Beef, noodle, veggie Pho… yummy…
This is just one of those non recipes… Most of my cooking is made this way…
Today.. It started with this…
A few beef shanks, bones and some slightly freezer burned steak roasting in a pan with a few onions…
Then after a bit more than an hour the stock was started with the roasted beef and onion, all the pan drippings, two heads of garlic, a few large pieces of ginger, star anise, carrots and a few stalks of celery and then covered with water…
After a few hours of simmering, I let it cool, adjusted the seasonings (a bit of tamari and garlic powder were perfect) and then skimmed the fat and strained it leaving a beautiful and fragrant beef broth…
The wok came out and in went a bit of peanut oil and thinly sliced beef marinated in Hoisen sauce for a few seconds, then set it aside…
Then a bit more peanut oil went into my wok along with ginger, garlic, Chinese cabbage, thinly cut celery, carrots and bean sprouts… I added a few ladles of stock and covered until cooked but not soggy… and then set that aside also…
A few toy choy went into the wok… and then in a bit of water with a bit of Tamari and some noodles while I reheated the broth…
When everything was ready, the noodles went into the bowl… then the veggies, the beef and the toy choy with a a few ladles of broth on top…
A squeeze of lime, a bit of Sriracha Chile sauce and it was perfect…
A hearty bowl of delicious goodness…
