Description
Spicy Meatball Udon Soup is a noodle soup dish made out of Pork and Beef Meatball with udon noodles served with chillies, spring onions and bok choy.
Ingredients
Scale
Noodles
- 4 serving udon noodles, cooked according to packet instructions
- 1/2 cup of dried kibbled shiitake
- 4 long red chillies, sliced
- 1 birds eye chillies, minced
- 1 litre of good stock (you can use beef, chicken or pork)
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1/4 cup crispy fried garlic
- 1/2 cup crispy fried shallots
- 2 thumb sized ginger, thinly sliced
- 4 stalks spring onions, chopped
- 1 stalk of lemon grass, bruised
- 1 large bunch of bok choy, blanched
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- ground white pepper
Meatballs
- 350 g pork mince, 25% fat
- 350 g beef mince
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 egg
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 bird eye chillies, minced
- 1 tsp minced ginger
- salt
- ground white pepper
Instructions
- In a mug combine kibbled shiitake and boiling water, set it aside for 30 minutes and let it rehydrate.
- Prepare your meatballs, combine all meatball ingredients together, mix well and form into meatballs. In the pot that you will be using for your soup add oil and pan fry meatballs until brown on all sides. Remove the meatballs and remove any excess oil.
- In the same pot gently fry the birds eye chillies then pour your stock, the rehydrated mushrooms together with the liquid, crispy fried garlic, crispy fried shallots, ginger and lemon grass. Bring this to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes in low heat.
- Add the meatballs and simmer for 15 more minutes, season with ground white pepper and salt. Turn heat off.
- Prepare your serving bowls, and place your noodles and blanched bok choy. Pour some of the hot soup into the bowl together with some meatballs. Add some sliced spring onions and sliced chillies on top then serve.