Chicken Pho

Out of the four of us, three really love Pho.  The other, well, he doesn't like much.  :)  We're pretty fortunate to live in an area that has a ton of Vietnamese restaurants.  We have our favorites and we frequent them regularly.

Dave has mentioned a few times that I should try my hand at making pho, but it's always seemed like too much work for the time I had available to me.

Last week I bought 2 whole chickens to roast and wound up throwing each of the carcasses into a crockpot to make stock.  I wound up with 8 quarts, which, coincidentally was how much I needed for a chicken pho recipe I'd read recently.  I decided then and there that I was going to commit to it.  I headed out to the store to grab a few things I was missing and boom, dinner was decided!

I followed a recipe, but adjusted it to taste as I went along.  It wasn't terribly hard and I would absolutely make it again.  Our place smelled amazing and we had plenty of leftovers.

Baguettes, salad, pho and fixin's  :)

 A closer look at the fixin's.  Bean sprouts, cilantro, green onion, jalepenos, hoisin, sriracha and sambal oelek.

The pho itself.  Not bad for a first shot.  I think the broth is too cloudy, but the taste was there, so I'm happy with my first try.