Quick Pho Ga

Vietnamese noodle soup with chicken

Vietnam

Main course
4 persons
35
Medium

Vietnam's most famous dish is undoubtedly Pho soup. The Vietnamese eat it at any time of the day and, of course, vary a lot with the ingredients that go into the soup. In this variation, we make the soup with chicken (in Vietnamese Ga). By working with ready-made stock cubes, this delicious Vietnamese Pho Ga is ready in no time!

Ingredients

400 g Beef shank

250 g Soup meat

3 L Water

2 Large brown onion (unpeeled halved)

Salt according to taste

60 g Ginger (unpeeled & cut into slices)

4 cloves Garlic (medium-size)

4 Carrots (unpeeled, washed cut into pieces)

160 g Steak

2 Stems Spring onion

2 Red onions (thinly sliced)

150 g Bean sprouts

2 sprigs of fresh coriander

2 sprigs of fresh mint leaves

2 small red chillies

2 Lime (cut into 6 parts)

Preparation method for Quick Pho Ga

Wash the shin of beef and the meat for soup with lukewarm water and put in a pan. Add the onion, star anise, cloves, ginger, carrots, coriander seeds, cinna mon stick, salt and peppercorns. Then add 1,5 liter water and bring everything to the boil. Let simmer the stock during 90 minutes and then take the pan off the heat. Sieve the stock.
Soak the rice noodles in lukewarm water and drain them.
Bring the stock again to the boil and add the fish sauce.
Bring a large pan filled for three-quarter with water to the boil and add the rice noodles. Cook the rice noodles until ready, but make sure that they don’t beco me too mushy!
Cut the steak into wafer-thin slices and put them aside.
Divide the rice noodles, bean sprouts, raw onion rings, cut spring onions and thinly sliced steak into the soup bowls.
Pour the boiling stock over it and garnish with coriander and mint.