Description
Authentic Pho Ga is a traditional Vietnamese chicken noodle soup infused with aromatic spices and served with fresh herbs and condiments. This recipe provides both stovetop and pressure cooker methods for preparing a flavorful and comforting bowl of Pho Ga at home.
Ingredients
Scale
For the broth:
- 1 whole chicken (about 3–3.5 lbs)
- 3 thumb-sized pieces of ginger, peeled and sliced in half vertically
- 5 large shallots, peeled
- 1 small piece of cassia bark, or 1 cinnamon stick
- 2–3 star anises
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
- 1 black cardamom pods, cracked open
- 2 teaspoons salt (plus more to parboil the chicken)
- 2–3 tablespoons fish sauce
- 9 cups water
For serving:
- pho rice noodles
- scallions
- half an onion, sliced very thinly
- freshly cracked black pepper
- birds-eye chili pepper, sliced
- lime wedges
Instructions
- Prepping steps: Add boiling water to a pot large enough to fit the chicken. Add a pinch of salt and chicken to the pot. Let it boil for a minute, then remove the chicken and discard the liquid.
- Dry roast ginger and shallots until fragrant. Set aside. Toast spices, then put in a spice pouch.
- Stovetop Method: Simmer chicken, ginger, shallots, spice pouch, salt, and water. Remove chicken when cooked. Continue simmering broth.
- Taste broth and add fish sauce to flavor. Serve with noodles, chicken, scallions, onions, pepper, and broth.
- Pressure Cooker Method: Pressure cook chicken with ginger, shallots, salt, and water. Release pressure, remove chicken, separate meat, return bones to cooker. Add remaining ginger, shallots, and spice pouch. Pressure cook, then flavor and serve as with stovetop method.
Notes
- For cloves instead of coriander seeds, see recipe Notes section.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Stovetop, Pressure Cooker
- Cuisine: Vietnamese
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bowl
- Calories: Approx. 350 kcal
- Sugar: 2g
- Sodium: 1100mg
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 45g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 25g
- Cholesterol: 80mg
Keywords: Pho Ga, Vietnamese chicken noodle soup, homemade pho, comfort food
