vietnamese beef noodle soup

Okay, after last night's false start tonight is the night we get healthy. Ana even says she feels healthy eating it, so the pounds must be dropping off with each spoonful, particularly that packet of Percy Pigs and extra-calorific M&S doorstop I ate at lunchtime. Swings, roundabouts.

I love it, mainly because it's one of those dishes with maximum flavour quotient to minimum prep time. Not only that it positively vibrates with healthy things; ginger, chilli, lemon grass and other fragrant Asian spices, the beef is ridiculously tender and even better, it's ready in about 20 minutes tops!

Healthy, quick and leaves you enough room to have some chocolate for pudding - what's not to like?

sources
vietnamese beef noodle soup - Waitrose Kitchen, Feburary 2012, p88