Bo Kho: Vietnamese Beef Stew
Red Pho

Bo Kho is a Vietnamese dish, it is an adaptation of the Western cuisines' slow-cooked dishes. In Laos, we call it the Red Pho and we love it. The invariable element of this dish is the beef stew. To prepare it, we use either a pressure cooker as in my recipe, or a longer conventional cooking over low heat. The meat and the vegetables must be melting in mouth.

We can enjoy this stew with rice noodles, the same ones we use for the Pho soup. But we can also eat it with Thai fragrant rice or with a good French baguette.

The preparation will always contain lemongrass and star anise, and you can find many variants: with beer, coconut juice, curry or turmeric... Find out your preferred way to eat Bo Kho: with semolina, Italian pasta, steamed potatoes? Bon appétit.