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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Lean Pork Soup with Green Radish and Carrots


Indications:
Sore Throat, coughing with much phlegm

Functions:
It benefits the spleen and the throat, promotes urination, clears heat, eases mental stress, expels phlegm and stops coughing

Ingredients:
300gm green radish
200gm white radish
150gm carrot
19gm bitter almonds (北杏, 5 钱)
19gm sweet almonds (南杏, 5 钱 )
2 candied dates
250gm lean pork
salt to taste


Method:
1. Rinse pork, cut into smaller pieces and scald it in boiling water for 1 minute.
2. Peel radishes and carrots, cut into chunks. Rinse the almonds and date.
3. Bring 2.5L water to a boil, and put everything in, except salt.
4. Bring to a boil and lower heat to simmer for 2 hours. Season with salt and serve.


Actually this recipe needs more carrots, 300gm of it. But I only have 150gm at home, so I put in white radish, of which I had, to make up for it.

Recipe adapted from Soups for Expelling Dampness and Heat, by Chiu Sang.

11 comments:

  1. I make this soup whenever my daughter is sick and it works like wonder. I'm a true believer in using food as medicine.

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  2. er... this is not halal food. but it is ok for me. :P

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  3. Never had green radish....the soup looks very soothing and nutritious.

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  4. This soup is exactly the kind of soup my mother would make. She used to force me to drink these...I don't know why but I never like to drink my mother's soup.... my last comment on your prune cake went missing, I think... recently, there seems to be some problems with the comments moderation function of Blogspot...

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  5. I used to cook mixed radish soup too until I read this. So many schools of thoughts, sigh...

    红白萝卜混吃

      红白萝卜混吃:白萝卜中的维生素C含量极高,但红萝卜中却含有一种叫抗坏血酸的分解酵素,它会破坏白萝卜中的维生素C。一旦红白萝卜配合,白萝卜中的维生素C就会丧失殆尽。不仅如此,在与含维生素C的蔬菜配合烹调时,红萝卜都充当了破坏者的角色。还有胡瓜、南瓜等也含有类似红萝卜的分解酵素。

    http://woman.zaobao.com/pages5/recipe050715.html

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  6. Rose Belle,
    Yeah, I do believe that different foods have different nutritions and compounds that have certain benefits to the body

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  7. Angie,
    It taste very delicious too!!!

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  8. Shirley,
    Errr... I publish all comments.. did u type in the verification code?
    Sometimes I forget to type that when i comment in other's blogs too.

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  9. Blessed Homemaker,
    Sorry, I can't understand what u wrote.
    My written Chinese is very limited, especially with the old format. Therefore I can't really understand what u wrote.

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  10. Wendy, I don't read traditional chinese too :P A friend shared this with me so I'm also sharing with you, thinking you may understand ;-)

    Basically, it's one enzyme from the red carrot that will destroy the vitamin C in the other.

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