🇻🇳 Vietnam recipe

Pho Bo (Beef Pho)

Vietnam's national dish, pho bo is a profoundly aromatic beef noodle soup built on a broth of charred onions, ginger, and warm spices simmered with beef bones for hours. Silky flat rice noodles are bathed in the fragrant broth, then topped with paper-thin slices of raw beef that cook in the steaming liquid, alongside fresh herbs, bean sprouts, and a squeeze of lime.

Prep45 mins
Cook3 hours 30 mins
Serves6
Difficultyhard
Pho Bo (Beef Pho), a Vietnam dish

Ingredients

  • 2 kg beef marrow and knuckle bones
  • 500 g beef brisket, whole piece
  • 200 g beef sirloin, thinly sliced (for serving)
  • 2 large yellow onions, halved
  • 150 g fresh ginger, halved lengthwise
  • 4 whole star anise
  • 6 whole cloves
  • 1 cinnamon stick (about 8 cm)
  • 1 tbsp coriander seeds
  • 1 tbsp fennel seeds
  • 1 black cardamom pod
  • 75 ml fish sauce
  • 15 g rock sugar
  • 500 g dried flat rice noodles (banh pho)
  • 200 g bean sprouts
  • 1 bunch fresh Thai basil
  • 1 bunch fresh cilantro
  • 2 limes, cut into wedges
  • 2 fresh red chilies, thinly sliced

Method

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Nutrition per serving

Calories
480
Protein
32 g
Carbs
55 g
Fat
14 g

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