Pho "fuh"

It smells so good already after 2 hours of simmering ! I am making Pho tonight. Usually i will post up the recipe only after i had it just to make sure every recipe that i post up is a keeper. However, this recipe is for sureeee a keeper. I adapted this recipe from steamy kitchen. Using pork instead of beef, cause i prefer pork over beef. I got to tell you , this is a GREAT recipe from steamy kitchen !

The original recipe from steamy kitchen
http://steamykitchen.com/271-vietnamese-beef-noodle-soup-pho.html



Ingredients
To serve 4

THE BROTH
1 onions, halved
ginger powder - 2 tsp ( i run out of ginger in my pantry , but is better to use whole ginger if available)
3 lbs of pork bones
3 quarts of water
1 cinnamon stick, 1/2 tbl coriander powder 1/2 tbl fennel seeds, 3 star anise, 1 cardamom pod, 3 whole cloves - in mesh bag]
3/4 tbl salt
1/8 cup fish sauce
1 inch chunk of yellow rock sugar (about 1 oz) – or 1oz of regular sugar



1 lbs rice noodles (dried or fresh)
Garnish
mint, cilantro, basil
2-3 chili peppers, sliced
1 big handfuls of bean sprouts
Hoisin sauce
siracha

Char onions on baking sheet. Broil on high . It takes about 5 minutes to get it charred on the outside. Turn over. Continue broil for 5 minutes. Remove from oven and peel off the charred section.

Par boiled the bones by boiling vigorously for 10 minutes. Drain and rinse the bones. Refill pot with bones and 3 qts of cool water. Bring to boil over high heat and lower to simmer.

Add ginger, onion, spice packet, beef, sugar, fish sauce, salt and simmer uncovered for 3 hours . Taste and seasoned if needed

Then prepare the noodle by following the instructions on the packet.
Fill each bowl with rice noodles. Serve immediately. Garnish with bean sprouts , chili pepper, basil, mint and cilantro

* The noodle is just too hard to resist. As soon as it on the table , we gobbled up everything and forgot to take a picture. Will definitely cook again and next time, with a picture of the noodle !