Recipe: Perfect Quick Bun Rieu (Crab Meat Ball Noodle Soup)

Quick Bun Rieu (Crab Meat Ball Noodle Soup).

You can have Quick Bun Rieu (Crab Meat Ball Noodle Soup) using 28 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Quick Bun Rieu (Crab Meat Ball Noodle Soup)

1. You need of meat balls.
2. Prepare 1 lb of shrimp (shell, devein and finely chop).
3. Prepare 1 lb of ground pork.
4. You need 2 of eggs, beaten.
5. It's 1 tsp of black pepper and salt.
6. You need 3 of scallion (finely chop).
7. It's 1 tbsp of red boat fish sauce.
8. It's 1 can of fresh crab meat (prefer lump).
9. You need of soup.
10. It's 2 of lemon grass, discard green part. Use white part and cut into 3 inch stalks and bruise.
11. It's 2 tbsp of tomato paste.
12. It's 4 of tomatoes, quartered.
13. It's 2 can of chicken stock (low sodium).
14. You need 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.
15. It's 4 cup of water.
16. You need 10 piece of fried tofu.
17. It's 3 of Shallots chopped finely.
18. Prepare 5 of garlic cloves finely chopped.
19. Prepare 1 tbsp of fish sauce.
20. Prepare 2 tbsp of avocado oil.
21. Prepare 2 of bay leaf.
22. It's of bowl.
23. You need 1 packages of Rice noodles boil until tender and drain.
24. You need 1 cup of bean sprout.
25. It's 1 bunch of basil.
26. It's 1 cup of chopped cabbage.
27. Prepare 1 bunch of cilantro.
28. You need 1 of Lime cut into quarters.

Quick Bun Rieu (Crab Meat Ball Noodle Soup) step by step

1. Combine all ingredients for the meat ball and set aside..
2. In a stock pot sautee Shallot and chopped garlic until aromatic..
3. Add tomatoes and lemon grass and sautee until tomatoes are soft. add tomato paste and then bay leaf..
4. Pour in chicken stock, fish sauce, shrimp broth, water and bring to a boil for 10 min. Skim off foam from top.
5. With two spoons, form small meatballs with crab-shrimp-pork mixture and place into boiling soup.
6. Add fried tofu, let boil until meatballs and tofu float to the top.
7. 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..