Meatball with Misua and Watercress

Meatball with Misua and Watercress is a simple dish of meatballs cooked in a chicken stock with watercress and flour vermicelli before it is topped with generous amount of crunchy fried garlic.

Misua, the go to dish for many Filipinos with a tight budget, a humble noodle soup dish that can work with anything you throw at it, sardines, pork and chicken, name it, it will work on it. I had eaten a lot of this dish growing up, on times of hardships and even on times of prosperity. A really versatile dish that can be served on any occasions with a variety of ingredients. By default, misua usually is prepared with a simple hibe (dried shrimps) and patola (luffa) but if you don’t have either ingredient any protein or vegetable can be used, take our recipe for today as an example, I was planning to make one but since I can’t find luffa at our local supermarket, I tried using watercress instead.

Meatball with Misua and Watercress

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• Author: Raymund
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 25 mins
• Total Time: 40 mins
• Yield: 5 1x
• Category: Main Course
• Cuisine: Filipino

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Description

Meatball with Misua and Watercress is a simple dish of meatballs cooked in a chicken stock with watercress and flour vermicelli before it is topped with generous amount of crunchy fried garlic.

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Ingredients

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• 150 g misua noodles
• 15–18 pcs pan fried pork and beef meatballs (recipe here)
• 1 bunch watercress, trimmed and cleaned
• 1 small red onion, sliced
• 6 cloves garlic, minced
• 8 cups chicken stock
• oil
• fish sauce
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• fried garlic, to garnish

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Instructions

1. In a soup pot add oil then sauté garlic and onions
2. Add the pork and beef meatballs, pour the chicken stock then bring to a boil then simmer in low heat for 15 minutes
3. Add the watercress continue to simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Add the misua and continue to simmer for 2 minutes.
5. Season with fish sauce and freshly ground black pepper turn off heat then serve garnished with generous amount of fried garlic.

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