My wife and I love to travel, one of the best things about traveling is getting to try new foods that aren’t available in our city. One of our favorite dishes is pho. Pho (pronounced fuh as in fun without the “n”) is a Vietnamese noodle soup.
When we travel to different cities, we often look up pho restaurants on Yelp and order some. We have had pho in 5 different states. If you haven’t noticed, we really like it.
Where we currently live – Jonesboro, Arkansas – we cannot get pho, so we decided to take a shot at making our own. We scoured the interwebs and pieced together a recipe from many different ones that we saw.
Though it was not exactly the same as we get at a restaurant, it was still pretty good. If you have any suggestions to improve upon what we have come up with, please tell us, because we want to have a great pho recipe.
Below I will tell you what we used.
Do it yourself (faux) Phô.
I used:
8 cups of unsalted beef stock
1 onion
3 whole cloves
4 star anise
1 cinnamon stick
1 ginger root
4 minced garlic gloves
1 tablespoon of fish sauce
1lb of round eye beef
Rice noodles
Bean sprouts
1/2 of a lime
Fresh basil
Hoisin sauce
Sriracha sauce
Directions:
Cut onions into thin rings
Peel ginger
Mince the garlic
Put ginger, garlic, cinnamon, anise, and cloves into a cheesecloth and tie
Bring beef stock to a boil with fish sauce, onions, and the cheesecloth full of spices, covered, for 45 minutes to an hour (reduce to medium heat after brought to boil)
Slice beef into very thin slices
Put rice noodles in already boiling water for 1-2 minutes, then rinse with cold water and separate into the bowls
Put the uncooked beef on top of the noodles
Pour the boiling stock (minus the cheesecloth) onto the meat and noodles
Add desired garnishments and sauces
Worldwide Huff 