We are making Pho, a much-beloved Vietnamese soup. Using chicken wings and aromatic vegetables, we’ll make a delicious soup quickly and easily. This soup is lightly seasoned but exceptionally tasty. It goes well with the flat rice noodles, and it is very delicious!
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Chicken Pho Recipe (Vietnamese Rice Noodle Soup with Japanese-inspired Chicken Broth)
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Ingredients
Broth
800 ml Water 3 Chicken Wings 1 Chicken Thigh trim off the excess fat, net weight 240g/8.5 oz 3 slices Ginger Root 3 Garlic Cloves 1/2 Onion cut into 1 cm (0.4") slices across the grain Coriander Roots or coriander stalks 1 sheet Dashi Kombu Seaweed 10x5cm/3.9x2 inches 2 tbsp Sake 1 tsp Chicken Stock Powder (Granulated) 1 tbsp Nuoc Mam (Fish Sauce) Vietnamese pungent sauce made from fermented fish, substitute: nam pla (Thai fish sauce) 1 tsp Salt
Noodles
150-200 g Dried Rice Noodles
Toppings
1/4 Red Onion sliced Salted Fresh Wakame Seaweed check out our seaweed salad to remove the salt. 100 g Moyashi Bean Sprouts lightly boiled Coriander Leaves Spring Onion Leaves chopped 1/4 Lemon or lime Black Pepper Hot Chili Sauce packaged
* 1 tablespoon (tbsp) = 15 ml, 1 teaspoon (tsp) = 5 ml
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Instructions
- First, let's prepare the chicken. Rinse the chicken wings with water and wipe off the moisture beforehand.
- Cut between the joints with a kitchen knife to detach the tip.
- Then, make a cut along the bones in the wings and separate the joints at the ends. This will help the savory umami flavor to come out easily. The preparation of the chicken wings is important. It takes a bit of work, but please do not skip it.
- Place the chicken wings in boiling water. Lightly stir with kitchen chopsticks.
- When the surface turns white, remove, and place them onto a tray.
- Remove any blood or stains on the meat with a paper towel.
- Next, let's make the delicious chicken broth. Put 800 ml (3.38 cups) of water in a pot and add the prepared chicken wings.
- These are ginger slices, garlic cloves, coriander roots, onion slices cut across the grain, and dashi kombu seaweed.
- Put the aromatic vegetables and kombu into the pot.
- Add the chicken thigh and sake.
- Finally, add a small amount of granulated chicken stock powder to really bring out the flavor of the chicken.
- Heat the pot on medium heat without covering it.
- When it reaches a full boil, remove the foam with a mesh strainer.
- Simmer for 7 to 8 minutes on low heat, then remove the chicken thigh and kombu seaweed.
- With the skin facing up, place the thigh into a bowl, cover it with the kombu, and wrap the bowl with plastic wrap to prevent the chicken from drying out.
- Simmer the broth for 10 more minutes. The foam keeps appearing, so remove it frequently each time.
- Now, the delicious broth is ready.
- Remove the chicken wings and aromatic vegetables, and place them onto a strainer over a bowl.
- Return the strained broth in the bowl to the pot. We will season the broth with Nuoc Mam, a Vietnamese fish sauce later.
- These chicken and vegetables can be enjoyed as ingredients for another type of soup or Nabemono, a Japanese hotpot.
- When the chicken thigh has cooled, slice it into bite-size strips.
- Let's season the broth and cook the rice noodles. Heat the broth and season it with the nuoc mam, a Vietnamese fermented fish sauce, and salt. You can also substitute nam pla, a Thai fish sauce and adjust the amount of salt to taste.
- The resulting amount of the soup will slightly vary depending on the strength of heat while cooking.
- These are rice noodles for one person.
- Place the noodles into boiling water. And lightly loosen up the noodles.
- Cook for about 5 minutes. If you want to shorten the boiling time, soak the noodles in lukewarm water for a while before cooking them.
- Strain the noodles and hit the strainer against a kitchen towel several times to remove the excess water thoroughly.
- Place the noodles into a bowl. Arrange the noodles with chopsticks.
- Add the red onion, which is less pungent and beautiful in color. Top with the fresh wakame seaweed with the salt removed.
- Add the lightly cooked moyashi bean sprouts, and tender leaf tips of the coriander.
- Arrange the sliced chicken thigh on top.
- Pour over the piping hot soup. This exquisite chicken soup with the kombu's umami flavor makes you want to enjoy it until the last drop.
- Top with the chopped spring onion leaves. Garnish with the lemon or lime wedge and sprinkle with black pepper.
- Drizzle on the hot chili sauce if you like it spicy.
Recipe Notes
We received requests for Vietnamese food from our fans in Vietnam so we introduced how to make pho easily at home using Japanese ingredients like kombu and wakame seaweed.
The salted fresh wakame is delicious and we use it on a regular basis. To check how to remove the salt from the fresh wakame, please check out our Seaweed Salad recipe.
You should also adding more bone parts of the chicken, not just using chicken wings. In Vietnam we poach the whole chicken, tear of the meat, just let the bone simmer with aromatics. It’s almost like chicken stock but with Vietnamese spices and love. We also eat some poached eggs, chicken fat, herbs and some crunchy twists (quẩy) with it. The Japanese add-ons in the video is creative and good! 😊
Hi @Nguyễn Thanh Bình
Thank you for explaining how the authentic Pho is made in Vietnam.🐔🍜 It sounds so delicious!😍 Chef has visited Vietnam a long time ago.🇻🇳👩🍳 If we have a chance to visit there again, we would like to enjoy Pho as much we want!😋
Parboiling the chicken wings removes any unwanted flavor and odor.🐔 This will help to make a delicious broth especially when you are using meat with bones.😊