How to cook Vietnamese Vermicelli and Chicken Soup (Bún Thang)

1. Ingredients:

– Chicken meat: 250g

– Lean pork paste: 100g

– Dried shrimp: 500g

– Vermicelli: 1,000g

– Ginger:1 piece

– Water: 3,000ml

– Sipuncula (peanut worm): 2-3

– Pig marrow bones: 1,000g

– Salted duck egg: 1

– Fresh shrimp head (or dried cuttlefish): 100g

– Others: fish sauce, belostomatid essence, laksa leaves, lemon, fresh chili, shrimp sauce, dried turnip, spring onion.

Bun-thang-Vemicelli-with-chicken-soup
Bun thang must has shrimp sauce to delicious

2. Instructions:

– To dry the sipuncula. To char the dried shallot and fresh ginger.

– To wash pig marrow bones and boil them in a stockpot; quickly srub the stockpot clean; strike the bones with a hammer to break them partway and return to the pot. Put the shallot, ginger, sipuncula, shrimp head into the pot; pour in water, and bring to a boil to make broth. Before serving, season the broth to taste.

– To put chicken and duck breasts into the stockpot. When cooked, remove from the pot and let cool; shred the chicken and duck, set aside; return the bones to the stockpot.

– To dip the dried shrimp in the stock, then remove and pound; put pounded shrimp into a pan and roast until fluffy (this substance is called pemmican).

– To beat the eggs to make very thin omelet and cut in long strips. Boil salted duck egg; discard egg white; cut egg yolk into thin slices.

– To cut lean pork paste into long, thin trips. Soak dried turnip in water until soft; then dip in fish sauce. Wash and finely chop smartweed. Fry and slice Chinese sausage.

– To pour boiling water on rice vermicelli, then drain; divide vermicelli evenly between 4 large bowls; place smartweed on top and cover with a portion of chicken, duck, omelet, pork paste, and fluffy pemmican; put a slice of egg yolk in the middle of each bowl; ladle boiling broth into bowls.

– To serve soup hot with fish sauce (mixed with belostomatid essence), shrimp paste, lemon juice, chili, and pickled turnip.

Hope you enjoy with this Chicken recipe!