Chinese Sweet Corn Pork Rib Soup

Ingredients 

1 Sweet Corn, cleaned and divided into 5 sections
200g Soup Bone

4 Strips "Yuk Chuk"
5 Dried Scallops

6 Red Dates

2 tbsp Goji

4 Rice Bowl of Water

Methods
1. Wash and soak white fungus until soft, drain.
2. Cut pear into chunks.
3. Blanch pork ribs in hot water before put in with other ingredients.
4. Add all ingredients in a pot an d boil for at least 2 hours.

Seaweed Egg Drop Soup

When you are superb busy and running out of time but do not want to eat out or tapao, this soup is quite handy. All you need is 20-30 minutes. Make Ikan Bilis broth at the minimum of 20 minutes will do but I did cook it for 30 minutes instead to get the flavour of the Ikan Bilis by max haha.

This is a freestyle soup and you may add and minus the ingredients upon your likings.

Happy cooking!!

Ingredients 

2 Cup Seaweed 

1 Cup Ikan Bilis

1 Egg

1 small shallot

3 Rice Bowl of Water

Methods

1.Wash the Ikan Bilis, slice onion and start cooking with water for 30minutes.

2.Remove the Ikan Bilis (out them in a bag for easier removal, I do)

3.Chopped seaweed in to pieces, approximately 4 x 4cm.

4.When you ready to serve the soup, start reboiling the soup, once boiling add in seaweed and beat in egg and meanwhile stir quickly with chopstick to make egg drop.

5.Add salt to taste.    

Chinese Pear White Fungus (雪耳) Soup

The weather is hot and damp lately and it's a great idea to refresh and rejuvenate our body with a bowl of soup or herbal tea is good. Today I will cook "Pear White Fungus Soup" for my kiddos. White Fungus always goes well with Pear, and these ingredients are neutral which you may add sugar or salt to your favour. If you prefer salty then you may add in pork ribs as broth and if you prefer sweet soup (tong sui style) you may add in rock sugar and skip the ribs.

Here are some of the benefits of white fungus that you may wanted to know.

What are its health benefits?

• Snow fungus helps to tonify the spleen and increases appetite, also nourishes yin and lungs, it may help enhance immune system in cancer patients.
• Snow fungus helps to nourish the body, lungs and stomach, to manage consumptive cough, bloody sputum, helps with physical weakness after recovery from illness, shortness of breath, and fatigue.

Ingredients 

1 Pear 
1 Medium White Fungus (雪耳)

200g Soup Bone

4 Strips "Yuk Chuk"

6 Red Dates

2 tbsp Goji

4 Rice Bowl of Water

Methods
1. Wash and soak white fungus until soft, drain.
2. Cut pear into chunks.
3. Blanch pork ribs in hot water before put in with other ingredients.
4. Add all ingredients in a pot an d boil for at least 2 hours.

Tofu and Pickle Vegetables Soup

At least 2 hours of boiling.

I will try to cook soup as often as possible for my family. My husband favour  this "tofu pickle soup / tau foo ham Choy tong" very much. He loves the combinations of tofu and ham choy, I used to cook with Roasted Pork Rib but today I couldn't get roasted pork rib so Inreplaced with pork bones instead which equally tasty.

I blanch the pork ribs first before putting in all ingredients in the pot. Simple steps but it's result is awesome. 

This soup is good to expel and reduce heatiness from our body like what Chinese believes. 

Ingredients 

1 Packet of Pickle Vegetables (ham Choy)

1 Box White Tofu

350g Soup Bone

1 Big Ripe Tomato 

1 Slice "Kai Choy"

1 Slice Dried Octopus 

6 Rice Bowl of Water

Lentil Cauliflower Millet Soup

Lentil, cauliflower and millet have been the staple food in my kitchen. Whenever the kids asked for this comfort food, I can straight away made it for them. Thus is very simple, I always mix and match these ingredients with pumpkin, potato or  spinach if you like.

Both Os finished fast today. Nothing could be more rewarding than seeing 2 empty bowls of soup.

I normally soaked beans before cooking them just to cut down the cooking time. And it worked! And Mcvite's digestive biscuit made a great pairing as well. Kids dip the biscuit in the soup or cracked it and sprinkle right on the surface. Yummy!

Ingredients

2 cups Lentils - wash and soak with water for 15min

1 cup Millets

11/2 cup Cauliflowers 

2 cloves of garlic - crashed 

4 cups Water

Salt to taste 

Dried Thyme

Methods

1. Drain lentil, millet  & cauliflower then send aside.

2. Use a deep saucepan, preheat with oil. Fry chopped garlic till aromatic add in lentil, millet and cauliflower stir fried till you smell the aromas. Add water. When boiling turn the flame to low, keep cooking for 30minutes. Please make sure the water level is not dried up. If the water is at the same level as the solid then u may off the fire of the stove. Let it cool down then transfer to the good processor and blend till smooth.

3. Transfer back to saucepan and turn on low flame add salt & herbs to taste.

Drunken Tiger Prawns

Drunken Tiger Prawns, the name speaks for itself. Prawns and Wine! I cooked this dish when I had my in-laws over for dinner. Response was good, and you may wanted to try this simple yet delicious dish at home. Rule of thumb, fresh tiger prawns. It tastes like one of those dish you had in a restaurant but now you could do it at home just a few simple steps.

5 large Tiger Prawns, clean and halves.

Scallions & Chinese Parsley

Red Dates & Wolfberries

Ginger, this is the key condiment. Must have.

Clean the Ginger by scrapping off the skin.

Cut ginger in slices

 

Rive Wine, I used 1 cup of Rice Wine with 4 Cups of Chicken Stock.
Determine the quantity of wine according to the amount of chicken stock used.

Cut Scallion into elongated shape

Cut Chinese Parsley

Pre fried the prawns in batches, set aside.

Use the remaining oil, brown garlic & ginger.

Add in prawns, toss well.

Pour in 4 cups of chicken stock, add red dates, scallions, parsley & rice wine and bring to boil. Add salt to taste.

Delicious Drunken Tiger Prawns is done. Eat with fragrant rice.

Hearty Homemade ABC Soup

In Chinese's culture soup is like the soul of all food. You might skip lunch and dinner but with a bowl of hot nice home-made soup, you just feel rejuvenated! My dad cook the nicest soup I ever tasted. His soups are so tasty and nutrient, believe me even my picky daughter loves it.

It's very simple, all that matters are the ingredients. He insisted of using pork ribs or pork tail because these are the part of the pig that has less fat (remember it's less fat not none fat). He added some fried scallops too for  the extra sweetness in the soup.

Like me, I wouldn't have the time to look after the cooking progress of the soup, so I cook it using a slow cooker. Just chucked everything in, and you can enjoy a hearty soup after 4 hours of double boiling or alternatively, just cook up using a kitchen gas stove and that's only takes 2 hours.

Homemade ABC Soup with dried scallops.