Hong Kong Street Beef
This Hong Kong street food inspired noodle soup is packed with flavour, crunchy green veg and tender strips of sirloin in a deeply aromatic broth.
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The Noodle Cookbook
A collection of flavour-packed noodle recipes for every occasion
From Japanese-inspired ramen to plant-based noodle stir-fries
With advice on noodle varieties and store cupboard essentials
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Introduction
Mr Lee’s Hong Kong Street Beef noodle pot is a customer favourite, so we just had to adapt it for our very first cookbook. The richly flavoured and aromatic soup base, combined with the savoury hit of the steak, wraps you in a warm, beefy blanket of contentment. It’s the best kind of comfort food: Tastes like it took hours, but ready in minutes. Winner!
Ingredients
| 1 tbsp | crushed yellow bean sauce |
| 1 tsp | toasted sesame oil |
| ½ tbsp | vegetable oil |
| 250g (9oz) | rib-eye steak, or use sirloin / porterhouse if you prefer |
| 85g (3oz) | sprouting broccoli, or use regular broccoli cut into bite-sized pieces |
| 120g (4¼oz) | dried thin wheat noodles (or use thin rice noodles for a gluten-free alternative) |
| For the soup: | |
| 230g (8¼oz) | lean minced (ground) beef, or substitute |
| 900ml (1½ pints) of | ready-made fresh beef stock |
| 2 | small onions, finely diced |
| 2 | whole star anise |
| 1 large | black cardamom pod |
| ½ tsp | Chinese five-spice powder |
| 1 tsp | ginger paste, or 2.5cm (1 inch) piece of fresh root ginger, finely chopped |
| 1 tsp | garlic paste, or 2 garlic cloves, crushed and chopped |
| ½ tsp | sea salt, or to taste |
| ½ tsp | finely ground black pepper |
| 1 tbsp | crushed yellow bean sauce |
| 900ml (1½ pints) | boiling water (if not using stock) |
| For the garnish: | |
| 1 | spring onion (scallion), finely sliced |
| handful of fresh coriander (cilantro), roughly torn | |
| 2 tbsp | chilli oil |
Method
Heat a medium saucepan over a medium–high heat and brown the minced beef (if using). Then add all the other soup ingredients except the water or stock. Keep stirring for 2–3 minutes, then add the water (or stock, if using). Cover the pan with a lid and leave all those lovely flavours to simmer and intensify over a low heat for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, mix together the yellow bean sauce and toasted sesame oil on a plate. Now it’s steak time! Put the steak on the plate and really rub the marinade all over, then set it aside for a few minutes.
Heat a wok over a high heat and add the vegetable oil. Pan-fry the steak for about 3 minutes on each side. This will cook it medium – but it’s your steak, so cook it how you like. If you want it a bit pinker, then cook it for up to 2 minutes each side. The super-high heat will seal the meat and keep it nice and succulent. As soon as the steak is cooked to your liking, put it on a chopping board, cover it with foil and let it rest for a bit.
Place another medium saucepan on the hob and half-fill with boiling water. Add the broccoli and boil for 2 minutes, then add the dried noodles and simmer for another minute. Drain and divide the broccoli and noodles between two large, deep soup bowls.
Using a fine sieve, strain the soup broth as you pour it over the noodles in each bowl, discarding the aromatics. Slice the steak into strips, then layer on top of the noodle soup. Garnish with spring onion (scallion) and fresh coriander (cilantro). Serve with a small pot of red chilli oil on the side for drizzling, and you’re good to go.
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