Persuasive Essay About Beef Pho Noodle

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A delicious bowl of beef pho noodle

For most students,life like in college is something new and unexcperienced before.Most people say that when you start college,you get ready to start your own independent life.Student usually don’t know how to do their laundry or most important,cooking.
I was like that too when I first came here,and still am.I used to call my mother everytime I tried to cook something delicious,but it always turned out bad.
My Vietnamese friend,Huyen,once showed me an easy recipe of a delicious soup they cook in Vietnam.It’s called the “Beef Pho Noodle Soup (Pho Bo)”and here is how she taught me to prepare it:
First you need these ingredients to make 8 bowls of soup:
2 medium yellow onions
4-inch piece ginger
5-6 pounds
Place onions and ginger on the pan and let them fry. After about 15 minutes, they will soften and become sweetly fragrant.Use tongs to always rotate them. You have to slightly cook them.After that you let them cool.
Parboil bones. Place bones in stockpot,add water and boil them for 2-3 minutes. Dump water into sink and rinse bones with warm water and then return bones to pot.
Simmer broth. First you 6 quarts of water in the pot, then lower flame to gently simmer. Add broth ingredients and cook for 1 1/2 hours. When it is cooked ,remove it and place in bowl of cold water for 10 minutes; this prevents the meat from drying up and turning dark as it cools. Drain the meat; cool, then refrigerate. Strain the pho broth through fine strainer. If desired, remove any bits of gelatinous tendon from bones to add to your pho bowl. Store tendon with cooked beef. Use ladle to skim as much fat from top of the pho broth as you like. (Cool it and refrigerate it overnight to make this task easier; reheat before continuing.) Taste and adjust flavor with additional salt, fish sauce and yellow rock sugar. The pho broth should taste slightly too strong because the noodles and other ingredients are not
Bring broth to boil. Check seasoning. Ladle broth into each bowl, distributing hot liquid evenly so as to cook raw beef and warm other ingredients. Serve your pho with with the garnish plate.
Cautions: Yellow rock sugar (a.k.a. lump sugar) is sold in one-pound boxes at Chinese and Southeast Asian markets. Break up large chunks with hammer.
Variations: If you want to replicate the splendorous options available at pho shops, head to the butcher counter at a Vietnamese or Chinese market. There you'll find white cords of gan(beef tendon) and thin pieces of nam (outside flank, not flank steak). While tendon requires no preparation prior to cooking, nam should be rolled and tied with string for easy handling. Simmer it and the beef tendon in the cooking broth for two hours, or until chewy-tender.
Airy book tripe (sach) is already cooked when you buy it. Before using, wash and gently squeeze it dry. Slice it thinly to make fringe-like pieces to be added to the bowl during assembly. For beef meatballs (bo vien), purchase them in Asian markets in the refrigerator case; they are already precooked. Slice each one in half and drop into broth to heat through. When you're ready to serve, ladle them out with the broth to top each

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