Chinese Braised Beef Noodle Soup

Ingredients

• 2 beef shanks boneless, about 1 1/2 or 2 pounds each, it’s just as easy to make two – uses the same amount of sauce and freezes well
• 1/2 cup Kikkoman Soy Sauce
• 1/2 cup wine traditionally rice wine, such as shao xing; but my mom uses sake and says any wine will do
• 2 cups water
• 2 whole green onions ends trimmed
• 4 slices ginger
• 10 Sichuan peppercorns
• 1 anise seed optional
• chinese noodles preferably fresh refrigerated wheat noodles, but you can also used dried wheat or rice noodles
• chicken broth my mom likes Swanson, one can for every two servings
• water
• salt
• pepper
• soy sauce
• greens eg spinach, napa cabbage, bok choy
• scallions Slivered, or chives

Nutrition

• Calories : 190 calories
• Carbohydrate : 20 grams
• Fat : 4.5 grams
• Fiber : 4 grams
• Protein : 14 grams
• Sodium : 4650 milligrams
• Sugar : 3 grams