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beef noodle soup

Beef Noodle Soup

Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings 4 people

Ingredients

Ingredients for Stewed Beef

  • 800 g beef flank cut into 3cm dice. Try to keep any fatty bits for better flavour and texture
  • 4 medium carrots cut into 3cm dice
  • 3 spring onions
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 3 thin slices ginger
  • 1 chili depends on personal flavour
  • 2 cups brown or beef stock I used chicken bone toasted with vegetable to make brown stock

Seasonings for Stewed Beef

  • 3 star anises
  • 1/2 cinnamon stick
  • 2 slices liquourice optional
  • 4 tbsp soy sauce
  • 6 tbsp rice wine
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp chili bean sauce

Ingredients for Noodles

  • 300 g bread flour
  • 1 medium egg
  • 200 ml water
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Instructions

Procedures for stewed beef

  1. Blanch beef by boiled water and wash it under cold water then leave it on aside. Heat up a wok with 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil and sauté spring onions, ginger, garlic, star anise and cinnamon. Add beef and Chilli bean sauce to stir-fry for a couple minutes.

  2. Place procedures 1 into a stock pot and add all the seasonings into the pot then add water to cover the beef. Use full gas power to boil the beef first then turn to lowest gas power to simmer it at least 1 hour.

  3. Add carrot into the pot and cook it until the beef and carrot turn soft and tender.

  4. Place cooked noodle into a bowl with some vegetable you like and put couple table spoon of stewed beef with sauce on top and cover everything by stock then it’s ready to serve. **

Procedures for Noodles

  1. Mix everything together and rub it for 10~15 minutes, cover by cling film or wet kitchen napkin and leave it on aside for 20 minutes.

  2. Use rolling pin to roll the dough and make it thin and flat.

  3. Fold the dough from procedures 2 and cut it into strip.

  4. Use hands to separate the noodle and boil water to cook it.

Recipe Notes

** You can also use a little bit of chopped spring onion to garnish it. Spring onion has special fragrance can make the beef noodle taste even better.