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Make restaurant quality beef noodle soup in under an hour. Tender stewed beef, a bone broth base, authentic Asian spices, veggies, and your choice of noodles.
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Beef Noodle Soup (Szechuan Style)

Make restaurant quality beef noodle soup in under an hour. Tender stewed beef, a bone broth base, authentic Asian spices, veggies, and your choice of noodles.

Course Main Course, Soup
Cuisine Chinese
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings 4
Author Sharon Chen

Ingredients

  • 1 pound beef stew meat
  • 4 ounces watercress
  • 12-15 shiitake mushrooms
  • 4 eggs soft boiled
  • 8 ounces Chinese noodles or ramen, or udon
  • 1-inch chunk ginger sliced
  • 4 cloves garlic smashed and roughly sliced
  • 5 cups Kettle & Fire Beef Bone Broth
  • 1 tablespoon red wine
  • 1⁄4 cup spicy chili bean sauce
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 5 tablespoons olive oil divided
  • 3 star anises
  • 2 teaspoons five-spice powder
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 1 stem green onion chopped for garnishing
  • Sesame oil
  • Salt and pepper

Instructions

  1. Place beef stew meat in a medium bowl; add red wine and a pinch of salt and pepper; stir well.

  2. In a large saucepan, heat up 2 tablespoons olive oil over medium-high heat; add seasoned beef, stir until the outside of the beef starts turning brown (about 5 minutes).

  3. Add 5 cups beef bone broth into the saucepan. Switch heat to high and bring to a boil, then simmer.

  4. While the meat is simmering, heat up 3 tablespoons olive oil over medium-high heat in a small skillet (about 2 minutes).

  5. Add sugar and fry until it starts turning brown; now add star anise, five-spice powder, ginger and garlic; stir for about 10 seconds; quickly add chili bean sauce. Stir well and cook on low for about 1 minute.

  6. Transfer the chili bean sauce mixture to the large saucepan; add soy sauce, then simmer for 25 minutes.

  7. In the meantime, boil eggs. (Bring 4 cups water to a boil in a small saucepan, gently add eggs and let them boil for 4 1/2 minutes for soft-boiled eggs or 5 minutes for hard-boiled eggs. Drain and let the eggs sit in cold water for 5 minutes before peeling.)

  8. After 25 minutes of simmering, add noodles and mushrooms in the saucepan; bring to a boil. Once the beef noodle soup is boiling, add watercress, then immediately turn off the heat. Stir until the watercress vegetable starts to wilt.

  9. To serve, divide the noodle soup into 4 bowls evenly; drizzle with sesame oil. Place one soft-boiled egg in each bowl; sprinkle with chopped green onion. Enjoy!