Faux Chicken and Shrimp Pho

"This is my quick version of chicken pho, which is a fragrant, hearty Vietnamese inspired soup that can be eaten any time of the year. The broth is made fragrant with spices, ginger, garlic and veggies, which you can choose to keep, or toss. The spices/ginger/garlic can be contained in cheesecloth, or a tea infuser. This can be made low carb by omitting the noodles."
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
16
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Bring large pot of water to boil, then remove from heat.
  • Add noodles to the pot; let stand until tender, about 15 minutes, then drain and set aside in a large serving bowl.
  • Combine chicken broth, onion slices, fish sauce, sliced baby carrots and chicken in a soup pot; bring to a simmer.
  • In a cheesecloth or tea infuser, add the whole cloves, sliced ginger, garlic, star anise and place in the soup pot with the chicken.
  • Simmer the chicken, vegetables and spice mixture for about 30 minutes, until chicken is tender and cooked through.
  • Remove chicken and cool it until you can cut into cubes; place back into the simmering soup pot.
  • Remove the cheesecloth or tea infuser, discard ingredients inside.
  • Add bean sprouts and shrimp and simmer for about 5 more minutes.
  • Ladle the soup into the large serving bowl with the noodles.
  • Add the green onions, cilantro and mint leaves to the serving bowl.
  • Serve with fresh lime wedges.

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Reviews

  1. YUM! This was absolutely delicious. My whole family loved it. I used only chicken, because I didn't have any shrimp, and I put a 3rd piece of star anise in because we love the broth really flavorful. Thank you for a great recipe!
     
  2. This was easy to make and a new family fave. Thank you MNLisaB for posting!
     
  3. This has become one of my family favs. We try to have it at least once a week for lunch and dinner.
     
  4. We loved this! The only ways we deviated from the recipe were to throw in some chopped baby bok choy, add 8 cups of chicken broth and 2 cups of water instead of 10 cups broth (we ran out of broth), and to cook the noodles directly in the broth at the very end of the simmering process. That idea with the noodles probably wasn't the greatest thing we could have done, as the noodles sucked up all the broth pretty quick, but it's still delicious.
     
  5. very tasty soup....we added fresh lemongrass but other than that followed exactly. Really is a keeper Thanks for posting
     
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Tweaks

  1. I made this for dinner last night and it came out delicious. I changed a few of the ingredients to assure that the broth tasted like Pho and not chicken soup. Instead of chicken broth, I used Pho broth. You can find this at any Asian market. The flavor that it gave was rich. I also made sure to get the fish sauce that had less sodium. If you look at the reviews you notice that the soup has over 1,000mg of sodium, so by looking closely at the fish sauce label you can choose one that is healthier. Another Ingredient that I added was Basil that was added at the end to intensify the pho broth. Other than these 3 differences I followed the recipe step by step with all the ingredients and it came out Perfect.
     
  2. We loved this! The only ways we deviated from the recipe were to throw in some chopped baby bok choy, add 8 cups of chicken broth and 2 cups of water instead of 10 cups broth (we ran out of broth), and to cook the noodles directly in the broth at the very end of the simmering process. That idea with the noodles probably wasn't the greatest thing we could have done, as the noodles sucked up all the broth pretty quick, but it's still delicious.
     

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