Restaurant Quality Chicken PHO at Home (a comprehensive guide with recipe) | Leighton Pho

During the week I made a simple Pho Ga recipe. I sold it to real customers at my store and it's guaranteed to give you a restaurant quality Pho at home. NOTE: I will do up a downloadable PDF recipe guide to follow to accompany this video once I get back from my trip. I will also do a 10 minute version of this video. Recipe name: Restaurant Quality Chicken Pho rev 1 Target Volume: 2.6L Servings: 5 serves at 500mL each Cooking time: Day 1 - creating base = 6 hours / Day 2 - blending = 30 mins Ingredients (overview) 1/2 brown onion 1 small piece of ginger 1kg boiler hen 1.5kg pork bones Spice component Cinnamon - 8g Star anise - 4g Seasoning Salt Rock Sugar Fish Sauce MSG Knorr Chicken Powder ------------------------------------------ Pre-requisite - 2.5L of BASE Day 1 - creating the Base Base: 1kg boiler hen 1.5kg pork bones* (mix of pork and pig trotters) *optional Optional: Creating a "spare tire" 2kg boiler hen Simmer 6 hours / Finish with 2L or 1:1 Method: 1) Parboil for 5 mins / dump water / rinse bones 2) Place in pot with clean water 3) Fill with approx 5L 4) Simmer for 6 hours 5) Strain and pour finished base into container 6) Top up to 5L 7) Chill and save in fridge or freezer ------------------------------------------ Day 2 - blending 1) Take out 2.5L of base 2) Place in pot 3) Add salt = ~ 35 grams 4) Add rock sugar = ~ 50 grams 5) Add Knorr chicken powder = 3 teaspoons 6) Add fish sauce at the end = 1 to 2 tea spoons 7) Add MSG (optional) = 1 tea spoon 8) Taste - if good then proceed to next section. If it doesn't taste right refer to trouble shooting chapter. Something went wrong! Day 2 - once taste if correct 1) Add 1/2 onion (charred or grill in oven it's up to you) 2) Add small piece of ginger 3) Add cinnamon = 8 grams 4) Add star anise = 4 grams 5) Final taste - if it still lacks some body ADD in a cup of chicken concentrate or spare tire. This recipe is meant to serve as a guide. Feel free to modify the recipe to your liking after you have tried making this once. Chapter: 00:00 - The Blend Method 01:59 - Intro 03:49 - Explaining BRIX 05:38 - The Base 07:28 - Hot tip no. 1 08:43 - Creating the Base 13:54 - Story of my first Pho Ga 16:38 - Seasoning overview 18:09 - Seasoning walk through 20:44 - A weak ass base 23:50 - A spare tire 27:30 - Finished product 27:55 - Back to front 29:56 - Outro #leightonpho #phoga #chickenphorecipe #photutorial