Pho is an amazingly complex, flavorful and comforting Vietnamese soup. And while the popularity of this soup has brought with it countless tutorials on how to make it, there are times where you crave it now and don’t have 18+ hours to slow simmer a bone broth. This recipe is rich, with flavors that mimic the real thing, but takes only 30 minutes to make.
The Faux Pho Video
Faux Pho
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A quick version of the Vietnamese classic, this soup is rich and flavorful, but only takes about 30 minutes to make.
Ingredients:
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 yellow onion sliced
- 5-6 cherry tomatoes
- 0-2 Thai chilis sliced
- 1 tbsp garlic minced
- 1 1/2 tsp ginger grated
- 2 servings pad Thai rice noodles
- 2 cups beef bone broth
- 2 cups water
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp white miso paste
- 6 chicken wings uncooked
- 2 cremini mushrooms sliced
- 1/2 cup basil leaves fresh
- 2 cups bean sprouts
- 2 green onions sliced
- 1/4 cup hoisin sauce
- 1 lime cut in half
Directions:
- Heat a medium pan on medium heat. Add olive oil, cherry tomatoes and sliced yellow onion and sweat for 2-3 minutes.
- Add sliced Thai chilis (if desired), garlic and ginger into the pan. Stir and let sauté with other vegetables.
- Cover rice noodles with hot water in a bowl and set aside.
- Once the tomatoes have broken down, add the bone broth, water, fish sauce, soy sauce, and miso paste. Bring to a boil and add the chicken wings. Bring back to a boil, cover and reduce the temperature to simmer for 15-20 minutes until the wings are cooked through.
- While the broth simmers, prepare the bowls. In each large soup bowl (two total), place one mushroom worth of sliced mushrooms, 1/4 cup of fresh basil, and 1 cup of bean sprouts.
- Optional: put a pan on medium heat. Once the wings are cooked through, sear them on all sides with a little olive oil.
- Add another cup of water to the broth, add the rice noodles and bring to a boil. Stir in the hoisin sauce and turn off the heat.
- Add 3 chicken wings to each bowl, then ladle half of the broth and noodles into each bowl. Garnish with sliced green onion and a squeeze of lime. Serve immediately.
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This looks so good! Would you say it has a taste similar to hot & sour soup or miso soup? Or flavor profile all on its own? Thanks!
I guess the hope would be that it tastes similar to pho, haha.
Hi Chris! I’ve been craving this pho every since I saw your post, but my local midwestern suburb grocery store has failed me on some key ingredients (thai chilis, bean sprouts and miso paste). Do you have any advice on where to go to find these items? Do you typically shop at specialty stores? Thanks!
We live in a small Idaho town, so a lot of my more exotic ingredients I order from Amazon. They won’t have bean sprouts, but they do have miso and fresh Thai chilis.
oh, this looks so good! I am having difficulty finding the video. I really want to see! I can’t find it on instagram either. I don’t know where the CLJ highlights are. Can you help me?
thanks!!
Video can be found here!
Looks so good! Do you have a recipe for bone broth you want to share or do you buy it? Thanks!
I by it more than I make it. Kettle & Fire makes a good one for this kind of soup. But I make it every so often and keep it in the freezer. This is a pretty standard recipe you can go with.