How much to cook pho soup?
It takes 6 hours to cook pho soup.
How to make pho soup
Products
Beef (brisket) - 1 kilogram
Oxtail - 300 grams
Rice noodles - 250 grams
Brain beef bone - 300 grams
Onions - 1 head for broth, 1 for decorating soup
Parsnip - 2 pieces
Thai fish sauce - 2 tablespoons
Ginger root - 40 grams
Badian - 2 stars
Whole cloves - 5 pieces
Cinnamon - 1 stick, 5 centimeters long
Salt - 1 teaspoon
How to cook pho soup in a saucepan
1. Wash meat and bones in cold water.
2. Pour the bones and tail with cold water, boil, reduce heat and cook for 10 minutes.
3. Drain the first broth.
4. Pour cold water over the bones again, bring to a boil again and remove the foam; reduce heat and cook broth for 1 hour.
5. While the broth is preparing, peel two onions and bake them with ginger in the oven for 5 minutes at 180 degrees.
6. Peel the parsnips.
7. Add meat pulp, fish sauce, star anise stars, cloves, cinnamon, parsnips, baked onions and ginger to the broth.
8. When the broth boils, reduce the temperature and simmer for another hour, then remove all ingredients (including spices) from the pan and leave only the bones and tails.
Cook for another 3 hours, periodically removing fat from the surface of the broth.
9. Cool the brisket for 10 minutes in cold water. After that, wrap the meat in plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator for 2.5 hours.
10. Remove the brisket from the refrigerator, release it from the film and cut it into half a centimeter thick plastics.
11. Pour rice noodles with cold water and leave for half an hour.
12. Drain the rice noodles and put them in boiling water for 1 minute, then drain and rinse with cold water.
13. Remove the bones from the broth and strain it through cheesecloth, remove the meat from the bones and return to the broth, boil for a minute and turn off the heat.
Your pho soup is cooked! Serve garnished with chopped onions and herbs.
Facts about pho soup
- Pho soup is served in portioned bowls, noodles with pieces of meat are placed on the bottom, poured with broth, and the top is decorated with cilantro, onions, lime pieces and holopeno peppers. Soy sauce and chili sauce are served on the table, where everyone can add them to their plate according to their own taste.- The origin of pho soup is associated with the French colonialists, who taught the Vietnamese to use beef for food. Before that, the Vietnamese treated cows like working animals.
- The name of pho soup is most likely associated with the French word "feu", which in translation means "fire". Additional confirmation of this theory is that in the original Soup recipes recommend using fried onions.
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Last update Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova