Miswa Soup

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(Ground Beef With Fine Flour Noodles)

Ground beef with Chinese Miswa Noodles

This dish is very easy to make but is very good.  I cooked this soup one cold evening for my husband and I.  I had a little leftover that I had for lunch the next day and I was going to cook more of this soup that would complement the fried fish that evening.  My husband opted for the soup alone because he said it was very good.  So I put the fish back in the freezer and cooked more of the same soup.  We ate it just like we ate the first.

I also took this opportunity to write the recipe down because I remember my son asked me to make it one day.  It is one of his favorites.

The image on the right uses Japanese fine flour noodles similar to the Chinese miswa noodles.

For 6 to 8 servings:

  • 1 lb. ground beef
  • 2 cans beef broth
  • 1 beef bouillon
  • 4 cups water
  • 2 cloves garlic minced or crushed
  • ½ med. Onion diced
  • ½ cup diced green bell pepper
  • 2 tsp. Patis (fish sauce) optional
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/8 tsp. black pepper
  • 2 cups broken up Japanese miswa (fine flour noodles) or 1 coil of Chinese miswa broken in half

Sauté the garlic in 1 TBS oil until fragrant then stir in the onions and cook until transparent.  Add the ground beef and stir to separate and cook until brown.  Add the fish sauce and simmer.  Add the bell pepper, 2 cans of beef broth and 4 cups of water.  Let boil and add the bouillon, simmer covered for about 30 minutes or until the ground meat is tender. Add the black pepper then the miswa noodles. Simmer until the noodles are done, about 1 minute.

Skim off the floating oil or fat. Wait until the noodles are added and cooked before adding the salt.  These noodles have salt in them.  Taste, then add the appropriate amount of salt to your taste.

If not using canned beef broth, add 7.5 to 8 cups of water then double the beef bouillon. Chopped fresh jalapeno peppers can also be added while cooking if desired for a little zing.

Filipinos like to eat it with rice and Patis with crushed hot labuyo pepper as dip but labuyo peppers are not available here unless you have a plant in your garden, so I use jalapenos instead.

With Chinese Miswa Noodles

You can also add hard boiled egg or sunny side up egg in the individual bowl. Some like the egg yolk runny but I prefer it cooked well.