Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, bun rieu. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Bun rieu is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Bun rieu is something which I have loved my whole life.

Bún riêu is another very popular and flavor-packed Vietnamese rice noodle soup, with soup flavored with tomatoes, shrimp paste, fish sauce and a meat broth. It features tofu usually, but the unique addition to this soup is the "riêu" or meatballs, made of pork, shrimp, crab, and prawns. Bún riêu is a traditional Vietnamese soup of clear stock and rice vermicelli. There are several varieties of bún riêu, including bún riêu cua (minced crab), bún riêu cá (fish) and bún riêu ốc (snail).

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bun rieu using 32 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Bun rieu:

1. Take for broth:
2. Make ready 4.5 lt water
3. Take 700 g pork neck bones
4. Get 450 g shrimps (with head)
5. Make ready 1 tbsp tamarind powder
6. Take 3 tbsp seasoned crab paste
7. Make ready 1 tsp shrimp paste
8. Take 2 tbsp salt
9. Take 3 tbsp sugar
10. Make ready 1 tbsp black pepper
11. Get 4 large tomatoes
12. Prepare 5.5 lt water
13. Prepare 2 packets rice noodles
14. Prepare for meatballs:
15. Prepare 500 g crab meat lump
16. Make ready 230 g ground pork
17. Get 900 g peeled shrimp (leftover from the broth step)
18. Get 5 large eggs
19. Take 2 shallots
20. Make ready 1 white onion
21. Prepare 1 bunch green onions
22. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp sugar
23. Prepare 3 tbsp seasoned crab paste
24. Take 1 tsp shrimp paste
25. Prepare 1 tsp salt
26. Make ready 1/2 cup water
27. Get toppings (optional):
28. Get 1 bunch cilantro
29. Prepare 3 large limes
30. Get chili sate sauce
31. Take bean sprouts
32. Prepare fried tofu puffs

Serve with all the garnishes together, so everyone can costumes their own bowl as they wish to have! Add blood cubes to your taste! Bun Rieu is a noodle soup with a pork-based broth filled with tons of tomatoes and topped with a crab paste/egg mixture. It's an unusual combination, but I promise you everyone whose tried it loves it.

Instructions to make Bun rieu:

1. Broth: Add water to a 5lt pot and boil. When the water is boiling, add in the noodles and cook until they are al dente. Strain the noodles and rinse with cold water. Set it aside.
2. Take a large stock pot and put the pork bones in it. Fill with water and boil for a few minutes and discard the water. Add 4.5lt of fresh water to the pork bones again and boil for an hour or longer. (The longer you boil the better the broth will be.)
3. Peel shrimps. Put the peeled shells in the boiling broth. Broth will turn red from the shrimp shells (after around 20 mins). Remove the shells and pork bones from the broth.
4. Add the tamarind powder, 1 tsp of shrimp paste, 3 tbsp of crab paste, 3 tbsp of sugar, 2 tbsp of salt, and 1 tbsp of black pepper into the broth and let it boil.
5. Cut the tomatoes into quarters, saute the pieces, and add them to the broth last to give it a redder colour.
6. Meatballs: Put 900g of peeled shrimp, 5 eggs, 3 tbsp of crab paste, 1 tsp of shrimp paste, 1 tsp salt, ½ cup of water, 1.5 tsp of sugar, 2 shallots, 1 bunch of green onions, and 1 white onion into a food processor. Pulse ingredients together into a paste.
7. Gently fold the crab meat with the shrimp mixture and ground pork until uniform.
8. Boil the broth from above. When it is boiling take the meatball mixture and make free formed meatballs with a spoon putting them into the broth. Add the fried tofu at this point. The meatballs are cooked when they start floating to the top.
9. For toppings, chop up the remaining green onions from the bunch and cilantro bunch – slice the remaining white onion thinly – quarter the limes.
10. To assemble, put noodles in a bowl, add any of the toppings/garnishes. Ladle in the soup with tomatoes and meatballs. Squeeze some lime and add some chilli sate.

Bun Rieu is a noodle soup with a pork-based broth filled with tons of tomatoes and topped with a crab paste/egg mixture. It's an unusual combination, but I promise you everyone whose tried it loves it. Bun rieu is a really popular noodle soup in Vietnam and one of my personal favorites. Bún Riêu is a Vietnamese rice noodle soup with a tomato and crab soup base. It is eaten with a lot of fresh veggies and Vietnamese herbs, the popular of which is split water spinach stems (Rau Muống).

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