Recipe

Pho Bo Vietnamese Beef And Rice Noodle Soup Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Chefelaine / All my dishes 1 year ago Traditional Vietnamese beef soup, healthy, and delicious, this soup is easy to make, and your family will love it! Prep:20m Cook:20m Servings:12	Chefelaine
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Ingredients

3 qt Beef broth

12 each Fresh ginger root slices

3 each Lemongrass stalks coarsely chopped

6 oz Shallots sliced thin, with additional as desired for garnish

1 each Cinnamon stick

3 oz Nuoc nam (Vietnamese fish sauce) or nam pla (Thai fish sauce)

Salt to taste

1.5 lb Beef tenderloin or other tender beef steak , raw

1.5 lb Rice sticks (like rice 'spaghetti')

as desired each Mung bean sprouts for garnish

as desired each Fresh mint leaves for garnish

as desired each Fresh cilantro leaves for garnish

as desired each Fresh red chiles seeded and sliced thin, for garnish

as desired each Lime wedges for garnish

as desired each Chile paste with garlic for garnish

Directions

Combine the broth, ginger, lemon grass, shallots, and cinnamon stick in a stockpot.

Simmer 30 minutes.

Strain. Discard the solids.

Add the fish sauce.

Taste and add salt if necessary

Partially freeze the beef to make it easier to slice.

Slice the beef into paper-thin slices.

Just before serving, drop the rice sticks into boiling water.

Bring the water back to a boil and drain immediately.

bring the broth back to a boil.

Place each garnish in a separate bowl and arrange on the dining table.

Place 2 oz beef slices in the bottom of each soup bowl.

Ladle 8 fl oz broth over the beef slices.

The boiling broth cooks the beef in moments.

Add rice noodles to the bowl.

Allow guests to help themselves to garnishes to flavor soup as desired.

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Comments

charrm1 1 year ago said:
I love these kind of soups. Thanks for sharing.

marky90 1 year ago said:
Love this, use to order this all the timw wehn I lived in southern California..Thx-Marky

peetabear 1 year ago said:
Sounds good like the rice noodles... five spoons for you

lasaf 1 year ago said:
I used to work with a Hmong gentleman that gave me most of these ingredients when I asked him for a good Hmong recipe. It was very good. However he tried to teach me to pronounce pho correctly. According to his laughter this MinnesOtan was not capable of saying it right.