Recipe of Thomas Keller Chinese Beef Noodle Soup

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese beef noodle soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chinese Beef Noodle Soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chinese Beef Noodle Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chinese beef noodle soup using 34 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese Beef Noodle Soup:

1. Prepare 1 kg Beef bones (optional)
2. Prepare 2 kg Beef (I used "beef finger meat" but shank and chuck are great)
3. Get 2 tsp whole coriander seeds
4. Get 2 tsp whole fennel seeds
5. Make ready 1 tsp whole cloves
6. Make ready 6 pods star anise
7. Get 1 orange peel
8. Make ready 2 sticks cinnamon
9. Make ready 2 tsp Szechuan peppercorns
10. Take 8-10 bay leaves
11. Get 3/4 cup oil
12. Get 2 onions, quartered
13. Prepare 12 cloves garlic, smashed
14. Prepare 4 red chiles, halved
15. Make ready 10 scallions, cut into thirds
16. Prepare 100 g fresh ginger, sliced
17. Make ready 130 g Rock Sugar
18. Take Optional 1 apple cored and sliced
19. Take 3 tbsp Doubanjiang (soy bean paste)
20. Make ready 3 tbsp La Doubanjiang (spicy soy bean paste)
21. Prepare 1 cup light soy sauce
22. Get 1 cup dark soy sauce
23. Prepare 1 cup Shaoxing wine (or rice wine)
24. Make ready 2 tbsp black vinegar
25. Take 4 tomatoes, quartered
26. Prepare 4 tsp MSG or salt
27. Take 1-3 tsp Chili Oil for serving (see recipe)
28. Prepare Cilantro for serving
29. Prepare Scallions for serving
30. Make ready 1/2 tsp Black Vinegar for serving
31. Prepare 1 tsp Sesame oil for serving
32. Make ready 1 tsp soy sauce for serving
33. Take pinch fresh ground white pepper for serving
34. Get 1 portion wheat noodles for serving

Steps to make Chinese Beef Noodle Soup:

1. (optional) For extra beefy flavour, make beef stock with the bones by boiling them in water with your largest stock pot. After about 5 minutes there will be a lot of scum on top, so use a strainer to skim off the scum every couple of minutes until the stock produces no more foam. It should look a bit green and oily when finished (see pic). Reduce heat to keep it simmering for 1-3 hrs to extract maximum flavour. Alternatively, you can skip this step just use water
2. While stock is simmering, blanch your beef to remove impurities. In a clean pot, boil just enough water to cover your beef and then add the beef and keep it boiling for 1-2 minutes. Remove the beef, rinse in clean water, cut into eating sized chunks. Discard the scummy water from this step.
3. Make spice ball by placing coriander, fennel, cloves, cinnamon, star anise, orange peel, Szechuan peppercorns, and bay leaves into a spice ball or spice bag.
4. In a wok or large pan over medium-high heat, pour in vegetable oil. Once heated, add the onions, garlic, chilis, scallions, ginger, rock sugar, apple, and bean pastes. Cook until the onions start to become translucent.
5. Add Shaoxing wine, allow some alcohol to cook off, then add soy sauces.
6. Add the sliced beef, spice ball, and tomatoes. Stir fry for about 10 minutes.
7. Go back to your beef bone stock and remove all the bones, then strain it into a large bowl to remove all the sediment at bottom of pot.
8. Combine beef bone stock and beef with braising liquid/spices/vegetables in a large pot. Simmer on low heat for at least 2 hours until flavours combine and meat is tender.
9. Check occasionally and skim off any scum on the top. When almost finished simmering, taste the broth and season. I usually add 2-4 tsp of MSG at this point.
10. Remove spice bag, or if you didn't use bag, remove the meat and tomatoes and then strain out the remaining solids. Add meat and tomatoes back to broth.
11. To serve, put light soy sauce, sesame oil, black vinegar, and ground white pepper in bottom of each bowl. Add broth and noodles, and top with chili oil, thinly sliced scallions, and lots of cilantro.
12. ENJOY!

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