Old Cucumber Soup
Old Cucumber Soup is a delicious and healthy clear soup which is also very easy to prepare. Good for those heaty days. Wolfberry fruits and red dates have their own medicinal benefits, so don't worry about overconsuming. See below for the write up.
INGREDIENTS:
300g of minced chicken
1 medium size old cucumber
4 red dates (hong zao) -can easily get from NTUC or sinsei shop
A handful of wolfberries (goji) - can easily get from NTUC or sinsei shop
Chicken cube stock
Soy sauce
Sesame oil
Pepper
Soy sauce
Sesame oil
Pepper
DIRECTIONS:
- Wash the skin of the old cucumber thoroughly and cut into slices.
- Dig the seeds out with a tablespoon, leaving a hole in all slices.
- Soak the wolfberries and red dates in hot water for 5 minutes.
- Marinate the minced chicken with soy sauce, pepper and sesame oil.
- Fill the cucumber with minced chicken.
- Put in the cucumber in a pot of boiling water, slowly making sure the filling doesn’t drop out.
- Add in the chicken cube stock and let it boil for a further 5 minutes.
- Add in the wolfberries and red dates and boil another 5 minutes before switching off the fire.
Wolfberry fruits are used in many herbal formulas to maintain overall health when suffering from chronic conditions, such as weariness of the loins and legs, dizziness and ringing in the ear, visual degeneration, headaches, insomnia, chronic liver diseases, diabetes, tuberculosis, and hypertension.
Red dates are sweet, neutral, tonifies the spleen, benefits the stomach, nourishes nutritive qi moistens dryness, calms the spirit and harmonizes the harsh characteristics of other herbs.
Wolfberry fruits are used in many herbal formulas to maintain overall health when suffering from chronic conditions, such as weariness of the loins and legs, dizziness and ringing in the ear, visual degeneration, headaches, insomnia, chronic liver diseases, diabetes, tuberculosis, and hypertension.
Red dates are sweet, neutral, tonifies the spleen, benefits the stomach, nourishes nutritive qi moistens dryness, calms the spirit and harmonizes the harsh characteristics of other herbs.
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