Vietnamese soup with fish balls
- 09.03.2017
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Some fresh produce and a few pantry staples are all you need for this delicious Vietnamese noodle soup.
Recipe «Vietnamese soup with fish balls» presented in category Recipes / Fish, to prepare this dish you will need no more 30 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 500g snapper fillets, pin-boned, skinned, 1 clove garlic, thinly sliced, 1cm piece ginger, finely grated, 1 egg, 1/2 cup mint leaves, finely chopped , 450g packet fresh rice noodles, 2 spring onions, cut into, 5cm lengths , Thinly sliced long red chilli , to serve, 2 tbsp peanut oil, 1 red onion, finely chopped, 2 cloves garlic, crushed, 2cm piece ginger, finely grated, 2 cinnamon quills, 5 star anise, 100g shiitake mushrooms, halved.
Ingredients:
- 500g snapper fillets, pin-boned, skinned
- 1 clove garlic, thinly sliced
- 1cm piece ginger, finely grated
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup mint leaves, finely chopped
- 450g packet fresh rice noodles
- 2 spring onions, cut into
- 5cm lengths
- Thinly sliced long red chilli , to serve
- 2 tbsp peanut oil
- 1 red onion, finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 2cm piece ginger, finely grated
- 2 cinnamon quills
- 5 star anise
- 100g shiitake mushrooms, halved
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 125ml soy sauce
- 1L chicken stock
Instructions
- To make broth, heat oil in a large saucepan over high heat. Add onion, garlic, ginger and spices, then cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes or until onion is soft. Add remaining ingredients and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium. Simmer for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, to make fish balls, process fish, garlic, ginger and egg in a food processor until combined. Transfer to a large bowl with mint. Season, then stir to combine. Roll heaped tablespoons of mixture into 20 balls.
- Carefully lower fish balls into broth. Increase heat to high and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 4 minutes. Add rice noodles and cook for a further 3 minutes or until fish balls and noodles are cooked.
- Divide soup among bowls. Scatter with spring onions and sliced chilli, if using, to serve.