Recipe: Tasty 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 achieve that.

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

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