Phil Vickery's pho noodle soup
It’s soup season! After baking his delicious white bread earlier in the show, Phil’s back with the perfect soup to go alongside - his warming pho noodle soup.
Phil's pho
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients
1 litre good quality, strong chicken or pork stock - if using stock cubes I use pork or chicken and they are roughly 10g each, for 1 litre I would add 3 or 4
10 spring onions, sliced on the diagonal
1 heaped tsp fresh red chilli, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tbsp fish sauce
1-2 tbsp palm sugar or caster sugar
Salt
Pepper
1 small pork fillet (about 350g) free of silver skin and any fat
200g cooked rice vermicelli or noodles
200g beansprouts
1 small bunch Vietnamese or conventional coriander
1 small bunch Thai Basil
10 fresh mint leaves
Juice 2 large limes
Sliced fresh red chilli
To serve, optional
Soy sauce
Extra lime
Extra herbs as above
Method
1. Place the stock (or water and cubes) into a large saucepan and heat until just simmering
2. Next add the onions, chilli, garlic, fish sauce and sugar and a little salt and pepper
3. Meanwhile, cut the pork into very thin slices across the fillet then into 4 and add to the stock. The pork will cook almost straight away, and stir well.
4. Add the noodles and beansprouts and bring back to the simmer and turn off the heat
5. Roughly chop the herbs and add to the pho along with the juice from the lime and serve straight away
6. You can serve a little soy sauce with the pho if you want along with extra lime, herbs and even more chilli