Easy Homemade Pho Recipe
Build Your Bowl
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
25 mins
 
These are just suggestions! Feel free to add extra veggies, herbs, spices, tofu, whatever floats your boat!
Course: Soup
Servings: 1 person
Author: Caitlin Iles
Ingredients
  • 1 small onion
  • 1 tsp. olive or coconut oil
  • 1 bulb garlic
  • 1 serving rice or black bean vermicelli noodles
  • Pinch sea salt
  • Palm sized piece of frozen sirloin steak 1 serving of braised chicken from above, or your favourite sausage meat, rolled into small balls.
  • 3 green onions
  • Handful of cilantro
  • Handful of mint
  • 2 lime slices
  • Hot sauce or chili oil
Instructions
  1. Heat a small frying pan over medium.
  2. Cut the stalk end off your onion, then cut it in half and peel the skin off, leaving the root end of the onion attached.
  3. Slice into half moon shapes and add to frying pan with oil, stirring every couple of minutes.
  4. Peel and roughly chop garlic. Set aside until onions start to brown.
  5. Add garlic to onions, stirring to combine.
  6. Cook another 2-3 minutes until garlic and onions are caramelized then turn the heat off, and cover with a pot lid. Set aside.
  7. Fill a small saucepan with water and a couple pinches of sea salt. Cover the pot and bring to a boil.
  8. Once boiling, add noodles and cook 2-3 minutes.
  9. Strain noodles and add to a large soup bowl.
  10. While noodles are cooking, shave your beef with a mandolin into thin strips and set aside. Or you can pull apart the braised chicken from above or roll your favourite sausage meat into small balls.*

  11. Chop up green onions, cilantro, and mint. Add to the soup bowl.

  12. Add onions to the soup bowl.

  13. Pour as much pho broth as you want into the bowl, then squeeze one or two slices of lime juice in, season with hot sauce, and enjoy!

Recipe Notes

If using sausage balls you will want to cook them for a few minutes in the broth prior to serving.