A quick, 15 min (cheater’s) Beef Pho. It’s common breakfast in Vietnam – and great for quick brunches on weekends, when you’re just that little bit hungover from the night before. It’s so quick and simple to prepare:
Ingredients (serves 2)
* 3-4 cups beef consomme or beef stock
* 1 cinnamon stick
* 1 star anise
*Â squeeze lime juice
* 2 tbs fish sauce
* 375g pkt rice noodles
* 350g sukiyaki beef (paper thin)
* 2-4 small fresh red chillies (or to taste), thinly sliced
* 1 cup Thai basil leaves
1. Combine beef consomme or stock, cinnamon stick and star anise in a medium saucepan over high heat. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 5 minutes or until aromatic. Stir in lime juice and fish sauce.
2. While the stock is cooking, soak rice noodles in boiling water, cover and leave for 5 minutes.
3. Divide noodles among serving bowls. You can dip the sukiyaki beef in the remaining hot water to cook it for 15 seconds or so, and place on top of the noodles.
4. Pour over boiling hot stock so the beef remaings cooking, chilli, basil and green onion (if you wish).
I’m still waiting for some photos to come through, so I will update on the food I had in China at a later date!
~oh.. i’ll be in vietnam in a few weeks!
O yum… looks good =D
OMG~! GIMMIE!
YUM!!!
its easy but who the hell has fresh basil and sukiyaki beef on hand. can you give me some recipes for things common household ingredients?
that looks soooo good!!! my mouth is definately watering. =(
@XDeborahZeeX - You should always have frozen sukiyaki beef on hand! It cooks so quickly, you can put it on rice, or udon, or anything!
I will get back to you on recipes on common household ingredients like…. canned tuna?
yea. and avocado, cherry tomatos, mushrooms.. u know…
good job sweety.. im so proud of u
i would definitely add onions & bean sprouts to it. doesn’t taste as good in my mind without them.
hehe, you know, i always wondered what they use to make “beef stock”
i made it!
no sukiyaki beef so i sliced prime ribeye as thinly as i could.. and seared it a bit before i put it on top of the noodles. DELISH!
pho breakfast lunch dinner!!
so that’s how you make it.
wow i never thought of cinnamon on meat – thats crazy.. bet it tastes great..