[Homemade] Vietnamese Noodle Soup (Bun Rieu)

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My mom's homemade Bun Rieu!

Ingredients Needed(10 person meal)-

Meats: 3 lbs pork bones, 1 1/2 lbs ground pork, 1 1/2 lbs fresh shrimp, 2 eggs

Vegetables: 4 lbs tomatoes, 3 onions, 3 taro stems, 2 ginger, 2 bunch green onions, 1 bunch cilantro

Seasonings: Salt, Pepper, Fish Sauce, Crab Paste, Sesame Oil, White Wine(or any liquor)

Misc: Vermicelli Noodles

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Total time roughly - 2.5 hrs

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Recipe-

1. Prepare vegetables : Chop all the tomatoes, dice 2 onions, chop 3 taro stems, chop green onions, and cilantro.
2. Prepare the soup: Clean the pork bones first, and then set it in the stove pot to stew for a few mins. Add wine & ginger to the stew, let it sit for another 5-10mins. After that, fill up the pot with water, drop in a whole onion and let it boil for 1 1/2 hours. While this is boiling, grill the diced onions.
3. Prepare the meatballs: Chop and mash the shrimp and mix it in with the ground pork. Add in, the grilled dice onions, green onions, cilantro to mix! Drop in salt, pepper, fish sauce, crab paste, sesame oil, & white wine as the seasonings (to taste). After that keep mixing everything together and let it sit until ready to eat.
4. Preparing soup PT 2: After an hour and a half of boiling, saute the chopped tomatoes until soft and add it to the soup. Then add the taro stems also and let it stew for at least another 30 mins. (Don't forget to taste soup add more salt or fish sauce if needed)
5. Prepare the Noodles: Add vermicelli noodles to hot boiling water to cook for a under 5 mins, then let it take a cold water bath(so the noodles don't stick) Take it out and set it aside until preparing to eat.
6. Ready to start plating - Boil hot water again, add the noodles to be warmed up. Roll the pork & shrimp mix into meatballs and toss them into the soup to cook. Open some up to see if they are still raw after a few mins. Pour soup into the noodles along with all the meatballs & some taro stems. Add garnishes as desired, enjoy!

bon appetit