Vietnamese soup with fish balls

Recipes / Fish

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Divide soup among bowls. Scatter with spring onions and sliced chilli, if using, to serve.