Pho

Hi there,

Today it was my turn to make lunch for the farm family and I Idecided to make one of my absolute favorite dishes discovered while travelling through South East Asia. Especially Vietnam, this national dish called Pho, pronounce as Va. It's basically a noodle soup, with a protein added,like chicken, beef our tofu. And it  is absolutely amazing because it's so simple yet so full of flavor. There are a lot of recipes for this dish and everybody in Vietnam makes the broth different, with a secret ingredient only the family knows and they will never tell. So I made my own version.
what do you need? For 4 persons
3 chicken breast
1,5 dl of soy sauce
1 dl of oyster sauce
1 dl of cooking sake
Juice of half a lemon
3 spring onions
2 garlic toes
3 table spoons of honey
500 grams of rice noodles
1 big paksoi
500 grams of silverbeet
2 chili peppers
1 bunch of coriander
Vegetable oil.

Get a big pan on the stove, chop the garlic and the spring onions very small. Put some vegetable oil in the pan not to much only a little layer to cover the bottom of the pan. Add the garlic and onions. Stir a couple of times, till everything starts to sweat. Now we add add all the liquids, so the sake, soy and oyster sauce. Get the chicken breast and put these in the pan. Cover the chicken with the sauce. Let this rest for a couple of minutes. So that the chicken can brown and soak up the flavors in the pan. Now add the lemon juice and the table spoons of honey. Give it a stir. Add 1,5 liter of boiling water to the pan. Let the chicken poach. This takes about 20 minutes so time to cut all the veggies. Clean the paksoi and silverbeet. Cut the ends of the silverBeet and chop everything in pieces. Do the same with the Paksoi. And the coriander, chili, cut the lemon in slices. Put these three items on a plate. Check the chicken, if the flesh is not white, let it poach some more. Taste the broth, and add what you think is necessary I  added a little bit of pepper. There is some foam on the soup that's ok we will drain it when the chicken is ready. So check that. After 20 minutes the chicken should be ready and perfectly moist. Get the chicken out of the pan and slice in generous pieces. Cover the chicken so it doesn't get dry. Time to drain the soup. If all goes well all the foam and garlic and oniond will stay in the sieve. And you have a clear broth. Add the vegetables and rice noodles. The rice noodles will take around 5  minutes to get soft. If they are soft, get some bowls and put the pho in. Take the plate with the coriander, lemon and chili to the table, do the same with the chicken. This way everybody can add whatever they like. And you have you're delicious home made pho. Everyone will love.

Enjoy!

Love,
the kitchenprincess