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Currently: homemade chicken pho
recent soups ive had! im happy to be home :]
Pho Ga with Thai Basil Oil
IG: sanssho
I made pho today (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
Egy pho ga (csirkehúsos pho) levest főzök ma. Kezdésnek megpirítom a fűszereket: hagymát, fokhagymát, gyömbért, csillagánizst, szerecsendiót, szegfűszeget, fahéjat, borsot. Majd odarakom a csirkehúst a pirított fűszerekkel főni, só és halszósz megy még bele.
Take two of baguettes (I froze most of the dough). I am able to make a pretty good steam setup in my tabletop oven in the standard way: pizza stone on the second rack, small tray under. Have a spray bottle with water, about a cup of water in an easily pourable and heatproof container, a towel and potholders handy.
Preheat 20 minutes, then working quickly, slash the loaf (I use kitchen shears because I maul bread dough if I use a razor), place it on the stone, spray with water, put a towel on the oven glass (to keep any splashed water from shattering it), and pour the water into the tray. Remove the towel and close the oven door as soon as you can to conserve steam and heat.
The crust was better, in that homemade way - a bit more gelatinous and chewy rather than crackly, but good. But the bread was a touch underdone as compared to the first. I think the steam (and all the oven opening) may mean the temperature drops and I need to cook longer.
It still made a delicious banh mi with sliced top round cooked 45 seconds on each side. [And a banh mi taco with the leftover bits]
Dinner was Vietnamese as well - pho ga - or chicken pho. You can doctor plain chicken stock into a good fake pho broth: char a half an onion (in one piece) and a chunk of ginger in a skillet. Toss that in along with salt, sugar, fish sauce and star anise, coriander seed, cinnamon stick and whole clove. Simmer about an hour while you make the other stuff. Except for the cilantro, the herbs came from my window garden.