22 October, 2008

Small Rice Noodle with Beef Balls (Sen Lek Luk Chin Naue)


Easy rice noodle soup with ฺ Beef balls called "Sen Lek Luk Chin Naue"

Ingredients:
  • 200 g. small rice noodle
  • 8-10 Beef balls
  • ½ cube beef broth
  • 3 cups water
  • 3 Tbsp thin soy sauce (or fish sauce)
  • 1 Tbsp seasoning soy sauce
  • 1 ½ Tbsp sugar
  • 3 green onions
  • 2 sprigs cilantro
  • 1 green lettuce
  • 5-6 garlic cloves
  • 3 Tbsp vegetable oil
  • Chinese mustard
  • Bean sprout or any as you wish.
Preparation:
  • Soak small rice noodles for 10 minutes, drain, and set aside.
  • Cut green onion and cilantro roots, pick green lettuce leaves, wash all vegetables, pat dry, and finely slice. Then put in each bowl and set aside.
  • Peel garlic, wash dirt, and mince. 
  • Heat oil in a wok on medium heat, when oil is hot; add minced garlic, fry until golden and fragrant, and then put in a small bowl.
  • Pour 5 cups water in a pot, bring to boil on high heat, bring the amount of small rice noodle, bean sprout that you want to scald for 1 minute, drain and put in a serving bowl that has chinese mustard and sliced green lettuce at a bottom.
  • Add 2 tsp fried minced garlic with oil to rice noodle, stir thoroughly, and set aside.
  • Pour 3 cups water in another pot, add chicken broth cube and bring to boil on medium-high heat.
  • When the soup is boiling, add beef balls, season with thin soy sauce (or fish sauce), seasoning soy sauce, and sugar, stir well and allow boiling again.
  • Spoon beef balls and beef broth stewed in a serving bowl and then add the soup.
  • Garnish with sliced green onion and cilantro, sprinkle with fried garlic, and serve immediately with set of dry cilli, sugar, lime, fish sauce add what you like....and Yum..Yum...;)