Pho Ga (Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup) Easy Recipe

ABBEY: Wilma loves noodles and this Pho Ga is long overdue. Here it is:

Ingredients:

Whole medium chicken / thigh part, wings, breast

3 pcs star anise

7 pcs cloves

3 tbsp coriander seeds

Ginger

Medium Onion

Fish sauce

Pho noodles / rice noodles (pre cooked)

Mint

Basil

Bird eye chili

Lime

Chicken broth

Roast the star anise, cloves, and coriander seeds for a couple of minutes until fragrant and put in a pot.

Slice the ginger crosswise as well as the onion and grill in open flame and place in the pot.

Clean the chicken/chicken parts and put in the pot. Fill it with water until all is submerged.

Bring it to a boil and lower the heat. Let the flavour come out of the chicken for 1 hour. Make sure to add water as necessary.

Let it cool and remove the chicken then shred the meat.

Once the chicken is removed, bring the stock to a boil again. Put fish sauce as to your preference.

You can also put chili or put it later in the bowl.

Have a serving of noodles in the broth and let simmer for a couple of minutes. Strain it and place in a bowl.

Scoop broth into the bowl. Put shredded chicken.

Garnish with mint and basil along with chili, black pepper or more fish sauce. Squeeze a slice of lime.

Welcome to Vietnam! Enjoy.

Pho Ga (Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup)  Easy 

VERDICT
WILL: This is the Vietnamese' soup that I kept on pushing Abbey to try to cook for a year. And after those begging (haha) he finally done it! 

How was Pho Ga? Gosh! It tasted like that we bought it at one of Vietnamese stall. The minty and herbally soup fantastically complemented the chicken stock. 

My conclusion is that we can open up a food store. Haha! Go Abbey!