Vietnamese noodle soup with beef (phở bò)

Instructions

1. Start off by parboiling the beef soup bones by boiling water in the big pot. You can use an electric kettle her to make the water boil faster. Make sure all the bones are covered. 
2. Drain the water and move the meat over into a colander.
3. Boil water in the pot again and wait for it to boil
4. When the water is boiling add the bones.
5. Peel the carrots into 3-4 cm pieces and peel the onions as well.
6. Remove the foam as it appears in the soup.
7. Add the carrots, onions, lemongrass and ginger and let it simmer for 2 hours. Add sugar and salt.
8. Turn the stove off and let it rest for a few hours or overnight.
9. Rinse the salad and herbs.
10. Cut the lime into wedges and the onion into thin slices.
11. Add spices: star anises, cardamom, cloves, black cardamom, cinnamon, fennel seeds, coriander seeds (bo kho spices).
12. Cut the beef into thin slices for serving. If the meat is too thick to be boiled when serving the food, then you put some beef in a ladle/skimmer and let it boil in the soup pot and take the meat out again.
13. Let it boil for 1 hour and turn off the stove.
14. Turn the stove on 15 - 30 minutes before serving and remember to boil the noodles as well.