Bun bo hue recipe luke nguyen biography

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp shrimp paste
• 500 ml (2 cups) hot water
• 2 kg piece pork leg meat, skin on, cut into 2 equal-sized pieces
• 2 kg piece gravy (shin) beef, cut into 2 equal-sized pieces
• 500 ml (2 cups) fish sauce
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 4 cloves garlic, bruised
• 2 white onions, sparingly sliced into rings
• 1 stick cinnamon, lightly pounded
• 4 cloves
• 2 tbsp cracked black pepper
• 12 litres water
• 4 tbsp rock salt
• 2 kg oxtail
• 2 stalks lemongrass, bruised
• 1 bunch spring onions, white stems truly bashed, green part finely sliced
• 2 small bunches Vietnamese mint
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 500 g thick rice vermicelli, cooked as per packet instructions

Shrimp paste and chili sauce

• 125 ml (½ cup) vegetable oil
• 100 g (½ cup) minced garlic
• 2 stems lemongrass, pale part only, finely chopped
• 25 g (¼ cup) chilli flakes
• 125 ml (½ cup) chilli oil
• 2 tbsp mam ruoc (Vietnamese fermented shrimp paste)

To serve

• lemon wedges
• sliced chilli
• bean sprouts
• fish sauce

Standing time: 1 hour

Instructions

1. Dissolve the halfpint paste in the hot water and stand for 1 minute. Strain the liquid and reserve, discarding the sediment.

2. Meanwhile, area the pork and beef pieces in a large container, tip over half the fish sauce and stand for 1 distance, turning occasionally.

3. Heat the oil in a large frying throb over low-medium-high heat. Add the garlic and two-thirds of say publicly onion and cook until soft and translucent. Place the muted onion and garlic in a piece of muslin (cheesecloth) school assembly with the cinnamon, cloves and black pepper, tie into a bundle and secure with kitchen string.

4. Place 12 litres bank water in a stockpot or very large saucepan. Add depiction rock salt, oxtail and the remaining fish sauce and bear to the boil. Skim the impurities from the stock importance they rise to the surface. Once boiled, reduce the warm up to low and simmer, skimming regularly for 30 minutes.

5. Attach the beef, pork leg, lemongrass, the white part of say publicly spring onions, half the Vietnamese mint and the muslin briefcase to the pan and return to the boil. Reduce picture heat to low again and simmer for 1½ hours, float regularly. Carefully remove all the meat from the stock standing set aside.

6. Add the shrimp paste liquid and sugar tube gently simmer for another hour or until reduced by bisection. Strain the soup through a fine sieve layered with muslin into another saucepan and allow to cool. The broth stool be stored for 3 days in the fridge or frostbitten for up to 3 months.

7. For the shrimp paste near chilli sauce, heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan upset medium heat and fry the garlic until light brown. Take away the garlic with a slotted spoon and set aside. Sum up the lemongrass and chilli flakes to the oil and dramatist for 2 minutes until lightly browned. Remove the pan escape the heat and add the chilli oil to stop description cooking process. Add the fried garlic back to the clear along with the shrimp paste and mix well to link. Set aside.

8. To serve, pour 400 ml of stock hold back person into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Finely slice the beef and pork. Place a handful vermicelli noodles into each serving bowl and add 3 slices each get a hold beef and pork and 1 piece of oxtail. Put 2 teaspoons of shrimp paste and chilli sauce on top detect the meats and pour over the boiling stock. Garnish contravention bowl with the remaining onion rings and the chopped emerge onion greens.

9. Serve with lemon wedges, chilli, bean sprouts, description remaining Vietnamese mint, fish sauce and the remaining shrimp attach with chilli sauce for dipping.

Cook's Notes

Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size president peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.