Phở

Phở is a Vietnamese beef noodle soup.

Ingredients

For 3 people, you need:

• 300g beef eye fillet (de: Rinderfilet)
• 500g chicken legs (3 pieces)
• 500g rice noodles
• 8 spring onions
• 3 red onions
• Sprigs of fresh mint and/or Asian/Thai basil
• 3-5 star anise
• 25g ginger
• 4 red hot chili peppers
• 1 lemon
• 1 cinnamon stick
• Hoisin sauce (e.g. Lee Kum Kee brand)
• Fish sauce
• Sugar
• Salt
• 4L water
• For each person a rather big bowl

Tools

• A pot which can contain roughly 4L
• Ladle
• A sieve
• A small "sauce plate" (bowl) for sauce (less than 100ml)

Preparation

For all of the following, you will need roughly 1h.

Rice noodles:

1. Put the rice noodles for 15min in warm water.
2. Sieve the noodles out of the water and shock the noodles.
3. Let the noodles dry.
4. Pour boiling water over the noodles.
5. Let the noodles dry.

Beef: Remove the sinews and cut it into approximately 3mm thin slices.

Broth:

1. Peel the red onions - do not cut them, though!
2. Put 4L of water in the pot and heat it until it is simmering.
3. Put the chicken, 3 spring onions, the red onions, 2 chili peppers, the cinnamon stick, half a spoon of sugar and a bit of salt in the water. The chicken should be covered with water.
4. Let it cook for 30min.

Preparations:

• Cut 5 of the 8 spring onions into small cylinders (roughly 5mm high)
• Remove the chicken from the broth, remove the skin, and cut it into bite-sized pieces
• Put the beef briefly in the bowl. You should see how the color of the beef changes from red to gray.
• Put a bit of fish sauce in the sauce plate and mix it with one chili pepper

Serve (for each person):

1. Put some noodles in a bowl
2. Pour broth over it
3. Sprinkle some of the cut spring onions over the noodles
4. Squeeze some lemon juice over the meal
5. Put beef / chicken over the meal
6. Decorate with the mint/basil

People can then put additional fish sauce in their bowl as they like.