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Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup
Ingredients
  • 4 lbs beef or pork soup bones
  • 2 ¼ lbs (1 kg) beef shank
  • ½ of a whole roasting chicken (or a leftover roasted chicken carcass)
  • 10 cups water
  • 4 cups (about 1 liter)  chicken stock
  • Spice mix (see recipe below)
  • Salt, to taste (I added about a tablespoon)
  • ½ of a small Chinese radish, quartered and thinly sliced
  • 1 lb fresh or fresh or dried white noodles (they can really be any thickness, as long as they are wheat-based noodles rather than rice noodles, and have a nice chew when cooked)
  • Hot chili oil, to taste (see recipe below)
  • chopped scallion
  • chopped cilantro
  • subheading: For the Lanzhou beef noodle soup spice mix:
  • 7  star anise
  • 12 cloves
  • 1  cinnamon stick
  • 5  bay leaves
  • 6 large slices of sand ginger
  • 1 ½ teaspoons fennel seeds
  • 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  • 2 teaspoons Sichuan peppercorns
  • 1 ½ teaspoons white peppercorns
  • 5 licorice root slices (optional but very much recommended)
  • 3 pieces  dried orange peel
  • 1 black cardamom
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  • Check our our Chinese Dry spices and condiments page to see more detailed descriptions and pictures of these and other  spices we use in our recipes.
  • subheading: For the hot chili oil:
  • ¾ cup oil
  • 2 star anise
  • ½ of a small cinnamon stick
  • ½ teaspoon Sichuan peppercorns
  • 3 tablespoons crushed red pepper flakes (just the regular kind you’d sprinkle on your pizza)
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon sugar
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