Vietnamese pho ga in a bowl - Olga Peshkova/Getty Images A rich, umami-packed bowl of soupy noodles can be the ultimate balm to nourish your body and soul. And nothing fits the role better than the ...

1. In a soup pot, bring the water, scallions, ginger, and salt to a boil. Add the chicken breasts and return to a boil. Skim well. Lower heat and simmer for 15 minutes. 2. Turn the burner off, cover ...

Peel ginger and quarter the onion. Roast at 300 degrees for 1 hour to intensify flavors. Cool ginger and slice. Bone chicken and remove skin except from chicken breast. Add chicken bones, chicken skin ...

1) In a large stock pot combine the chicken stock, fresh ginger, daikon radish, parsley, onion, cloves, bay leaves and chopped chicken. all of the stock ingredients and simmer for 45 minutes. Strain ...

1. To prepare the broth: Remove skin from chicken as much as possible. Put chicken into a large pot and add 3½ quarts water. Cut the ginger into ½-inch pieces and add to the pot with salt and ...

Reheating the chicken in broth magnifies the flavors of both, and because you’re using rice noodles, the soup won’t get cloudy or starchy. And if it’s a cold you’re fighting, jalapeño and sriracha ...

Great chicken pho (pho ga) is much harder to find in Little Saigon than great beef pho. I’m not sure why that is, but that’s a fact. There are only three or four places that make genuinely good ...

There are noodle soups and there is pho, Vietnam’s richly complex gift to the world. Pho (say: fuh) may prompt wisecracks and pun-ny T-shirts, judging by those we saw at Ho Chi Minh City’s Ben Thanh ...

Charles Phan, author of “Vietnamese Home Cooking’’ and chef-owner of The Slanted Door restaurants in San Francisco, makes the chicken for his chicken pho in an unusual way. He simmers the poultry for ...