Pho Soup Recipe

Our family has a severe addiction to pho soup but with two tweens and two adults, the bill to keep up with this addiction can get expensive! I have been experimenting for months and have came with the perfect combo to making my own version of pho soup right at home for  a fraction of the cost. I don't measure anything and typically go by taste and smell but I estimated the amount of each ingredient below. This recipe is for one of those big black pots with white dots that you normally make big batches of stew in. All you need is the following:

• 2 bunches of green onions
• 4-5 organic chicken bouillon cubes
• 4-6 tbs fish sauce
• 1 inch of ginger
• 4-6 chicken breasts (cut up into small pieces)
• 2 bags of pho spice
• 2 bunches of cilantro
• 2 packs of pho rice noodles
• bean sprouts
• chilli peppers
• sriracha sauce
• limes cut into wedges
• salt to taste

Fill the water to about 1 inch from the top and add all ingredients on the list from green onions and stop after adding the cilantro. I just cut everything and put it all together. It doesn't take long for the water to start boiling so I put the temperature down a bit and just let it simmer for about an hour so all the spices come out from the pho spice bags. 

In a separate pot I bring water to a boil and the add the pho noodles. They only take about 3-5 minutes to cook.  You want to run them through cold water for a few minutes because they will get slimmy and as they cool they will start to stick together. I learned that the hard way.

Once everything is ready you put your noodles in a bowl, add the soup and garnish with your bean sprouts, chilli peppers, sriracha sauce and squeeze the juice from a few wedges of lime. Voilà!! So good.  You can also add some cuts of thinly sliced beef like they do in the restaurant and the hot soup broth will cook the meat. Bon apetit! :)

This is the pho spice that I was using but there are a variety of them at the market. They don't offer this one anymore and I am now using a combination of 2 different spice bags but I didn't have any left in my cupboard to post.

Here is when we do just the the bean sprouts. chilli and lime wedges.

    

And this is when we get legit and add the thin slices of beef! lol

                                                                      

Here is the end result! Mmmm! :)