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Carrot Radish Bamboo Burdock Soup

March 24, 2015 by Ho Lang

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Carrot Radish Bamboo Burdock Soup

There are times when clarity is no longer there, and we are now into unchartered waters. I looked into my fridge and the slew of ingredients that I bought over the weekend, and for the life of me, I couldn’t recall the recipe that someone suggested for me to do.

That problem could be compounded by the fact that information fly at us all the time, in simultaneous fashion, and unstoppable. To the point that if we heard something interesting, and if we didn’t make a special effort to note it down, then it is likely to be lost in the wasteland of forgotten words.

I vaguely remember it, and it goes something like, this plus this plus that and that. Bah! I can’t remember. Forget it.

So today, I am making carrot radish bamboo burdock soup. Making it in the way that I always like to do, and that is to keep it simple.

Recipe

Ingredients

1 medium Carrot
1 medium White Radish
1 packet of fresh Bamboo
80-90 cm length of Burdock Root
250 grams Pork Ribs
Sea Salt

Method

1. Peel, shave the carrot, the radish and the burdock. If you want, you may soak the burdock first. Otherwise throw the prepared ingredients into the pot. By this time the frozen pork ribs would already be in place and waiting (with open arms and open palms).

2. Slice the bamboo, not too small slices, you don’t want the bamboo to “disappear”. Again once it is ready, just throw them into the pot. Add two pinches of salt and add a boiling kettle of water. Turn heat high and boil furiously for at least 20 minutes. After that is done, place the pot into the thermal cooker and allow time and heat to work the romance. Come back 12 hours later, and it’s ready.

Bon Appetit!

Posted in: Asian, Food, Local, Pork, Recipes, Soup, Vegetables Tagged: bamboo, burdock, carrots, pork ribs, Radish, 牛蒡

Black Chicken Burdock Soup

March 13, 2015 by Ho Lang

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Black Chicken Burdock Soup

I have always wanted to make this soup and I can already imagine how delicious this soup would taste like even before cooking. The burdock soup with pork ribs was already delicious so with the addition of the black chicken, needless to say, this soup is gonna rock and roll.

The recipe is very much like the Burdock Soup 牛蒡汤 that I made recently, but except that now the recipe is complete. No more reliance on pre-packed herbal remedies. I have found the perfect confluence of ingredients for this soup.

Every ingredient brings to the table a slew of medicinal benefits. Otherwise it really makes for a great tasting soup. Try it!

Recipe

Ingredients

Half a Black Chicken (chopped into two parts)
80-90 cm length of Burdock Root 牛蒡
Bunch of Wolfberries
Bunch of Dried Red Dates
Salt

Method

1. Boil a kettle of water. Clean and peel off bark of Burdock Root. Then slice thinly (see picture below). You may soak it in hot water for 10 minutes if you like. Otherwise if you prefer a stronger earthy taste, then just drop it into the pot.

2. Place the half a chicken into the pot. As you can see my black chicken is frozen. My intention is always to simplify the process. So frozen black chicken is fine, no need to thaw. Just drop it into the pot. Add Wolfberries, add dried red dates and a pinch of salt. Then add the hot boiling water and boil at high heat (with lid on) for 20 minutes.

3. Place it in thermal cooker after that for 12 hours (which is when I get home) and the soup would be delicious. Black chicken tender. Soup rich with flavour.

Bon Appetit!

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Sliced Burdock Root 牛蒡

Posted in: Asian, Chicken, Food, Ingredient, Recipes, Soup Tagged: black chicken, burdock root, dried red dates, greater burdock, herbal, wolfberries, 牛蒡, 牛蒡汤

Burdock Soup 牛蒡汤

March 3, 2015 by Ho Lang

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Burdock Soup 牛蒡汤

Some say you are what you eat. Eat wood, you become wood. Burdock root is well as truly wood. The woody stem of the Greater Burdock plant seems to have some nutritional goodness other then looking like a tree branch.

It tastes like ginseng and apparently help with eczematic skin conditions. Otherwise it is a very delicious soup to drink. The wife loves it.

Recipe

Ingredients

1 Metre length of Greater Burdock
Handful of Wolfberries
Handful of Dried Red Dates
250 grams of Pork Ribs
Salt

Method

1. Shave the bark off the burdock. Sliced it diagonally and soak in hot water for about ten minutes.

2. Boil a large kettle of water. Pour it into a pot. Turn on high heat. Add pork ribs, Wolfberries, red dates, and when the burdock is soaked, add it in as well.

3. Boil at high heat for 30 minutes with lid on. Serve. The ribs might not be drop off the bone tender but the soup is very good.

Bon Appetit!!

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Boiling the ingredients

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Greater Burdock Root

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Greater Burdock Root

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Greater Burdock Root

Posted in: Asian, Food, Local, Pork, Recipes, Soup Tagged: dried red dates, greater burdock, pork ribs, wolfberries, 牛蒡

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