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- Cuisine: Vietnamese
- Serves 4-6
Prefer the taste of beef? Beef pho is comfort food for chef Luke Nguyen, who demonstrates how to make pho in Hanoi. You might also like Angie Hong's light, fragrant pho recipe, as seen on Food Safari.
Ingredients
Stock1 small chicken; or two chicken frames from leftover roast chicken
500g chicken mince
4 red shallots, unpeeled
5cm piece ginger, unpeeled
1 star anise
1 tbsp coriander seeds
4 whole cloves (or 1 black cardamom pod)
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tsp rock sugar
3.5L water
Salt and MSG, to taste
To serve
200g flat rice noodles (banh pho, if you can get it), cooked
2 chicken breasts
Sprigs of Vietnamese mint
2 sprigs coriander
2 sprigs sawtooth coriander
2 sprigs rice paddy herb (ngo om)
Fishwort
Bean sprouts
Spring onion, sliced finely
1 onion, sliced finely, soaked in cold water
Chillies, sliced
Limes, cut into wedges
Preparation
Debone the chicken and finely chop the meat. Run it through a meat mincer if you have one.Put the red shallots and ginger directly onto a gas burner (or electric stovetop, if you’re not too precious) until the skin blackens. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Remove and discard the burnt skin.
Put the star anise, coriander seeds and cloves into your pressure cooker, and toast over low heat until the seeds become fragrant.
Add the chicken, onion, ginger, fish sauce, rock sugar and water. Seal the pressure cooker and cook for 45 minutes, reducing the heat if steam escapes rapidly from the release valve.
Remove the pressure cooker from the heat and allow depressurising. Meanwhile, poach the chicken breasts and slice finely.
Arrange noodles in the bowls and top with the sliced, poached chicken. Place the herbs, spring onion, onion, chilli and lime on a serving plate.
Once the pot has fully depressurised, remove the lid and strain the stock through a fine mesh sieve. Add salt and MSG to taste. Add the stock to the bowls and serve.
If you enjoyed this Speedy chicken pho recipe then browse more Vietnamese recipes, soup recipes, noodle and dumpling recipes, entertaining recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.
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