There are few things in this world that satisfy the palette as much as a bowl of Pho. This Vietnamese comfort food is basically a noodle soup with its assorted condiments and protein of your choice. This dish is a wonderful taste of south east Asia that can easily be brought into your home and cooked with your kids.
One of the great aspects to this meal is the source of the ingredients. Our children see the supermarket all the time. Have you ever taken them into an Asian market? The sites, the smells and atmosphere is a different world. They will see ingredients that you wont find anywhere else. My daughter pulls a bag off the shelf and asked me "what's this daddy". When I looked down and saw it was a bag of dried jellyfish I saw that as a great opportunity to explain a little more of the food world to her. We were easily able to find our rice noodles, bean sprouts, pho stock, fresh Thai basil, and a lime. We left the jellyfish at the store.
You need to time your ingredients correct as they all need to come together in the end. Some people
use beef and others use chicken or pork as the protein. Since we have had plenty of red meat lately my daughter seasoned with salt and pepper some cut up chicken breast and daddy sautéed them in a pan until browned. We set the chicken aside and began work on the soup. We cooked the noodles and began to construct our meals. You can actually put thin slices of raw beef into your soup and it will cook right in front of you.
First my daughter spooned the noodles into the bottom of the bowl. She then added about 6-8 pieces of chicken into the bowls. I added the soup and she placed the basil and bean sprouts in each bowl. With a little squeeze of lime juice, we were finished. I added a few peppers and some hot sauce to my pho because I like the heat. Dinner was served.
This was a great opportunity to bring the flavors of south east Asia into our kitchen with a warm, filling bowl of pho. There is plenty for the kids to do from the noodles and lime to meal construction and we had a blast. Get the kids off the computer and put them in the kitchen. This meal took us about 30-45 minutes to put together. The memory will last a lifetime.
So soup up and lets cook!
One of the great aspects to this meal is the source of the ingredients. Our children see the supermarket all the time. Have you ever taken them into an Asian market? The sites, the smells and atmosphere is a different world. They will see ingredients that you wont find anywhere else. My daughter pulls a bag off the shelf and asked me "what's this daddy". When I looked down and saw it was a bag of dried jellyfish I saw that as a great opportunity to explain a little more of the food world to her. We were easily able to find our rice noodles, bean sprouts, pho stock, fresh Thai basil, and a lime. We left the jellyfish at the store.
You need to time your ingredients correct as they all need to come together in the end. Some people
use beef and others use chicken or pork as the protein. Since we have had plenty of red meat lately my daughter seasoned with salt and pepper some cut up chicken breast and daddy sautéed them in a pan until browned. We set the chicken aside and began work on the soup. We cooked the noodles and began to construct our meals. You can actually put thin slices of raw beef into your soup and it will cook right in front of you.First my daughter spooned the noodles into the bottom of the bowl. She then added about 6-8 pieces of chicken into the bowls. I added the soup and she placed the basil and bean sprouts in each bowl. With a little squeeze of lime juice, we were finished. I added a few peppers and some hot sauce to my pho because I like the heat. Dinner was served.
This was a great opportunity to bring the flavors of south east Asia into our kitchen with a warm, filling bowl of pho. There is plenty for the kids to do from the noodles and lime to meal construction and we had a blast. Get the kids off the computer and put them in the kitchen. This meal took us about 30-45 minutes to put together. The memory will last a lifetime.
So soup up and lets cook!
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