Quick Beef Pho

Name: Quick Beef Pho
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Cuisine: Asian, Vietnamese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons (30 g) beef bouillon or base; 1 tablespoon (15 g) Vietnamese fish sauce; 1 tablespoon (15 g) white sugar; One (2" [5-cm]) piece ginger, sliced into thin tiles; 1/2 yellow onion, large dice; Pinch kosher salt; 2 whole cloves; 2 whole star anise; 1 cinnamon stick; 1/2 pound (240 g) thin rice stick noodles, rinsed; 1/2 pound (240 g) beef strip loin or fillet, shaved thin; 1 cup (240 g) Vietnamese basil leaves; 1 cup (240 g) bean sprouts; 1/2 cup (95 g) cilantro leaves; 5 jalapeno or serrano chiles, sliced thin; 4 scallions, sliced thin on the bias; 1/2 yellow onion, sliced paper thin; 1 lime, cut into wedges; Hoisin sauce, for the table; Chili sauce, such as Sriracha, for the table

Instructions

Cook:20min

I wrote this recipe for fast pho because you don't always want to take a whole day to source the ingredients for and make pho from scratch. This is an awesome hack to be eating pho in an hour! You can find all the ingredients locally and even have them delivered. Slicing beef paper thin can be a pain. Japanese and Chinese markets always stock paper-thin meats for shabu shabu or sukiyaki.

Updated at: Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:58:39 GMT