Paddy Crab Paste Vermicelli Soup (Bun Rieu Cua)

Paddy crab paste vermicelli soup (Bun Rieu Cua) is one of well known and cheap Vietnamese Noodle Recipes. This dish is a dish have full of water that the broth is charming, and sweet. The sweetness of paddy crab paste vermicelli is from pork broth, chicken bones, water, chicken broth in cans but have dried shrimp cooked with shrimp sauce, so if you are not familiar smell of fish sauce afraid to be afraid.
 

 

This dish usually serve with boiled spinach. In afternoon, on the kitchen, cook one of stunningVietnamese Noodle Recipes will create the warm atmosphere for your family.

Ingredients (serving 4 people)

- 1 package dried shrimp
- ½ lb ground pork
- ½ lb peeled shrimp
- 3 cans of chicken broth
- 1 can of 14 spices cooked crab vermicelli
- 4 large tomatoes, washed and cut in 4 pieces of each tomato
- 6 eggs
- 3 tubers leeks cut thinly
- 1 teaspoon tamarind powder
- 1 package of vermicelli (the type used to eating bun bo hue)
- 1 bunch of ong choy
- 1 bunch fresh marjoram
- Oil, fish sauce, pepper, shrimp paste, lemon juice, chili
(Can buy fried tofu, pork blood boiling, if you want).

Process

Step 1(I suggest for making one of Vietnamese Noodle recipes like this dish, you must follow carefully this step)  

– Make paddy crab:  Add fresh shrimp peeled  in a blender with 6 eggs + 1 can of spices cooked crab vermicelli + ½ cup water + 1 tablespoon fish sauce ¼ teaspoon pepper, then grind very fine – add pork or chicken into the final, stir them together.
 

 

Step 2- Make the broth: Add dried shrimp washed into the pot, cooked fresh water, then add the broth cooked with pork bones or chicken bones to the pot (if you do not have to use 3 cans chicken broth) + 1 tablespoon sauce shrimp 1 tablespoon fish sauce + 1 teaspoon tamarind powder, some salt, and sugar - all boil on the stove. (The amount of water in pot about 16 cups).

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