Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chinese watercress soup 西洋菜湯. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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A simple and nutritious soup that is packed with antioxidants. It is known to have cooling properties, usually cooked during hot summer months. It can be easily found in many eateries and cooked in.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chinese watercress soup 西洋菜湯 using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Watercress Soup 西洋菜湯:
- Make ready 2 big bunch of watercress
- Prepare Carrots
- Take 300 g Lean Pork
- Take sweet and bitter almond 南北杏
- Prepare 4 Sweet Dried Candied Dates 蜜棗
- Prepare Dried Duck Kidney (optional)
- Take Dried Tangerine Peels (Optional)
Along the stems are small outshoots. 西洋菜無花果陳腎湯 Watercress and Dried Duck Gizzard Soup. Chinese watercress soup (西洋菜汤) helps to cool your body down according to Chinese medicine and has many health benefits such as lowering blood pressure and promotes vital fluids to lubricate the lungs and relieve a cough. Watercress origin from the West and I guess that why it called 西洋菜 in Chinese. Soak for a few minutes before use; Tip: When washing watercress, watch out for some small snail in between the leaves.
Steps to make Chinese Watercress Soup 西洋菜湯:
- Ingredients, Washed Watercress Well usually soak them for 30 Mins. Others Rinse Well, and Carrots Cut them up in chunks. If you can find Tangerine Peels (which i dont have with me) Soak until soft and scrape the inner side out and place in cold water when start boiling. This will help cough. As for the Dried Duck Kidneys if you can find them. Soak for 30 mins, sliced and place in boiling water for 1 min then take out (place it when cooking the soup later)
- Pork Cut in chunks place in cold water then cook until its boiling for max 4 to 5 mins. Take out and rinse well. Why we do this is to take out the blood and pork smell and also clean out the pork.
- Get a Big Pot half pot full of water. Cold Water pop all ingredients in except the watercess High Heat for 15 mins mins Cover Lids. (you can pop in those peels and duck kidneys in if you have)
- When water is Boiling put watercress in. We place them when water is boiling to avoid bitterness from watercress. Add in more Hot Boiled Water Until Pot is 3/4 Full. Remember to leave 2 handfuls on the side for later use. Boil for another 1.45hrs Med High Heat Cover Lid.
- After a total of 2 hrs you will see there should be only half pot full from evaporation. Taste the soup, add in little salt if needed. Now add in the rest of watercress in and cook for another 15mins. Served hot. Done!
See more ideas about Soup, Chinese soup recipes and Asian soup. I usually prepare small bunch of watercress during hot pot dinner. Watercress can be used in stir-fry recipe, soup recipe or salad. Besides, in the northern part of China, it is also used as the ingredients in dumpling or buns fillings. Procedure: Place ribs and water in a pot and bring to boil.
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