The Phở beef

For 8 servings
Preparation: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 6:00

Ingredients:

• 2.3 kilograms of bone beef bouillon (with or without marrow)
• 450 g of tender beef
• 900 g of fresh flat rice noodles (or 450 g dried rice noodles)
• 4 teaspoons dried seasoning
• 200 g fresh soybeans sprouts
• 200 g of aromatic herbs (basil, long coriander)
• 2 onions, thinly sliced
• 2 tablespoons chili sauce Coffee
• 3 lemons, quartered
• 2 large peppers, sliced
• 1 bunch of young onions
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 4 red onions, grilled well
• 1 piece of ginger (5 cm), toasted and crushed
• 1 teaspoon ground pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 6 star anise (or 2 teaspoons of anise powder)
• 5 cloves
• 3 brown cardamom, crushed
• 1 piece of cinnamon (about 7.5 cm)

Production :

1. Wash the bones, boil them in water 5 minutes, then throw the water. Pour 4 liters of fresh water in the pot, bring to boil. Boil on low heat for 4 hours, remove the froth. Then, add the meat, ginger and grilled onions continue to cook for 1 hour and a half.
2. Quickly brown the star anise, cinnamon and brown cardamom in a saucepan, add 2 cups water and cook for 20 minutes. Filter this water and add to the broth (or add the dehydrated seasoning cubes Phở). Continue cooking for 10 hours. Remove the meat and cut it into thin slices.
3. Strain the broth, bring it to boil. Season with dehydrated seasoning and salt.
4. Blanch the bean sprouts, pour them into a colander, let drain. Wash the spring onions. Cut the white part and blanch it. Cut the green part into small pieces.
5. Soak the dried flat rice noodles in water for 20 minutes, then rinse them in boiling water (you need only pass the fresh rice noodles in boiling water). And serve them immediately.
6. Put some bean sprouts at the bottom of a large bowl, add, above, rice pasta. Then place the meat, spring onions and sliced ​​onion. Sprinkle with burning broth. Pepper and sprinkle with chopped spring onions. Serve the soup with a plate with basil, long coriander, lemon and soy sauces and chili.

Remarks:

• You can cut the raw beef, very tender into thin slices, place on rice pasta, sprinkled with the hot broth to the meat is just entering. They call this method "Phở tái.
• The dehydrated seasoning cubes for Phở are on sale in all Asian food stores.