Yellow Cucumber Soup (老黄瓜汤)

Consuming this soup is good for the skin and lung, off course also helps to prevent aging. It is high in dietary fiber, calcium, iron and rich in vitamin A, B6 and C.



These are what you need .........


Utensils

Pot


Ingredients

1 medium size yellow cucumber, peel the skin, cut to half, scoop out the seeds, cut into big chunk
100gm pork rib
2 honey dates
8 dried chestnut
Salt to taste


Instructions

1. Put all the ingredients to the pot except salt, fill with 1500ml water
2. Bring to boil with high flame, keep boiling with high flame for 15 minutes
3. Turn to low flame boil for another 2 hours
4. Add salt to taste. 

Now the dish is ready to serve ..........

Seaweed Beet Root soup (紫菜甜菜根瘦身汤)

Sometimes during dinner I don't feel like having rice nor salad, a bowl of hot and nutritious soup just do good for me.

These are what you need .........

Utensils

Pot

Ingredients

Pork bone broth 200ml

Water 300ml

1 Carrot roughly cut

1 beet root roughly cut

2 wedges seaweed

Several fish ball 

Salt to taste

Instructions

1. Put in broth, water, carrot and beet root, bring to boil then turn to medium flame simmer for 1/2 hours
2. Add in seaweed and fish ball shimmer another 10 mins 
3. Add salt to taste

Now your soup is ready to serve.

 

Herbal Soup 润肺养颜汤

During hot weather,feeling heaty or having cough,  this is the right soup to prepare.



These are what you need.........


Utensils

Slow cooker



Ingredients

• I nashi pear/Asian pear
• 400gm pork spinal cord bone
• 50gm dried figs (无花果)
• 30gm white fungus (白木耳)
• 1000ml water

Instructions
Soak the white fungus for 1 hour, change the water and wash it every 15 mins.
Boil a pot of hot water to prior to the bloody of the pork bone.
Cut the pear to half, take away the seed.
Put all the ingredients into the slow cooker, use high flame cook for 2 hours, turn to low flame cook for another hour, soup is ready to serve now.



Herbal advise : this soup is suitable for adult and children, if you don't like it as soup, can cook without pork spinal cord bone, then it can become a dessert, serve cold even taste better.

Red Bean Soup

The red bean soup that I like is the bean must be soft and maintain with it's shape, unlike those selling outside like taking red bean paste soup can't see the whole red bean.

These are what you need......



Utensils

Thermal cooker


Ingredients

• 50gm red bean
• 30gm dried longan
• 80gm rock sugar
• 500ml water 

Instructions

1. Wash the red bean n dried longan
2. Put all the ingredients into the inner pot of thermal cooker
3. Use high flame bring to boil then turn medium flame keep boiling for 15 mins
4. Off fire, put the inner pot to thermal cooker
5. Leave it for 2 hours, and you can have nice shape red soup now.

ABC Soup

Something simple and easy to start with this blog, hope that you will like it. This is something that everyone
should have familiar with......... ABC soup

These are what you need...


Utensils

• Pot

Ingredients

• 300gm pork rib/pork spinal cord bone
• 2  onions
• 1 carrot
• 2 tomatos
• 1 potato

Instructions

1. Boil a pot of hot water, put in pork rib/pork spinal cord bone
2. Leave it for at least 10 minutes in order to make a a clear soup.
3. Dice tomato and onion cut wedge, carrot and potato.
4. Put all the ingredient into soup pot and add 2000ml water, high flame bring to boil 
5. Then turn to medium flame, maintain medium flame boil for 1 hour 
6. Then turn to low flame boil for another hour.
7. Now add salt to taste and the ABC soup is ready to serve.

Herbal Advise
If you have infant at home, use this soup to replace water to cook porridge, it taste yummy and nutrition, believe me they will love it.