How To Make Pho Ga: Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup
Pho ga is a Vietnamese chicken noodle soup that’s filled with a variety of fresh flavors and textures, from the veggies, rice noodles, herbs, and limes.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2tbspvegetable oil
- 2onions
- 2carrots
- 2celery stalks
- 1wholechicken
- 3tbspfish sauce
- ¼cupcoarse sugar
- kosher salt
- pepper
- noodles,thin rice
- cilantro
- basil
- lime wedges
Instructions
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In a pot sauté onions, carrots, and celery in oil for a few minutes.
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Add chicken and, over a low flame, simmer for 30 minutes until chicken is cooked.
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Remove the chicken from the broth. Skim broth for clarity.
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Strain broth and then return to burner. Allow chicken to cool, and remove meat from the chicken.
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Add fish sauce and coarse sugar to the broth. Then add salt and pepper according to taste.
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For fresh rice noodles, soak in lukewarm water until soft. Prepare a pot of water to boil noodles.
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Boil rice noodles by portion. Once water is boiled, drop noodles in for approximately 25 seconds, then directly into a bowl.
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Add the chicken to the bowl of cooked rice noodles. Add broth, garnish with chopped cilantro and a few sprigs of fresh basil, and add a dash of pepper to finish.
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Serve with a slice of lime and fish sauce.
Nutrition
- Calories: 1076.02kcal
- Fat: 69.91g
- Saturated Fat: 17.94g
- Trans Fat: 0.46g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 31.74g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 14.62g
- Carbohydrates: 32.05g
- Fiber: 3.84g
- Sugar: 23.31g
- Protein: 77.16g
- Cholesterol: 300.00mg
- Sodium: 1749.38mg
- Calcium: 109.98mg
- Potassium: 1193.31mg
- Iron: 4.43mg
- Vitamin A: 531.13µg
- Vitamin C: 19.95mg
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