Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, bun rieu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The meatball looking fellas in this soup, called gach, or rieu, were originally made with pounded mini crabs in Vietnam. Media: Bun rieu Bún riêu is a traditional Vietnamese soup of clear stock and rice vermicelli. There are several varieties of bún riêu , including bún riêu cua (minced crab), bún riêu cá (fish) and bún riêu ốc (snail).
Bun rieu is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Bun rieu is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bun rieu using 32 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bun rieu:
- Get for broth:
- Take 4.5 lt water
- Take 700 g pork neck bones
- Prepare 450 g shrimps (with head)
- Make ready 1 tbsp tamarind powder
- Make ready 3 tbsp seasoned crab paste
- Get 1 tsp shrimp paste
- Take 2 tbsp salt
- Prepare 3 tbsp sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp black pepper
- Get 4 large tomatoes
- Make ready 5.5 lt water
- Take 2 packets rice noodles
- Make ready for meatballs:
- Make ready 500 g crab meat lump
- Make ready 230 g ground pork
- Get 900 g peeled shrimp (leftover from the broth step)
- Get 5 large eggs
- Prepare 2 shallots
- Prepare 1 white onion
- Get 1 bunch green onions
- Get 1 1/2 tsp sugar
- Make ready 3 tbsp seasoned crab paste
- Get 1 tsp shrimp paste
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1/2 cup water
- Make ready toppings (optional):
- Get 1 bunch cilantro
- Get 3 large limes
- Get chili sate sauce
- Get bean sprouts
- Prepare fried tofu puffs
Other Names for Bun Rieu - Vietnamese Pork and Crab Noodle Soup. Bun rieu is a really popular noodle soup in Vietnam and one of my personal favorites. It is characterized by a pork-based broth that has tomatoes, onions, dried shrimp, and a crab paste/egg mixture. All the ingredients give the broth a balance of salty and sweet flavors.
Steps to make Bun rieu:
- Broth: Add water to a 5lt pot and boil. When the water is boiling, add in the noodles and cook until they are al dente. Strain the noodles and rinse with cold water. Set it aside.
- Take a large stock pot and put the pork bones in it. Fill with water and boil for a few minutes and discard the water. Add 4.5lt of fresh water to the pork bones again and boil for an hour or longer. (The longer you boil the better the broth will be.)
- Peel shrimps. Put the peeled shells in the boiling broth. Broth will turn red from the shrimp shells (after around 20 mins). Remove the shells and pork bones from the broth.
- Add the tamarind powder, 1 tsp of shrimp paste, 3 tbsp of crab paste, 3 tbsp of sugar, 2 tbsp of salt, and 1 tbsp of black pepper into the broth and let it boil.
- Cut the tomatoes into quarters, saute the pieces, and add them to the broth last to give it a redder colour.
- Meatballs: Put 900g of peeled shrimp, 5 eggs, 3 tbsp of crab paste, 1 tsp of shrimp paste, 1 tsp salt, ½ cup of water, 1.5 tsp of sugar, 2 shallots, 1 bunch of green onions, and 1 white onion into a food processor. Pulse ingredients together into a paste.
- Gently fold the crab meat with the shrimp mixture and ground pork until uniform.
- Boil the broth from above. When it is boiling take the meatball mixture and make free formed meatballs with a spoon putting them into the broth. Add the fried tofu at this point. The meatballs are cooked when they start floating to the top.
- For toppings, chop up the remaining green onions from the bunch and cilantro bunch – slice the remaining white onion thinly – quarter the limes.
- To assemble, put noodles in a bowl, add any of the toppings/garnishes. Ladle in the soup with tomatoes and meatballs. Squeeze some lime and add some chilli sate.
The pork and dried shrimp make the broth sweet while the crab paste makes. Vietnamese Pork & Crab Noodle Soup (Bun Rieu) I wasn't a big fan of Bún Riêu until I tasted my mother-in-law's Bún Riêu and boy oh boy, was I pleasantly surprised at all the bold flavors. The fermented shrimp paste, the spiced minced crab, the tangy lime and the crunch of the water spinach, all made for a party in the mouth. Bun rieu (bún riêu) is a Vietnamese crab based soup noodle dish. There are a few different types of bun rieu, but I had bun rieu cua, the version with crab, tomatoes, pork, and some pieces of tofu as well.
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