Beef Noodle Soup

Beef Noodle Soup - hearty, but light - perfect to shake of the winter pounds!

My husband went for a gastroscopy, and we found he has a Hiatus Hernia. We've decided to change his diet to lighter, more frequent meals.
We are eating a lot of soups and salads at the moment and I would like to share these easy, delicious recipes with you. He is not allowed to eat to much spice, curry, garlic and wild herbs...but I've put them in the recipes for you....its just better that way....

Soup for 2:
Preparation time: preparation and cooking +-20 min.

Ingredients:

1. 3 cups (750 ml) of Beef Stock
2. 1-2 cloves of garlic, crushed OR half a tea-spoon of pre-crushed garlic
3. half a teaspoon of mild crushed chillies
4. a Small bunch of spring onions, about 5, chopped finely.
5. 1-2 leeks, depending on size, chopped finely
6. a quarter broccoli head, only cut flowers into tiny pieces, not the stems.
7. 4 mini corns, cut into pieces
8. 250 gr tenderized steak/minute steaks, cut into strips
9. one hand uncooked noodles - whatever you fancy, glass noodles...thick noodles or No noodles
10. Ground black pepper and salt to taste.
11. Ground Coriander seeds - powder
12. Small bunch of fresh Coriander/Dhania, about 5 stems with leaves - chop it...
13. 1 stem of Celery...yes, chopped
14. Little bit of Mild Curry powder.
15. 1 lemon

* Try to use natural sea salt flakes in all your cooking. It is a bit more expensive...but much more healthy.

Bring water/stock to the boil. Add garlic, chillies, spring onions, leeks, broccoli, corns. Taste water for beefy taste....if necessary, add stock powder to enhance flavour. Let it cook while you do the rest of the preparation. It does not need to be cooked for long...just until the corn is done.

Sprinkle beef with curry powder, lemon, pepper, coriander powder and salt. Sear Beef strips in a little butter/oil, you can even ad a few drops of water to use less butter. Take of heat. Do not add to soup yet - the meat will get tough if cooked.

You can either cook your noodles/pasta separately OR add them to the soup 10 min before serving. If they cook to long/stay in the soup...it will gets soggy, and that's frowned upon :). I cook my noodles separately and then just add it to each bowl of soup when I dish.

Add the chopped Coriander and Celery 3 min before you serve - you want the flavour to be released, but you do not want it to get lost...so do not let it boil for to long.

Add beef strips and noodles.

Eat. Enjoy.

Interesting facts about Coriander:

This WONDERFUL, annual herb is easy to grow but do not plant it next to your fennel.
The seed, stems, leaves AND flowers are all edible.
Not only is it a must in curries, but delicious in salads, soups and much more!
Coriander also has medicinal uses - it eases flatulence, tea/soup helps for rheumatism and arthritis and by the seeds/flowers help for a garlic breath.