How to Make Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup

What the Pho?! I've been working hard perfecting the techniques and recipe for Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup, or Pho, just for you. It's taken years of kitchen experiments, eating out and scouring for good recipes…

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This is a simplified version of a Vietnamese beef noodle soup. Hot broth is poured over paper-thin slices of top round, cooking the meat, and the soup is then garnished with basil, cilantro, bean sprouts, and wedges of lime.

Vietnamese beef noodle pho is an easy soup to fall in love with. Those chewy noodles. That savory broth. The tender slices of beef. All those crunchy, spicy, herby garnishes that we get to toss on top. On a cold evening, after a rough day at work, when we're sick, on a lazy weekend afternoon — a bowl of piping hot pho is pretty much always a good idea. Beef pho (pronounced "fuh"!) feels like a restaurant staple, but it's not actually all that hard to make a quick version at home. This recipe for Quick Vietnamese Beef Pho was one of our favorites from The Kitchn Cookbook, so much so that we wanted to walk you through how to make it, step-by-step.

Who doesn't love noodles soup? In the Vietnamese repertoire, beef pho noodle soup is a classic. In fact, it's practically the national dish of Vietnam. Below is my family's recipe for the quintessential Vietnamese food -- pho noodle soup. You may have had bowls of pho in Vietnamese noodle shops, in Vietnam and abroad. but have you made some yourself? Before leaping into this beef pho noodle soup recipe, check out Pho Secrets and Techniques post for a primer on bones, charring the onion, saving some fat, etc. Also, read about the history and evolution of pho in Vietnam and America. Making pho noodle soup takes time but most of it is passive cooking. And remember, you can freeze pho broth for future bowls of...
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