❤️🍲 Chinese Beef Noodle Soup: Comfort Food
Chinese beef noodle soup transforms simple ingredients into a healing meal. This traditional dish nourishes your body and warms your soul.
Health Benefits
- Beef provides high-quality protein for muscle repair
- Bone broth contains collagen that supports joint health
- Tomatoes add lycopene, which fights free radicals
- Ginger and garlic boost your immune system
- Homemade noodles contain no preservatives or artificial additives
Soup Ingredients
- Protein: Beef shank (add beef tendon if you want)
- Aromatics: Ginger, garlic, scallions
- Produce: 2 tomatoes, 2 onions
- Liquids: Doubanjiang, shaoxing wine, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce
- Spices: Cinnamon sticks, fennel, ginger, cumin, cloves
- Seasoning: Salt, honey
- Vegetables: Green onions, cilantro, small bok choy
Making the Soup
- Cut beef shank into pieces
- Blanch meat in boiling water for 10 minutes
- Rinse completely to remove impurities
- Slice ginger, smash garlic, cut scallions into pieces
- Quarter tomatoes, slice onions (do not dice)
- Heat oil and fry everything until fragrant
- Add shaoxing wine
- Mix in 2-3 tablespoons of doubanjiang
- Add a teaspoon of honey
- Pour in 10 cups of boiling water
- Add spices: Cinnamon, fennel, and cloves
- Simmer for at least 2 hours (4-5 hours is optimal)
- Add seasonings: salt, soy sauces
Homemade Noodles
- Mix high-protein (gluten) flour with water slowly
- Keep dough dry, not sticky
- Add a little salt and oil
- Knead until cohesive like bread dough
- Let rest for 1 hour
- Knead again (dough will feel softer)
- Let it rest another hour, if possible
- Roll out and cut into strips
Assembly
- Boil small bok choy until tender
- Cook noodles in the same water
- Place noodles in bowl
- Add small bok choy
- Sprinkle cilantro and green onions
- Add hot broth over everything
- Add chili for spice (optional)
Why This Recipe Heals
- Traditional Chinese medicine values food as medicine
- Each ingredient serves a specific health purpose
- Spices aid digestion
- Broth hydrates and nourishes
- Vegetables provide essential vitamins
- Making it at home saves money
- You control all ingredients
- The cooking process becomes self-care
Tradition and health you can taste, and love you can share.
Crepi il lupo! 🐺