Vietnamese Pho Bo Soup With Beef: A Step-by-step Recipe At Home With Photo And Video

2025 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:41

Unique Vietnamese pho bo soup with beef: we delight loved ones with an unusual lunch

To go beyond traditional first courses and really surprise your family, you can make Vietnamese Pho bo soup with beef. Rich broth, appetizing pieces of meat, rice noodles, vegetables, spices … The aroma of this dish alone drives you crazy, what can we say about its taste.

Step-by-step recipe for making Vietnamese pho bo soup with beef

I tried this unusual dish with a rich taste and aroma for the first time in one of the restaurants specializing in Asian cuisine. The soup impressed me so much that I wanted to definitely learn how to cook it myself, so that at any time I could again enjoy this incomparable creation of culinary experts.

Ingredients:

• 500 g of beef on the bone;
• 500 g of beef pulp;
• 3 liters of water;
• 2 heads of onions;
• 150 g rice noodles;
• 50 g ginger;
• 2-3 stalks of green onions;
• 100 g bean sprouts;
• 1 lime;
• 1 chilli pod
• 1 bunch of parsley;
• 1 bunch of mint;
• 1 bunch of basil
• 5 tbsp. l. fish sauce;
• 4 tbsp. l. chili sauce;
• 6 dried clove buds;
• 2 star anise stars;
• 1 cinnamon stick;
• 1 tbsp. l. granulated sugar;
• 1 tbsp. l. salt.

Preparation:

1. Pour the beef on the bone with water and cook for 2 hours.

   

   To make the beef tender, cook the meat for at least 2 hours

2. Cut the beef pulp into several large pieces.

   

   To facilitate the further cooking process, cut the beef pulp into several pieces

3. Peel the ginger.

   

   Cut off the thin skin of the ginger in any way you like

4. Cut one onion in half.

   

   One onion just needs to be cut in half

5. Place the onion halves in a dry skillet and fry until the slices turn brown. Dry the cloves, star anise and cinnamon at the same time.

   

   Heat treatment of onions and spices in the same pan saves a little time

6. Remove the beef and bone from the pan. In the same broth, dip pieces of beef pulp, fried onions, spices, ginger, add fish sauce, salt and sugar.

   

   Beef pulp with additives should cook for about an hour

7. Bring it to a boil and cook over low heat for an hour.
8. Cut the remaining onion into rings.

9. Chop the green onion feathers. Cut the lime into wedges. Cut the chili pod into rings.

   

   Chop green onions into small rings

10. Separate the basil and mint leaves from the stems.

    

    For the soup, you only need green leaves, you don't need twigs

11. Transfer the noodles to a saucepan with boiling salted water, cook for 3 minutes, discard in a colander.

    

    Rice noodles cook in minutes

12. Remove the boiled beef pulp from the pan, strain the broth.

    

    After removing the meat, do not forget to strain the broth through a sieve or cheesecloth

13. Separate the beef from the bone and connective tissue, cut into small pieces together with the pulp.

    

    Cut meat for soup into small pieces of arbitrary shape

14. Spread the noodles, onions, hot peppers, bean sprouts into bowls, squeeze the juice of one lime wedge into each serving, add 1-2 tsp. chili sauce.
15. Pour the hot broth over the ingredients.

16. Garnish the soup with mint and basil.

    

    Garnish the soup with fresh basil and mint before serving

Video: Vietnamese pho bo soup

Vietnamese pho bo soup is a great idea to diversify your lunch menu. Despite the fact that you will have to spend a considerable amount of time preparing the dish, this dish will fully meet all expectations. Bon Appetit!