Dinner

Beef Pho-Style Broth with Rice Noodles

Name: Beef Pho-Style Broth with Rice Noodles
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 120 g Sirloin steak, fat trimmed, sliced paper thin; 110 g Cooked rice noodles; 600 g Beef stock; 100 g Pak choi; 20 g Spring onion; 1 tsp, about 5 g Fish sauce; A thumb, sliced Fresh ginger; A pinch, or a stick Ground cinnamon; A wedge Lime juice; Half a red chilli, sliced Fresh red chilli; A handful Fresh coriander; A handful Fresh mint

A quick version of the Hanoi soup: stock simmered with ginger, cinnamon and fish sauce, poured hot over rice noodles, pak choi and paper-thin raw sirloin. 33 g of protein for 339 kcal.

Calories: 339kcal
Protein: 33g
Fat: 8g
Carbs: 34g

Per serving, makes 1. 20 minutes of work. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Fish
Celery

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Ingredients

Sirloin steak, fat trimmed, sliced paper thin120 g
Twenty minutes in the freezer first makes it possible to slice this thin. Weighed raw. The same piece weighed after cooking has lost water, so the protein per gram is higher and the total would come out about a quarter over.
Cooked rice noodles110 g
Cooked weight, after soaking.
Beef stock600 g
Made up from a cube or a pot.
Pak choi100 g
Spring onion20 g
Fish sauce1 tsp, about 5 g
Fresh gingerA thumb, sliced
Ground cinnamonA pinch, or a stick
Lime juiceA wedge
Fresh red chilliHalf a red chilli, sliced
Fresh corianderA handful
Fresh mintA handful

Method

Simmer the stock with the ginger, cinnamon and fish sauce for fifteen minutes. Add the pak choi for the last two.
Put the cooked noodles in a deep bowl and lay the raw beef slices over them in one layer.
Bring the broth back to a rolling boil and pour it straight over the beef. It cooks in the bowl in about thirty seconds.
Top with spring onion, chilli, the herbs and a squeeze of lime.

Worth knowing

At 339 kcal with 33 g of protein, the broth is doing the work the fat usually does. Add 50 g more noodles for 55 kcal if it needs to be more filling.
The beef must be sliced thin enough to see through, or the broth will not cook it. If it looks too thick, dip the slices in the boiling stock for ten seconds instead.

Other dinner recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every dinner between 300 and 450 calories a serving.

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