Vietnamese Pho
- Reviews 4
Ready In: 0 mins
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 5 lbs beef bones with marrow
- 5 lbs oxtails
- 1 lb flank steak
- 2 large onions, unpeeled, halved, and studded with 8 cloves
- 3 shallots, unpeeled
- 2 ounces ginger, unpeeled (1 piece)
- 8 teaspoons star anise
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 4 medium parsnips, cut in 2-inch-chunks
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 lb beef sirloin
- 2 scallions, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon cilantro, chopped
- 2 medium onions, thinly sliced
- 1⁄4 cup hot chili sauce
- 1 lb rice noodles (1/4-inch wide (or banh pho))
- 1⁄2 cup nuoc nam (Vietnamese fish-sauce)
- black pepper, freshly ground
- 2 cups fresh bean sprouts
- 2 fresh chili peppers, sliced
- 2 limes, cut in wedges
- 1 bunch of fresh mint
- 1 bunch fresh Asian basil or 1 bunch regular basil
Directions
- Soak bone overnight in cold water.
- Place bones, oxtails and flank steak in a large stock pot. Add SALTED BOILING water to cover and bring to a boil. Better yet, boil water, add salt then add bones. Marinate oxtails and flank steak with fish sauce, sugar, black pepper.
- Cook 5 minutes, drain and rinse pot and bones.
- Return bones to pot, add 6 quarts COLD WATER and bring to a boil. Skim surface of scum and fat. Stir bones at bottom. After 1 hour of simmering, add oxtails & flank steak.
- The ginger root, shallots, and onion need to be roasted. The ginger root until the outer layer peels off easily. The onion until outer layer is semi-burnt. About 3 min. Roast the anise seeds in a pan for 2 min. Add to broth while waiting to boil.
- Meanwhile, slice beef sirloin against grain into paper-thin slices, about 2-by-2 inches. Slice flank steak the same way; that is after they are cooked for about 1 hour.
- Set aside. In a small bowl, combine scallions, cilantro, and half the sliced onions.
- Place remaining onions in another bowl and mix in hot chili sauce. Soak rice noodles in water. When broth is ready, discard bones.
- Strain broth through a colander lined with a double layer of damp cheesecloth into a clean pot. Add fish sauce and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to simmer.
- In another pot, bring 4 quarts of water to a boil.
- Add noodles and drain immediately.
- Do not overcook noodles
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