Chicken Pho (Slow Cooker)

Chicken Pho (Slow Cooker) handily cooks your chicken and broth in the crockpot for easy work making your favorite Vietnamese noodle soup.
Chicken Pho (Slow Cooker)

Chicken Pho (Slow Cooker)

By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime

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Chicken Pho (Slow Cooker)

For my offering, I wanted to share a recipe for chicken pho with you. Not everything is added to the crock. But it does a great job cooking the chicken for your meat. As well as making a suitable broth.

The other ingredients, such as the noodles and herbs, will not be cooked in there. In fact, the noodles are only soaked in hot water. And the bean sprouts and herbs not cooked at all.

So once you get your broth ready, you can put extra in the fridge or even freeze to make quick work of this meal-sized soup.

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Chicken Pho (Slow Cooker)

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Chicken Pho (Slow Cooker)

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Chicken Pho (Slow Cooker)

Sue Lau
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5 from 6 votes
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 hours
Course Main Course, Soup
Cuisine Asian, Vietnamese
Servings 6
Calories 819 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 large oval slow cooker

Ingredients
  

For the Slow Cooker:

  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • 3 pounds bone-in chicken thighs
  • 2 medium onions peeled
  • 3 inch knob ginger sliced
  • 2 teaspoons garlic
  • 9 cups water
  • 3 tablespoons chicken base or bouillon
  • 2 tablespoons cracked star anise
  • 2 teaspoons coriander seed
  • 2 teaspoons fennel seed
  • 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
  • 2 4- inch cinnamon sticks
  • 1/2 cup fish sauce
  • 1/4 cup sugar

For Soup:

  • 12 ounces dry medium-wide banh pho rice noodles
  • boiling water to cover
  • 6 cups fresh bean sprouts
  • 3 fresh jalapenos thinly sliced
  • 3 scallions sliced
  • 2 cups fresh basil leaves
  • 2 cups fresh cilantro leaves
  • 1 lime cut into 6 wedges
  • 2 tablespoons sambal chili paste or sriracha
  • 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce

Instructions
 

  • Brown chicken in a skillet in the oil and place in the crock.
  • Add everything else to the crock, cover and cook on low for 4-6 hours, then remove the chicken.
  • Discard skin and save the meat in the fridge. Add the bones back to the crock and continue cooking for another4-6 hours on low, to total 10 hours.
  • Strain the broth and discard the solids (not the chicken meat).
  • You can use it now, but I like to refrigerate overnight to allow the fats to solidify (and then I can scoop the solid fat out).
  • Before serving, place the rice noodles in an oblong container and cover with boiling water. Allow to cool. Check a noodle then to see if it is done enough for you. It should be al dente because when you add hot broth it cooks a little bit more. Otherwise add boiling water again and drain it when it is tender enough. I prefer a soak to cooking them as they easily overcook and get mushy. And most recipes don't really tell you that.
  • Anyway, place the noodles in your large soup bowl. Cover with the chicken, and very hot or near boiling broth.
  • Top with bean sprouts, herbs of choice, jalapenos, scallions, squeeze with lime and add a squirt or hoisin sauce and sambal chili paste. I prefer non-fermented sambal to sriracha but do what you like.

Notes

from the kitchen of palatablepastime.com

Nutrition

Calories: 819kcalCarbohydrates: 78gProtein: 40gFat: 39gSaturated Fat: 9gPolyunsaturated Fat: 9gMonounsaturated Fat: 17gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 189mgSodium: 2611mgPotassium: 929mgFiber: 7gSugar: 18gVitamin A: 1185IUVitamin C: 27mgCalcium: 162mgIron: 6mg
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5 responses

  1. Slow cooker perfection. Cooked tender meat and broth…and then fresh ingredients to add flavor and texture…YUM! My kind of crockpot meal!

  2. I’ve only ever had beef pho (at least once a month!) I need to branch out with chicken! Saving this to make soon.

    • The beef is arguably the most common and popular. Making the broth for that takes considerably longer. But any pho is good pho, provided it’s a good recipe.

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