[ Prep Time: 30 min | Cooking Time: 2 hr | Serving: 4 ]
This is a Chinese style soup using abalone and cordyceps flower as main ingredients. It is very nutritious, delicious and easy to make!
Ingredients
8 pcs Fresh Abalones
400 g Chicken Feets
320 g Pork Spines
20 g Dried Cordyceps Flowers
40 g Dried Shiitake Mushrooms
30 g Dehydrated Chinese Yams
8 g Dried Goji Berries
1½ tsp Salt
3 L Water
Method
1. Rinse the mushrooms (40 g), soak in hot water for 30 min, and cut into strips.
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2. Rinse the dehydrated yams (30 g), dried cordyceps flowers (20 g) and goji berries (8 g), soak in hot water for 15 min, drain and set aside.
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3. Use a brush to brush off the dirt of fresh abalones (8 pcs).
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4. Blanch the pork spines (320 g) and chicken feet (400 g) for 5 min.
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5. Blanch the fresh abalones (8 pcs) for 1 min.
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6. Rinse the pork spines and chicken feet, drain and set aside.
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7. Remove the shell and viscera of the fresh abalones, rinse and cut the cross pattern on the abalones.
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8. Boil water (3 L), then add pork spine, chicken feet, fresh abalone, winter mushrooms, yams, cordyceps flower and goji barries, and simmer over medium heat for 2 hr.
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9. Add salt (1½ tsp), mix well to serve.
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