Hey FoodTubers! Donal here, last year I was in Vietnam and I am absolutely obsessed with all the brilliant
street food on offer there so I'm gonna make up my favorite one a 'Pho Ga' which is
basically a Vietnamese poached chicken soup
to kick-start this flavour sensation in this little bowl I have very aromatic corriander seeds, some star anise,
and a little bit of clove- so get it in there into a dry frying pan and turn
on the heat
we've got some ginger and we got some onion but there's an interesting
technique with this, keep the skin on your ginger but just split it down in half
like that and with your onion you're gonna do exactly the same you can take the skin
off this, while our seeds are toasting up get the heat on your other hob and
using and using our metal tongs we're going to grab that slice of ginger and put it
straight over that wonderful flame, doing this over the open flame is going to
result in the most wonderful smoky smell and flavor that's gonna infuse this
brilliant chicken noodle soup
it's exactly the same method with the onion and now I've got my onions, my ginger
I can turn off my heat here, I've got all these brilliant little spices which are
bursting with flavor so get all that wonderful flavor straight into a big big
pot and all those great ingredients go straight in here and then in on top of that
you want to grab a whole chicken, skin-on get it straight into the pot
and just plonk it in there, and then fill it up with some cold water it's now gonna
cook with a lid for about 50 minutes after it's cooked and the chicken is nicely
cooked through
leave it to cool in the liquid and once you've done that you should get left
with a really rich broth and beautifully cooked chicken and that's exactly
what I have, so I have a chicken which is cooked up I've taken it out of it's liquid
and I have the most beautiful rich broth, in here I've taken the chicken out and I've
continued to reduce down that liquid and by reducing it down you get left with a really intense flavor in the soup
get that stock right on a high heat and you want it to come to a rolling boil while you prepare the rest
of your ingredients, and now that you have cooked up this brilliant chicken, it's time to shred it up
there is so much meat off this chicken and that's why I love this, it uses the whole bird you get
the wings, you get the legs, you get all the breast meat so the first thing to do
is take off the skin, once you have the skin off it's time to shred up the meat
chicken is all sorted now we've got our pot boiling so it's time to cook off our
rice noodles what you want to look for is these brilliant rice noodles that
cook in an instant
so worth while getting them if you go to any Asian store you would find these
they're very very accessible and in most supermarkets have them there as well
take off a handful like this and we're gonna make one portion of soup so get that straight in that boiling
liquid with a large handful of chicken pieces and just one or two little chillies for a bit of heat
now you might have noticed that I haven't added any seasoning here so to season it up I'm
just gonna add a drop of fish sauce in here, that rice noodle is gonna cook out just until
it's nice and tender and then it's ready to serve
turn off the heat and just swirl all those noodles together with the tongs
and then just push them into a bowl, look at that steamy broth get it straight into the bowl and then
using a little slotted spoon like this just grab up any of those wonderful chicken pieces
that are in there as well and push them over the top, to finish it off you have got to get lots
of that wonderful broth, the magic of this soup is the broth so make sure you're generous with it
over the top and now you have the bones of a brilliant little pho but to finish it off
get some mint leaves in there, get a little bit of coriander, get some thai basil if you have it
and then just push them in on the side like this top up with some spring onion just on
the side like that, for a tiny touch of heat and some wonderful colour in there get some chillies in there and
now, the best part, it's time to taste it so using chopsticks because this is the way they
eat it in Vietnam give it a quick slurp and give it a nice little taste of that beautiful poached chicken if this is not
the best chicken noodle soup in the world I don't know what it is I want you
to try this, it is so good the recipe is in the box below please try it, leave me a
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