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Soto Brunei

Name: Soto Brunei
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Brunei
Ingredients: 300g Beef Shank; 200g Flat Rice Noodles; 1/2 bag Bean sprouts; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 knob Ginger; 1 Cinnamon stick; 1 Star anise; 3 Clove; 2 tsp Salt; 1 Lime; 1.5L Water; A pinch Fried Garlic

Noodles

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Rice noodles in spiced beef broth — Brunei's breakfast noodles.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Soto is a spiced soup dish found across Indonesia and Malaysia; in Brunei, soto Brunei — rice noodles or rice vermicelli in a clear broth of simmered beef — is a beloved breakfast. It's finished with fried shallots, celery leaves, and chili and eaten with a squeeze of lime.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a morning stall in Brunei, bowls of noodles in steaming beef broth are served one after another as customers squeeze in lime.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Beef Shank 300g
Flat Rice Noodles 200g
Bean sprouts 1/2 bag
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Ginger 1 knob
Cinnamon stick 1
Star anise 1
Clove 3
Salt 2 tsp
Lime 1
Water 1.5L
Fried Garlic A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Put the beef, water, halved onion, garlic, ginger, and spices in a pot and simmer 1 1/2 hours, skimming.
Remove the beef and slice thinly; season the broth with salt.
Boil the rice noodles and briefly blanch the bean sprouts.
Put the noodles, bean sprouts, and beef in bowls and pour over the hot broth.
Scatter with fried garlic and serve with lime.

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