Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chinese watercress soup 西洋菜湯. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Chinese Watercress Soup is a simple delicious soup. 西洋菜湯 It's a traditional Chinese Soup from southern China, It's a slow cooked soup that is good for your. One serving of our Chinese Watercress Soup will mean you get to enjoy the nutrients found in watercress, including vitamins K, C and A. This Chinese Watercress Soup will make every family weekday dinner complete.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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
- Get Carrots
- Prepare 300 g Lean Pork
- Get sweet and bitter almond 南北杏
- Take 4 Sweet Dried Candied Dates 蜜棗
- Make ready Dried Duck Kidney (optional)
- Make ready Dried Tangerine Peels (Optional)
The dried honey dates amplify the sweetness of the soup and I also added some dried oysters for an extra depth of flavour. Did you know Watercress Soup is good for your (sore) throat and lung? Recipe by Nanyang Express 南洋小厨Course: SoupsCuisine: Chinese. My mother used to boil Chinese watercress soup when the season of flu and cough was most prevalent.
Instructions 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!
Though we were too young to understand its nutritional value, we were very satisfied to have a bowl of soup accompanied by a bowl of rice and some cut red chilli with light soya sauce as a dip. This is instant pot Chinese watercress pork soup (西洋菜豬骨蜜棗湯). It helps with lungs disease and moisture your lungs from coughing. Also, my mom likes to make this Chinese pork and watercress soup during fall. Memory with watercress harvest A Classic Cantonese Soup.
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