Vegetable and Rice Noodle Soup

Vegetable and Rice Noodle Soup
© Constantin Fischer

Vegetable and Rice Noodle Soup

Few dishes can warm you up like a bowl of noodle soup. This one, from Constantin Fischer, is made with lots of crunchy fresh vegetables and is made using a Japanese stock base. It is accented with European herbs for an East-meets-West flavour.

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For the soup base

Ingredients (4 servings)
500 g carrots, sliced diagonally
2 red onions, sliced
2 l water
4–5 tablespoon(s) whiskey
2 tablespoon(s) soya sauce
1 tablespoon(s) Yamaki soup base
2 makrut lime leaves
1/2 star anise
6 cubeb pepper
2 stalk(s) lemongrass, quartered
1 twigs rosemary
1 twigs sage
1 thumb-size piece fresh ginger, sliced
1 thumb-size piece fresh turmeric, sliced
2 teaspoon(s) peanut oil

For the soup and to serve

Ingredients (4 servings)
1/2 Chinese cabbage, thinly sliced
2 pak choi, sliced
125 g baby corn, quartered
200 g bean sprouts
2 chillies, finely sliced, to serve
1 packet rice noodles
peanut oil
salt
125 mushrooms (ideally shiitake), sliced
  • Heat the peanut oil in a large saucepan, then add the carrots and onion and cook, stirring, for 10 minutes.
  • Pour in the water, add the soya sauce, whiskey and Yamaki soup base and simmer for 45 minutes.
  • Add the lemongrass, lime leaf, star anise, cubeb pepper, turmeric, ginger, rosemary and sage. Leave all the spices to infuse for 10 minutes.
  • Strain the soup into a clean pan and keep it hot.
  • Cook the rice noodles according to the package instructions and set aside.
  • Heat the peanut oil in a pan and briefly fry the baby corn and mushrooms for 2 minutes. Season with salt. 
  • Divide the rice noodles and the cooked and raw vegetables evenly among soup bowls.
  • Pour the hot stock over them to lightly cook them. Sprinkle over the sliced chilli to serve.  

See photos of how to prepare the soup in the photo gallery.

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