Thai-style prawn broth, Spicy apples

Spicy apples

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

Thai broth

• 150 g onions, cut in halves
• 20 - 30 g fresh ginger, thinly sliced
• 1 fresh chilli, deseeded
• 15 g olive oil
• 800 g raw prawns with heads and shells, peeled
• 1400 g water
• 40 g rice vinegar
• 30 g fish sauce
• 2 cloves
• 1 star anise
• 3 pinches salt, adjust to taste
• 3 pinches ground black pepper, adjust to taste
• 80 g dried Chinese egg noodles
• 2 pinches wakame flakes, dried (optional)
• 100 g fresh soybean sprouts
• 15 fresh coriander leaves