Thai-style Prawn Broth, Spiced Apples

Spiced Apples

• 4 cooking apples (e.g. Bramley)
• 2 tsp vanilla sugar, homemade
• 4 star anise
• 4 pinches ground ginger
• 4 cloves
• 4 pinches ground cinnamon

Thai Broth

• 150 g onions quartered
• 20 - 30 g fresh root ginger peeled, cut in round slices (2 mm)
• 1 fresh chilli deseeded
• 15 g olive oil
• 800 g raw prawns, unpeeled
• 1400 g water
• 40 g rice vinegar
• 30 g fish sauce
• 2 cloves
• 1 star anise
• 3 pinches salt or to taste
• 3 pinches ground black pepper or to taste
• 80 g dried Chinese egg noodles
• 2 pinches wakame flakes (optionnel)
• 100 g fresh bean sprouts
• 15 fresh coriander leaves only