Vietnamese Spicy Beef Noodle Soup Recipe (Bún Bò Huế)

The soup is originally from Central Vietnam city, Hue. It’s a popular Vietnamese soup and known for its spicy, salty and little sweet tastes and predominant flavor of lemongrass. Generally, the main ingredients to cook the broth are beef bones, pork hocks, beef flank or beef chuck roast. The dish can be made as spicy as you would like, or it could be made as non-spicy for kids to enjoy. For those that like it really spicy, you can add sautéed chili. You can also use pressure cooker to speed up the cooking without compromising the taste.
For other popular beef soup, you can try this recipe, Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup Recipe (Phở Bò).

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Prep Time | 10 minutes |
Cook Time | 1.5 hours |
Servings |
servings
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- 3 lbs beef bones
- 1 lb flank steak (or beef chuck roast)
- 1 1/2 lbs pork hocks
- 3 stalks lemongrass
- 1/4 pineapple (optional but recommended)
- 1 yellow onion (peeled)
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp sugar
- 2 tsp shrimp paste (Vietnamese fermented shrimp paste, optional)
- beef broth
- 3 tsp lemongrass (minced)
- 3 tsp shallots (minced)
- 3 tsp red chili powder (Paprika Powder, see recipe note for picture)
- 2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp fish sauce
- 1/4 red cabbage (optional)
- 1/4 white cabbage
- 2 lime
- 2 green onions
- 1/4 yellow onion
- bean sprouts
- fresh mint leaves (Asian mints)
- cilantro
- rice vermicelli
- meat loaf (Vietnamese style, optional)
Ingredients
For the Soup
For the Sate Chili Sauce
For the Vegetables
For the Soup Bowl
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- Wash the mints and bean sprouts carefully. Cut limes into wedges. Chop green onion finely. Cut cilantro coarsely. Slice yellow onion thinly. Cut white cabbage and purple cabbage thinly. Set aside.
- Cut Vietnamese meat loaf. Slice the beef chuck roast thinly. Set aside.
- Place noodle into a soup bowl. Arrange beef slices, pork hock,and Vietnamese meat loaf. Garnish with yellow onion slices. Top with green onion and cilantro.
- Ladle the hot broth over the meats and noodles until it is almost full of the bowl. Add vegetables and squeeze the lime juice. Add more chili sate’ sauce if you want more spicy.
Optionally, you can add one teaspoon of Spicy Beef Flavor Paste (Gia Vị Bún Bò Huế) to make the flavor even stronger.