Vietnamese
Chicken Pho
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Char the onion and ginger under the broiler or in a dry pan until blackened in spots, about 5 minutes.
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Toast the star anise, cinnamon, cloves, and coriander in a dry pot until fragrant, 1 minute.
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Add the chicken, charred onion and ginger, fish sauce, salt, and water, and simmer gently for 45 minutes.
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Remove the chicken, shred the meat, and strain the broth.
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Soak the rice noodles in hot water until tender, then divide among bowls with the shredded chicken.
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Ladle the hot broth over the top and serve with bean sprouts, Thai basil, lime, jalapeno, and cilantro.
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Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Pho, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Pho carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 310 kcal
- Protein
- 20 g
- Carbs
- 40 g
- Fat
- 8 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 890 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken Pho takes about 90 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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