A healthy and delicious version of noodles consists of flavourful broth and bouncy fish meatballs or patty, crunchy beansprouts, bok choy, and fried minced garlic as a topping.
Fish Noodles Soup
A healthy and delicious version of noodles consists of flavourful broth and bouncy fish meatballs or patty, crunchy beansprouts, bok choy, and fried minced garlic as a topping.
Ingredients
Method
Fish Broth:
- Roughly slice 1 shallot, cut green onion (white part) into 2-inches long, cut onion in half.
- In a large pot, turn the heat to medium-high, add olive oil, onion, shallot and stir. Once turned golden brown, add oyster sauce, sugar, chicken powder, salt, fish sauce, stir, then add water.
- Once it starts boiling, add fish cakes and green onion (white part) and cook for 5 minutes, then take the fish cakes out and thinly sliced; put them back in the broth. Fish paste can be formed as meatballs or patty. Love both!
Fish Cakes:
- Let's start with cutting the fish into cubes. Then in a mixing bowl, combine tapioca starch, baking powder, salt, sugar, chicken soup base mix, ground black|white pepper, minced garlic, and ice water, stir well.
- Use food processor, add the fish cubes, and the mixture, blend for 10-15 minutes. Pause the chine every 1 minute, and spread the meat evenly. Keep the fish meat as cool as possible while blending ( add ice cubes if needed ).
- Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Take out from the fridge and start rolling to form as patty or meatballs, using plastic wrap and brush some oil to avoid stickiness and roll. Then put them back in the fridge for later.
Stir-fry Fish Cake:
- Thinly slice the onion, finely chop the garlic, thinly slice green onion (green part), cut the wrapped fish cake into cubes (use some olive oil if it's sticky).
- Place a non-stick pan over medium-high heat, add olive oil, minced garlic, chopped fish cake, oyster sauce, sliced and chopped garlic, onion, and green onion, stir for about 1-2 minutes, then transfer into a bowl for serving.
Deep-fry Minced Garlic (Topping):
- Place a pan over medium-high heat, add 1 cup of vegetable oil, add 1-2 whole bulbs of minced garlic, and deep fry until golden fragrant golden brown, drain well and transfer into a bowl for serving.
Topping (bok choy, beansprouts, and lime):
- Cut the bok choy in half or bite-sized and rise well with water, then cook the bok choy in boiling water for about 1-2 minutes.
- Rinse the beansprouts well with water to remove the dirt. Then cook them in the boiling water for only 50 seconds.
- Cut the lime into small finger pinch size.
Dried Noodles:
- Soak the dried noodles in cool water for 30 minutes and rinse well with water until the water runs clear. Then cook them in the boiling water for 30 seconds ( base on the type of noodles, please refer to the package instructions).
Serving:
- Let's start combining all:Noodles, beansprouts, bok choy, fish cake, fish meatballs or patty, stir-fried fish cake, and the broth, top with dried garlic, fresh lime.
- Usually, people enjoy having noodles with sweet and sour soybean dipping sauce on the side. It's delicious!
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