Recipe of Perfect Pork meatball pho

Pork meatball pho.

You can have Pork meatball pho using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pork meatball pho

1. Prepare 1.5 l of beef stock.
2. Prepare 1 of star anise.
3. You need 1 tsp of ground ginger.
4. It's 2 of bashed cloves garlic.
5. It's 2 tbsp of fish sauce.
6. Prepare of For the meatballs.
7. You need 400 g of pork mince.
8. It's 3 of x rivita style crackers.
9. It's 1 tsp of lemongrass paste.
10. It's 2 of crushed cloves garlic.
11. It's 1 tsp of dried coriander leaves.
12. It's 1 of beaten egg.
13. It's 2 tsp of fish sauce.
14. You need of For the pho.
15. You need 200 g of rice noodles.
16. You need of Spinach.
17. Prepare of Crushed chillis.
18. It's of Hot sauce (optional).

Pork meatball pho instructions

1. Add the star anise, ginger, fish sauce and garlic to the beef stock. Bring it gently to a simmer and then reduce the heat to keep warm. Keep a lid on it to stop the liquid evaporating..
2. In a pestle and mortar bash the crackers, then add the lemongrass, garlic and coriander..
3. Transfer the cracker mixture to a large bowl then add the pork mince, egg and fish sauce with a crack of black pepper and mix together..
4. Roll the mince into 12 balls and leave on a plate.
5. Remove the star anise and garlic from the stock then carefully add the meatballs and pop the lid back on..
6. Boil 1 litre of water and add the rice noodles to the pan. Cook for about 10 minutes then drain..
7. Divide the noodles into 4 bowls and pour over 2 ladles of stock into each one. Give each bowl 3 meatballs and then serve. Allow each eater to add the spinach, hot sauce, chilli powder and coriander to their taste..