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Skinnymixers Pho

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This Vietnamese Pho Thermomix recipe has been popular in the Skinnymixers Facebook Group for a number of years and had to be included in the new cookbook SkinnyAsia.

If you haven’t had a Vietnamese Pho before it is a fragrant noodle soup bursting with fresh flavours and aromatics. Don’t skip the fresh herbs, they are the best part! 

It is next to impossible to replicate an authentic broth in thermo cookers – these Vietnamese Pho recipes have been handed down for generations, and are often cooked for days.

I believe I have achieved something ‘similar’, by roasting the bones first to remove their impurities. This ensures a beautiful clarity on the broth that usually demands simmering and skimming – ain’t nobody got time for that.

What you will need:

 

Skinnymixers Pho

skinnymixer's Vietnamese Pho

5 from 1 vote
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Course: Soup
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours 15 minutes
Servings: 4
Calories: 313kcal

Ingredients

  • 500 g beef shin - cut into large chunks (or other meaty beef bones) See below for quick pho
  • 1 large brown onion - peeled, halved
  • 50 g fresh ginger - washed, unpeeled
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 tsp black peppercorns
  • 1 tsp coriander seeds
  • 3 star anise
  • 1 clove
  • 40 g soy sauce - or tamari
  • 10 g fish sauce - optional
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 10 g coconut sugar - or brown sugar
  • 1500 g water
  • 2 cloves garlic - peeled

Quick Pho

  • Replace beef bones with 500 ml or 16.9 fl oz ready made Beef Consommé - found with the ready-made stock at the supermarket. Omit the additional salt. See Instructions below.

To Serve

  • 500 g ready made thin rice noodles or shredded wombok for grain free alternative
  • 300 g sirloin beef steak - very thinly sliced

Optional Garnishes

  • A handful of mint leaves - thai basil and fresh coriander
  • 200 g bean sprouts
  • 1 shallot - small red/brown one, thinly sliced
  • Fresh red birds eye chilli
  • Chilli sauce
  • Hoisin sauce
  • Fresh lime - cut into wedges

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 220°C or 430°F and place beef onto a roasting tray. When the oven is ready, roast beef for 30 mins.
  • Add onion and ginger to the roasting tray with the beef, roast for a further 30 mins.
  • Add dried spices to roasting tray with beef, onion and ginger for a further 5 mins. When this is finished, your beef should be dark and your onion charred.
  • Put soy sauce, fish sauce, salt and sugar into mixer bowl. Insert your simmering basket into your mixer bowl, put your roasted spices into the simmering basket first, followed by the roasted beef then onion, ginger and garlic cloves.
  • Put 1500 g or 53 oz water into mixer bowl and cook for 60 min/100°C or 212°F/speed 3/MC on. With 10 mins remaining, prepare your noodles, sliced steak and garnishes to serve.
  • When broth has finished cooking, carefully remove simmering basket and discard the cooked beef etc. Pour hot broth immediately over the prepared bowls to cook steak.

Quick Pho Instructions

  • Preheat oven and roast onion, ginger and spices as above.
  • Put the consommé, 1000 g or 35.3 oz water, soy sauce, fish sauce and sugar into mixer bowl.
  • Insert your simmering basket into your mixer bowl, put your roasted spices into the simmering basket first, followed by the onion, ginger and garlic cloves. Cook for 30 min/100°C or 212°F/speed 3/MC on. When broth has finished cooking, carefully remove simmering basket and discard the onions etc. Pour hot broth immediately over the prepared bowls to cook steak.

Notes

Quick pho isnt as good as the authentic broth, but its still very yum.
For an even more authentic broth, cook it for an additional 1-2 hours, topping up water as necessary.
You can stretch this out to serve 6 by increasing the quantities of your garnishes.
You may need to adjust your oven temp, or cooking time - based on how hot/cold your oven is. Just use your common sense judgement with this one. Its not a big deal if your beef gets quite blackened, but you dont want to burnt to a crisp.
Adjust recipe to suit your specific tastes. I have intentionally kept this light, if you prefer a sweeter, more savoury or stronger aniseed tasting pho - adapt, adapt adapt! 😉
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Nutrition

Serving: 695g | Calories: 313kcal | Carbohydrates: 32.6g | Protein: 31.8g | Fat: 4.6g | Saturated Fat: 1.5g | Sodium: 1680mg | Sugar: 4.4g

 

  1. My favourite food is pho, but I dont have it all that often because I live remote. I think I have tried about 5 different recipes and was ready to give up until today. This is amazing! Im literally making a second batch right now.

