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Instant Pot Oxtail Pho. serves 4

Broth:
1 pound brisket
2 pounds marrow bones
2 pounds oxtail
1 large onion
2 inches peeled ginger
3 tbsp fish sauce
Pho spice pack

Garnish:
1 onion
5 green onion
Half a bunch of cilantro
1 bunch Thai Basil
1 bunch culantro
1 bunch bean sprouts
1 lime
1 large jalapeño

Noodles:
2 packs of fresh Pho noodles.

Blanch bones, oxtail, and brisket in boiling water for 10 minutes. Discard water and wash bones and meat in cold water. This removes impurities.

Roast halved onion and peeled ginger til slightly blackened. I use a 25 dollar amazon blowtorch for this. You can also use a broiler or your stove top. Roasting the veg adds toasty flavors.

Put everything in the instant pot and fill almost to the top with water. High pressure for 1:30.

Remove brisket. You must remove at 1:30 or else it becomes too soft to cut. This brisket is so flavorful and perfectly tender. Adds a lot to the broth and is delicious when sliced thin and added to the bowl.

Fill water back up to replace volume of removed brisket.

1:30 more high pressure.

Remove marrow bones and oxtail. I usually eat the bone marrow at this point on toast. The oxtail is saved for eating in the bowl. Oxtail is so uniquely delicious. Discard onion and ginger.

Refrigerate oxtail, brisket, and broth overnight. This helps solidify fat for removal and lets flavors mingle longer.

Next day, 1 hour before eating, reheat broth. Add spice mix. Simmer with spices for 1 hour. I use an Asian market store bought spice pack that has Star anise, cardamom, cassia bark, fennel, coriander, clove all inside. You can find this on Amazon. Sieve the broth. Taste for seasoning. I usually add 4-5 more tbsp of fish sauce. The broth should be 1-2 tbsp beyond perfectly flavored ie. too salty. When the broth is added to the bowl all the other ingredients dilute the saltiness.

Slice white onion paper thin.
Slice green onion, use just the green parts.
Slice jalapeño thin.
Finely chop cilantro.
Quarter the lime.
Wash and serve the culantro, basil, and bean sprouts
Put all garnish on a plate.

Slice brisket thin and reheat in boiling water. I hold it in a sieve over a boiling pot.
Reheat oxtail in similar manner.
Plate these.

Cook the Pho noodles and add to bowls.

Let people add their own garnishes and meats at the table. Bring the boiling Pho pot to the table and ladle it over each persons bowl.

Enjoy!

I own this book, and it's really awesome: The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favorite Soup and Noodles https://www.amazon.com/dp/1607749580/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_0RHLAb9M1M6BV

That's a good question, I actually kind of don't use one?
I would say this is probably closest to my "recipe". I go by taste/smell. Adding things here and there if it's not right.

These are also awesome for when you're new to making pho and can help round out your broth.

This is the book I've heard the best things about, but I haven't cooked any recipes from it yet to know if its really good:

https://www.amazon.com/Pho-Cookbook-Adventurous-Vietnams-Favorite-ebook/dp/B01F2IW9EO/ref=sr_1_1?crid=190OJJFNJ9WSD&keywords=pho+cookbook+andrea+nguyen&qid=1562854645&s=gateway&sprefix=pho+cookboo%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-1

If you don't have one yet, I would recommend getting an Instant Pot. It makes broth making in general quick and easy. I only used it once so far to make pho (with great results), but have used it to make a number of different stocks and broth in the past.

Well, all the pho I've ever had used rice noodles (vermicelli)
Tons of different brands that are pretty much identical.
I usually go with the flat rice noodles:
https://www.amazon.com/Vietnamese-Stick-vermicelli-Three-Ladies/dp/B00ADHM9WW

(Usually way cheaper than 7$ on Amazon)
Most general grocery stores sell them for $2 per 16oz package.

I bought this book from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Pho-Cookbook-Adventurous-Vietnams-Favorite/dp/1607749580 and it is very good. Many recipes for different types of pho.

12 quarts. Nothing too expensive. Think $50, not $100. You want riveted handles, no exceptions.

Cuisinart is a brand name that has some fairly generic, totally fine options in the $40–70 range.

Cheap

Less cheap

Amazon also sells Winco, which is a brand you're likely to see at a kitchen supply store. Something like this is great.

On the extreme cheap end, Family Dollar actually carries a solidly-made 12qt stockpot for $10, but I gotta say it's made of such thin aluminum that it takes fucking forever to bring to a boil because the heat just seems to dissipate right off of it. I recommend Cuisinart or Winco, and don't suggest you look at anything by All-Clad. There is absolutely no reason to spend All-Clad money on a stock pot.

Have you tried this stuff? https://amzn.com/B00FAWIXM0

amazon is sold out of the ton & company. Do stores sell it?

For less messy amazon links you can extract the part after "/dp/" in

https://www.amazon.com/PHO-Beef-Broth-Gluten-Free/dp/B00FAWIXM0/ref=pd_sim_325_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00FAWIXM0&pd_rd_r=D7JWT4Q4ZSBYMDC23YWS&pd_rd_w=6Jbqv&pd_rd_wg=4BbM6&psc=1&refRID=D7JWT4Q4ZSBYMDC23YWS

and make it:

https://amzn.com/B00FAWIXM0

Or via smile link:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00FAWIXM0

BEEP BOP

Plz send any recommendations via PM

It's within reach, I just use a Presto, it was legit less than $100. Not sure what they would cost in Europe but I can't imagine it would be too much more.

That all said, this is the giant pressure cooker of my dreams.