Japanese-style Salmon Soup

This hot and spicy soup has everything that a hot and spicy soup needs! Two generous servings!

Ingredients:

Couple of slabs of salmon, cut into chunks (see photo)

A good pint & half of stock (chicken, veg or strangely, beef)

1 onion, diced

1 carrot, grated

Generous thumb of ginger, cut into strips (julienne)

Few cloves of chopped garlic

A good handful of mushrooms, roughly sliced

Generous splash of soy sauce

Generous splash of fish/oyster sauce

1tbsp hot chilli powder

1 lime

Half a pack of rice noodles

Chopped spring onion to garnish

1tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Cracked black pepper

1. Pour the stock into a large pan, on a medium heat

2. Add the onion, carrot, ginger, garlic and mushrooms

3. Add the soy sauce, fish/oyster sauce and chilli powder and stir.

4. Put the salmon chunks into the pan, reduce the heat and put a lid on. Simmer for 20-30 mins.

5. Fry the rice noodles in the oil for 2-3 mins. Put the noodles into the bottom of a serving bowl. Squeeze the juice of 1 lime into the soup before serving the soup and salmon chunks over. Garnish with spring onion.

Ideas:

 - try sliced chilli to garnish

 - try fresh coriander to garnish

 - try beansprouts and/or sliced cabbage in the soup, instead of mushrooms

Yum yum yum :)