shrimp for 10 min) this is optional as it provides a very intense flavor.
- You need 4 cup of water.
- It's 10 piece of fried tofu.
- Prepare 3 of Shallots chopped finely.
- It's 5 of garlic cloves finely chopped.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of fish sauce.
- It's 2 tbsp of avocado oil.
- Prepare 2 of bay leaf.
- Prepare of bowl.
- You need 1 packages of Rice noodles boil until tender and drain.
- It's 1 cup of bean sprout.
- Prepare 1 bunch of basil.
- Prepare 1 cup of chopped cabbage.
- It's 1 bunch of cilantro.
- You need 1 of Lime cut into quarters.
Quick Bun Rieu (Crab Meat Ball Noodle Soup) instructions
- Combine all ingredients for the meat ball and set aside..
- In a stock pot sautee Shallot and chopped garlic until aromatic..
- Add tomatoes and lemon grass and sautee until tomatoes are soft. add tomato paste and then bay leaf..
- Pour in chicken stock, fish sauce, shrimp broth, water and bring to a boil for 10 min. Skim off foam from top.
- With two spoons, form small meatballs with crab-shrimp-pork mixture and place into boiling soup.
- Add fried tofu, let boil until meatballs and tofu float to the top.
- Cook rice noodles until tender. Drain water. Place rice noodles in a bowl, arrange meatballs and tofu and garnish with basil, bean sprout, cabbage and cilantro. Squeeze 1 wedge of lime into bowl. Pour in hot soup last..