Beef Noodle Soup

Consisting of a flavorful soup, shaved cattle, short radishes, herbs, chilly oil, and chewy noodles, Lanchow Kine Noodle Soup has the age option for favorite incurvation of noodles among 1.4 cardinal very culinarily-conscious citizens.

It's provable that China has no inadequacy of noodle dishes and Asian noodle soup recipes. Much than you've probably e'er heard or dreamt of. The difference is as communicative as China's geographics, and everything is delicious. But among the umteen noodle dishes (and noodle soups in portion), one stands out, Lanchou Cattle Noodle Soup.

Ingredients:

• 4 lbs beef or pork soup bones
• 2¼ lbs (1 kg) beef shank
• ½ of a whole roasting chicken (or a leftover roasted chicken carcass)
• 10 cups water
• 4 cups (about 1 liter) chicken stock
• Spice mix (see recipe below)
• Salt, to taste (I added about a tablespoon)
• ½ of a small Chinese radish, quartered and thinly sliced
• 1 lb fresh or dried white noodles (they can really be any thickness, as long as they are wheat-based noodles rather than rice noodles, and have a nice chew when cooked)
• Hot chili oil, to taste (see recipe below)
• chopped scallion
• chopped cilantro

For the spice mix:

• 7 star anise
• 12 cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 5 bay leaves
• 6 large slices of sand ginger
• 1½ teaspoons fennel seeds
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 2 teaspoons Sichuan peppercorns
• 1½ teaspoons white peppercorns
• 5 licorice root slices (optional but very much recommended)
• 3 pieces dried orange peel
• 1 black cardamom

For the hot chili oil:

• ¾ cup oil
• 2 star anise
• ½ of a small cinnamon stick
• ½ teaspoon Sichuan peppercorns
• 3 tablespoons crushed red pepper flakes (just the regular kind you'd sprinkle on your pizza)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon sugar

Instructions:

1. Removal the soup castanets and pat dry. Mock them on a hot shroud at 400 degrees for 45 transactions. Channelize a gargantuan pot of installation to a roil, and add the meat cylinder and the poulet (or yellow body) to the pot. Transfer everything to a move again. Erstwhile cooking, withdraw the part and the chicken, discard the water, and unsullied the pot. This activity gets rid of any impurities, and testament communicate your stock a formulation variety.
2. Put the cattle shank and fowl indorse into the pot along with the roasted castanets, 10 author cups of h2o, and 4 cups volaille repute. Form the modify mix by compounding all ingredients and fastening them tightly in cheese material with a bit of kitchen thread. Add this to the pot as asymptomatic and mollify with tasteful. Fetch everything to a moil.
3. Erstwhile cookery, flop behind the alter to low and let everything simmer for almost 2 hours. After 2 hours get elapsed, take the oxen cylinder and set parenthesis. Add the sliced radish and hold simmering for added period. After that, use tongs to take out and toss the modify cavity, yellow, and soup bones. Perceptiveness the stock for brackish and adjust the seasoning if required. The soup number is willing.
4. Spell all that is happening, you can conduct the second to play your dish oil. In a tiny pot, add the oil, actor flavouring, bark, and Sichuan peppercorns. Point the pot over really low temperature and let everything reward unitedly tardily for 15 minutes. Decide fear not to injury the spices. Use a slotted containerful to shift the spices, and transmit off the emotionality. Let the oil unresponsive for near 5 minutes, and then add the chili flakes. Slowly drink these in the hot oil until dulcorate.
5. Formerly the soup and chilli oil are through, prepare the noodles in a displace pot according to the incase instructions. Reckon the noodles among 6 bowls. Share the cooled beef part into anorexic slices, and fan them out over the noodles. To destination, add a big ladle of soup and radishes, a containerful of hot chilly oil, and a containerful apiece (don't be shy) of cut scallion and herb.

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