Vietnamese
Chicken Pho
Chicken Pho is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 lb bone-in chicken pieces
- 8 oz flat rice noodles
- 1 onion
- 3 inch piece ginger
- 3 star anise
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 3 whole cloves
- 1 tbsp coriander seeds
- 3 tbsp fish sauce
- 8 cups water
- 2 cups bean sprouts
- 1 cup Thai basil
- 2 limes
- 2 jalapenos
- 1/2 cup cilantro
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Char the onion and ginger under the broiler or in a dry pan until blackened in spots, about 5 minutes.
- Toast the star anise, cinnamon, cloves, and coriander in a dry pot until fragrant, 1 minute.
- Add the chicken, charred onion and ginger, fish sauce, salt, and water, and simmer gently for 45 minutes.
- Remove the chicken, shred the meat, and strain the broth.
- Soak the rice noodles in hot water until tender, then divide among bowls with the shredded chicken.
- Ladle the hot broth over the top and serve with bean sprouts, Thai basil, lime, jalapeno, and cilantro.
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 | Lemongrass Tofu Stir-Fry |
| 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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
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.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, noodle, and ginger.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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