  2. Loved this, even my Vietnamese partner (who told me not to bother trying to make it!) said this was really good! And the bonus, it was so easy, will be making this one often.

  3. Hi Nik,
    I made this soup today and I just wanted to let you know it was absolutely delicious! I am Vietnamese and have never been able to perfect the pho beef broth. This is definitely on my favourites list and will be my “go to” pho recipe! It was so easy to make. The only thing I was disappointed in was there was not enough for leftovers!

  4. Thanks Nik for all your awesome recipes
    I especially liked this one, because it has changed the way I make my bone broth as well. I now roast my bones with onion, ginger, corriander seeds as per this recipe. Gives the broth a much richer gelatinous flavour.

    I’m wondering if one day you can maybe recreate a yum Cha cuisine for us (pretty please) 🙂 I’m going to attempt to use part of this recipe tonight

  5. I would never have tried Pho before, as I have a slight phobia of raw meat in food. I made this and to my surprise, I absolutely loved it. The lime was a lovely touch. Very nice and I’ll probably make it again soon

  6. Pho for dinner tonight again ☺️ Love how as long as I keep some bones in the freezer I have all the ingredients as staples in my fridge/pantry and can change it up to make it a bit different every time. Thanks Nik one of our easy favourites X

  7. Last time I made this I doubled the bones cooking in the over. Froze them and now I have a very quick absolutely delicious meal for later. This is one of my favourite recipes. Thank you again.

  8. Delicious! I made the slow-pho version and hubby and I both enjoyed it immensely, it transported us back to the streets of Hanoi where we slurped bowls full of the stuff! Next time I’ll cook it even longer to get the real authentic broth. Thanks for another amazing recipe Nik, you’re helping me fall in love with my thermie all over again! xx

  9. Just finished making this from scratch. Nice to find something so yum to make in my thermi. Haven’t had a lot of success otherwise. Love the butter chicken too. Thanks Nic

  10. This is the fourth recipe I have tried in just over a week since stumbling across Skinnymixers. I did the longer recipe and must say it was really delicious. Although it was a bit more time consuming than the quick pho it really had a beautiful depth of flavour and most of the time was spent either waiting for the oven or waiting for the Thermomix to finish cooking – really very little prep time at all. Gorgeous recipe that you must try.

  11. Made the quick version and I was amazed at the flavour!!!!
    Getting bones to make again his weekend,
    Thank you for the lovely recipe
    X

  12. We loved this dish! My tm31 only let me add 1000g of water and it was chock full so made enough for four good serves. I made some prawn wontons in the airfryer to go with it! I love how simple and delicious your recipes are! Thanks Nikalene.

  13. Hubby was wowed by the amazing smells when he opened the door! Such an easy recipe and I will be making this one again.

  14. OMG!

    I made this last night for my partner who was suffering from Man-Flu… Pho is one of his all time favourites and he was absolutely blown away by this recipe.

    We had all the added extras including hoisin and loads of extra chilli and herbs.

    Man Flu has since passed and he has put in an order for your Vindaloo tonight!

    Thanks for another amazing recipe Nik!! I was shocked by how easy it actually was to make, and wow it is packed with flavour!

  15. I made the quick pho and it was delish -used wombok instead of noodles I am looking forward to trying it with the beef n bones 😃

  16. Absolutely delicious. Authentic favours. Roasted the bones, gave the broth the flavour. Always believe the stock is the heart of these dishes. Thank you.

  17. Funnily enough, I had never tasted pho when I voted for it to be your next creation. I just liked the look of it 🙂
    I made it today for lunch and wow! The flavours are amazing! Definitely worth the cooking time,
    Thanks again Nikalene for a wonderful recipe

  18. Nik you asked us, we voted & you delivered yet again!
    I absolutely loved this Pho I made the long version and cooked for about 90min was YUM! I made with Chinese cabbage for low card but can’t wait to try with noodles too.
    I’ll also try the quick version soon too for work nights. Thanks for another great recipie Nik 😀

  19. Yet another winning recipe from Nikalene!! Thank you so much. I have been searching for a long time for a Pho recipe that tastes as good as it does from the restaurants. Well this is it. You have done it. I made it this morning thinks no I would let it brew for a while. Well that didn’t happen because my kids have been begging me for some as soon as the first hour went past. I will have to go back to the shops and buy more meat to make some for hubby before he comes home. 😊😊 Thank you so much!!!

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