Ingredients:
Mushrooms you like.
Tofu
Miso 2 tsp
Salt
Dried Kelp (Seaweed)
1. Add enough water in the pot. Put in dried kelp. Turn on the stove.
2. When the water boiling, put in tofu chunk and mushrooms. Cook for around 10 mins.
3. Add in miso, and quickly stir evenly. When water starts boiling again, turn off the stove.
Ingredients:
Butter 20g
Flour 3 tsp
Frozen corn kernels (as much as you like)
Water
Cream 3 tsp
Onion bits
Salt
Black pepper
1. Heat butter in the pan. When it’s melted, add in flour. Quick cream flour with butter.
2. Add in onion and corn kernels. Stir fry a bit. Pour in water covers all ingredients. Simmer for around 10 mins. (I also add in several shrimps.)
3. Add in cream and stir well. Season with salt and black pepper.
It’s a ideal bread dip.
For the bread recipe:
https://chewbaccascook.wordpress.com/2016/10/18/easy-bread-no-knead/
It’s an easy soup to make.
Ingredients:
Chicken ( I used 2 big chicken wingsticks)
Shiitake
Bamboo shoot ( cut into medium pieces)
Carrot ( chop into medium pieces)
Snow pea ( put in boiling water for 1 min. Take out and drain)
Oil
Light soy sauce
Salt
Hot water
1. Heat a little oil in the pot. Put in chicken. Stir fry a bit till the color turns a bit golden.
2. Add in carrot and bamboo shoot with a little light soy sauce. Stir fry a little.
3. Pour in hot water covers all ingredients. If you have soup-stock, that’ll be better. Add in several shiitakes. Cover the pot with lid.
4. When all ingredients are done, add in snow peas. Then simmer for another 4 or 5 mins. Spread some salt.
1. Cook lobster in the boiling water. When it’s done, take out the lobster meat.
2. Prepare vegetable part. I used 1 medium potato, 1 medium onion, 1 medium carrot, 2 small tomatoes, 2 pieces of celery. Chop them into small pieces.
3. Heat some oil in the pan. Put in onion first. Then add all the rest vegetables in. Stir fry a bit. Add in a little salt and black pepper. Pour in enough water covers all ingredients ( I used the water cooked lobster). Cover the pan with lid.
4. When all the vegetables get softened, take them out and put in blender. Blend them well till smooth.
5. Pour vegetable smoothie back into pan. Heat it with low heat. I added some water (cooked vegetable) so that it won’t be very condensed.
6. Add in 2 tsp light cream. Keep stirring till it boils again. Mix in a little herbs you like and a little salt if it tastes plain.
7. Put lobster meat bits in the soup plate with some cheese. Pour soup into plate.
I also put the lobster head in the plate for decoration. My husband said it looks like a swimming lobster. 🙂
When my husband feels sick, I cook him chicken soup. Actually, every time I make chicken soup, it’s possibly to leave some over. So I keep the left soup in a jar and stored in fridge. Stored chicken soup can be used to cook. And the easiest one is to cook noodles.
This is the fresh soup not the stored one.
It’s easy to make chicken soup.
Put chicken in a deep pot. Add in enough water and several ginger slices. Turn to high heat at first. When the soup boiled, turn to low height. If you want really good chicken soup, you’d better cook it for at least one hour. The soup will taste really great. I cooked it for about one hour and a half. And add some salt to it, or it will be plain. I also added several shiitake, because I really like it.
You can cook noodle when chicken soup is almost done. Just cook noodle with water. When noodle is cooked. Take it out and drain. After drained, put noodle in a bowl.
Scoop some chicken soup and add to noodle in the bowl. If you like, you can add some green vegetables and chopped spring onion.
My husband are it all, even he’s sick. It’s very nutritious.
Vegetables I used includes tomato, shiitake, carrot and spinach.
1. Remove peel of tomato. Chop tomato and carrot into small pieces.
2. Heat a very little oil in the pan. Put tomato pieces in. Stir fry a bit.
3. Add in enough water. Put carrot and shiitake in.
4. Simmer till carrot softens. Because I cooked other dishes at the same time, so I let the soup simmer for about 30 mins.
5. Finally, add in spinach. Add some salt and a little sugar.
Chicken leg and several red dates in a pot. Pour in enough water that higher than ingredients. Turn to medium heat and cook for around 1 hour and a half. The soup will become a little white in color. Before turn off the stove, add a little salt. If you like, you can also add some wolf berries.
In Chinese medicine, red date is good for skin and health. So it’s ideal for women to have.
This soup is very easy. Just put chicken leg in a pot, add in enough water. At first, use medium heat. After water gets boiled, turn to low heat. Cook for half an hour. Then add in shiitake and wolf berries. Cook for at least another half an hour. Add in salt and it’s done.
It actually took me one hour and a half to make this soup. Just the longer you cook it, the better it will taste.
1. Cut potato and onion into small pieces. (Here I used two potatoes and one onion.)
2. Heat the oil in the pan. Put in the bacon bits. When the bacon bits get a little burnt, take them out.
3. Stir fry onion first. Then the potato pieces.
4. Add in enough water that covers potato pieces. Boil them till potato gets soft.
5. Use blender to smash potatoes.
6. Put smashed potato back into the pan. Add a little water or the soup will get burnt easily. Also add in light cream, salt and black pepper powder. Keep stirring till all the things mix well.
Ladle the soup out into bowl, and add in the bacon bits.
It’s a traditional soup in China. When I was little, my mom always cooked me this soup, especially in cold weather or when I was sick.
It also has an interesting name. Ge Da in Chinese means a lump, a knot, even means pimple on face. But here it means the flour in the soup. Because the flour will become many small lumps.
There are many kinds of ge da soup, and there are also ge da soup restaurants in China. Tomato and egg ge da soup is probably the most common one.
1. Prepare a half bowl of flour.
2. Add a little water in the flour.
3. Stir flour with a chopstick very quickly till flour lumps are shaped.
4. Heat a little oil in the pan. Put in tomato pieces. ( I used 2 large tomatoes, peeled off and chopped into small pieces).
5. Stir fry tomato a little, then add in 2 bowls of water. Cover the pan with lid.
6. When water boiled and tomato soup becomes a little condensed, add in all the flour lumps ( flour ge da). Stir with chopsticks, in case they stick together.
7. When the flour lumps are cooked. Beat an egg in a bowl, stir evenly. Then pour egg into the pan, while pouring, you should also keep stirring with chopsticks.
8. Add in spring onion pieces and salt.
If you like, you can also add a little sesame oil to your soup.
The flour ge da ( lump) tastes very chewy. When I was little, I liked finding ge da in the soup. It’s very interesting to me.
Chinese people do love tomato and egg. We make them into soup and dish. We also make them go well with rice and noodles.
If you notice the Olympic Games, you will find even Chinese athletes wear red and yellow. Chinese netizens call that tomato and egg color. 🙂
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