Asian Noodle Soup
INGREDIENTS

These quatities make one portion of soup:
- 150-200ml beef stock (hot)
- 1 portion of rice noodles
- 1 clove of garlic
- 2tsp fish sauce
- 1tsp lime juice
- 1 red chili
- Small lump of ginger
- Few green pepper corns
- Bunch of green stuff: coriander, basil, parsley, pak choi, 1 spring onion, half a lemongrass stalk, outer removed.
- 100g beef fillet steak
- 1tsp palm sugar

METHOD

I can't take full credit (or any actually) for this recipe. I was watching Rick Stein's program the other week. A few days later, I came in from a day biking and wondered what to have to pick myself up. Baked beans? Cheese toasty? Not today. Because I had a brain wave. Or rather cobbled together a dish inspired be aforementioned Pudstow legend. I had a small bit of fillet beef in the fridge, some stock in the freezer, and fresh chilis, spring onions, pak choi, corriander and basil in the glasshouse.
Method:
- Prepare yor ingedients: chop the spring onions in half, bash the garlic and lemongrass.
- Throw the white of the onion, the garlic and the lemon grass into your warming stalk.
- Finely chop the herbs, ginger, chili and pak choi. Slice the beef into 3mm thick slices.
- Cook the noodles in some lightly salted water. Drain.
- Place noodles in a warm soup bowl. Place the beef on top.
- Pour over your boiling hot stock along with the garlic, lemon grass and onion so it covers the the noodles and beef slices.
- This is how the beef is cooked!! Just the residual heat is enough to barely cook the beef.
- Add the fish sauce, pepper corns, palm sugar, bit of black pepper.
- Now, throw in the ginger, chili and the green herbs and pak choi, and a squeeze of lime.
- Ready to serve!!
- Just before you tuck in (with chopstick) give the greens a good stir in to the stock and tuck in.
- It is typical in S.E. Asia: hot, savory, sour, sweet and aromatic.
- It is a great refreshing and delicious soup.
- Just the carb and protein hit I needed after 6 hours biking.
- And it is pretty much FAT FREE. Not that I really care, it just happened by accident, honest!!