Broth
Preparation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: about 2 hours

The soup is good if the broth is good. Peaple can cook the broth in advance to use later in many cases.

Chicken and pork meat have quite similar tastes as well as some root vegetables have. We can use the broth to process many kinds of sauce and soup such as crab soup, asparagus crab soup, pork hu tieu soup, pork noodles, rib with root vegetables soup, etc.

To make 1.5 liters of broth, we need:
Ingredients
1.4 kg (3 lbs) soup bone )which can be used to cook soup), finely-chopped , well-washed
½ teaspoon salt (optional)
1 ginger root of thumb-size
2 onions, peeled, cut into 4 parts
450g (1 lb) daikon, cut into large cubes
3 shallots, peeled and grilled to brown
Pinch of salt

Recipe
Add bones and 2 liters of water to a pot, bring to a boil for 5 minutes. Then, remove the pot from heat and pour off the water.

Add 2 liters of water to the pot with bones. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat and let the mixture boil slightly. Simmer over low heat for about an hour (Do not cover with a lid because the broth can be opaque). Use a ladle to remove the foam from the surface until the broth is clear. Add daikon and grilled shallots. Continue cooking for abour an hour.

Grill the ginger, cut into pieces, smashed and put in the pot. Add salt. Then, put onions in the pot. Boil the mixture.

Pick the daikon and onions up. Filter the broth and boil it again.