Healthy meatball & noodle soup - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 1 batch of meatballs (see recipe in 'Goes well with'))
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• thumb-sized piece of ginger, peeled and finely grated
• 8 spring onions, finely sliced
• 2 star anise
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 lemongrass sticks, tough outer leaves removed and finely sliced
• 1-2 green chillies (seeds removed if you prefer less heat), finely sliced
• small bunch of coriander, leaves and stalks separated, both finely chopped
• 1 tbsp light brown soft sugar
• 1¼ litres beef stock
• 1-2 tsp fish sauce
• 1 tsp soy sauce, plus extra to serve
• 2 handfuls of ready-to-eat beansprouts
• 3 rice noodle nests
• 1 lime, cut into wedges