Vietnamese soup with fish balls | jadomasak.my.id

Ingredients

• 500g snapper fillets, pin-boned, skinned
• 1 clove garlic, thinly sliced
• 1cm piece ginger, finely grated
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup mint leaves, finely chopped
• 450g packet fresh rice noodles (see note)
• 2 spring onions, cut into 5cm lengths
• Thinly sliced long red chilli (optional), to serve
• 2 tablespoons peanut oil
• 1 red onion, finely chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 2cm piece ginger, finely grated
• 2 cinnamon quills
• 5 star anise
• 100g shiitake mushrooms, halved
• 2 tablespoons caster sugar
• 125ml (1/2 cup) soy sauce
• 1L chicken stock