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Posted on 12th Jul 2025

Bún Bò Huế (Vietnamese Pork and Beef Soup)

A richly spiced and aromatic Vietnamese beef noodle soup topped with fresh herbs and a deeply flavoured Sate sauce

Cuisine

Vietnamese

Time

3 hrs mins

Servings

4 people people

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Ingredients

Toppings and noodles

  • 4-5 nests dried round vermicelli noodles, soaked
  • Mint and coriander to serve
  • Lime wedges
  • Bean sprouts, washed
  • Sliced red chilli, spring onions

Soup Broth

  • 2 pig’s trotters, halved
  • 500g piece beef shin
  • 1 large brown onion, peeled, halved
  • 4 lemongrass stalks, bashed
  • 3inch-piece ginger, unpeeled, sliced
  • 2 tbsp shrimp paste
  • 250 - 300ml of water

Aromatic Oil

  • 1 tbsp chilli powder
  • ½ tbsp turmeric
  • ½ tbsp cumin
  • 1g saffron threads
  • 3 cloves of garlic (finely chopped)
  • 4 thai shallots (finely chopped)
  • 50ml - 100ml oil

Sate Sauce

  • 100 ml vegetable oil
  • 30g soaked dried chillies, finely chopped
  • 1 lemongrass stalk, finely chopped
  • 3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
  • 4 thai shallots,finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp chilli powder (gochugaru)
  • 1 tbsp of sugar
  • 1 tsp of salt
  • 1 tbsp of fish sauce

Method

The Broth

Place the pig’s trotters in a pot of boiling water, and allow the scum to rise to the surface. Drain and rinse the trotters and place back into the pot and bring it up to boil again.

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