Vietnamese Recipes

Ingredients

• 1 kg chicken bone or pork bone to cook the soup or you can use the chicken soup can.
• 0.5 kg chicken breast
• 0.5 kg pork meat
• 1 kg prawn
• Pho noodle ( phở) ( I used Pho as a substitute coz I couldn’t find Mi Quang )
• 100 gr roast peanut
• Vegetable, bean sprout and Rau muống.
• Salt, sugar, fish sauce (nuoc mam), pepper, cooking oil
• Saffron powder (bột nghệ)
• Annatto seed ( hột đìêu đỏ)
• Garlic, onion and spring onion
• Rice paper (the thick one with sesame on it)

Instructions

1. Wash and cook chicken bone or pork bone with water. When the water is boiled, take the bone out and wash it again. And then place it back to the pot, pour 2 littres of water, add 2 tsps salt and put 2 grilled onion in the pot, bring to a boil over medium heat, occasionally skimming off the foam that rises to the top.
2. Wash and cut chicken breast and pork meat into pieces and put into a bowl. Add salt, pepper, sugar, fish sauce, chopped garlic and cooking oil in that bowl. Mix them together and let stand while preraring the other ingredients.
3. Peel the skin of the prawns and also mix the prawn with spices (pepper, salt, sugar, fish sauce, chopped garlic, cooking oil) .
4. Heat oil in a pan, add 10 tsps oil, stir dry chopped garlic. Take the pan out of the stove, add 3tsps of annato seed and stir quickly and well (this seed makes Mi Quang’ soup has a nice color, so you don’t have to do it, if you dont want to. It’s not exacty 3 tsps of annato seed , you can check the color of the oil mixture and add less or more)) Pour the oil into a bowl, put to one side.
5. Heat oil in a pan, stir fry some slice onion and chopped garlic. add pork, chicken, and prawn. Stir fry until the mixture is cooked. Pour the chicken or pork soup into the pan. Add some more sugar, salt and fish sauce for a good taste if needed. Finally, pour the bowl of annato seed oil in the soup.
6. if you don’t want to use make the chicken soup, you can use the one pack in can. So instead pouring the cooked soup, you can use 1 litter chicken soup in can and add some water if needed.
7. Put boiled water into a pot, add 3 tsps of saffron powder, and then put Pho in there, leave for 1 mins if you use the fresh Pho (with dry Pho, you have to make it soft first). Pour Pho into a basket to get all the water out.
8. Heat oil in a pan with some chop garlic. Pour the oil into the Pho basket and mix them together.
9. Put the rice paper in to the microware for 1 min. Turn to the other side and leave in the microwave for another 1 min.
10. Put Mi Quang ( Pho with saffron powder) into a bowl, pour the soup and chicken, pork, prawn. Serve it with grill rice paper and roasted peanut.

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