Bò Kho

Name: Bò Kho
Total time: 2 h 45 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 1.2 kg Beef shin or brisket, in 4 cm cubes; 3 Lemongrass stalks, bruised and tied; 30 g Fresh ginger, sliced; 6 Garlic cloves, minced; 4 Shallots, sliced; 3 tbsp Tomato paste; 3 tbsp Annatto oil; 1.5 tsp Five-spice powder; 2 Star anise; 2 Bay leaves; 4 tbsp Fish sauce; 500 ml Coconut water; 700 ml Beef stock or water; 4 Carrots, in thick rounds; 1 handful Thai basil and coriander; 2 Baguette, to serve

Beef and carrots simmered in a tomato and lemongrass base until the sauce turns deep orange and clings — eaten with a baguette for breakfast, or over noodles later in the day.

Source

Recette de Vietnamese home kitchens · 🏺 Traditionnel · Everyday Vietnamese home cooking, made the same way from Hanoi to Cà Mau

Vietnam · beef and lemongrass — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms it as a Vietnamese stew of beef and carrots simmered in a tomato base infused with lemongrass and ginger. Quantities and the coconut-water note are this book's own.

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Toss the beef with the five-spice, garlic, half the fish sauce and a spoon of the annatto oil. Leave 30 minutes.
Brown the beef hard in batches in the remaining oil. Do not crowd the pot.
Fry the shallots and ginger, stir in the tomato paste and cook 2 minutes until it darkens.
Return the beef, add the coconut water, stock, lemongrass, star anise and bay. Cover and simmer 2 hours.
Add the carrots and cook uncovered 30 minutes more, until the sauce coats the back of a spoon.
💡 Uncovered for the last half hour. Bò kho is a stew you scoop with bread, not a soup — it has to reduce.
Pull out the lemongrass and star anise. Finish with the herbs and serve with torn baguette.

💡 Astuces

Breakfast food in Vietnam, sold beside the bánh mì carts. Bò kho for dinner is a foreigner's schedule.
The same pot over rice noodles is bò kho bánh mì's other half — nothing changes but what is under it.