Vegetarian Snow Pear and Corn Soup

Vegetarian Snow Pear and Corn Soup

Vegetarian Snow Pear and Corn Soup

Soup Name:

Vegetarian Snow Pear and Corn Soup

Traditional Chinese Name:

雪梨玉米湯 (xuě lí yù mǐ tāng)

 

This simple, clean and very sweet soup is great for people with sore throats or heaty bodies. You can actually drink it cold or hot and it’s ideal for all seasons. I’ve decided to go meatless because I wanted to drink it cool and it turned out fabulous. Fat free, oil free and made with all natural ingredients, it’s great for kids and adults alike.

Any benefits?

  • Meatless soup is great for vegetarians and is fat and oil free
  • Helps cool the body
  • Great for sore throats
  • Excellent source of Vitamin C
  • Can be drank both cold or hot
What’s involved?
Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 30 mins

Total time: 40 mins

Serves: 8 bowls

Ingredients
  • 4 fresh snow pears, halved and cored
  • 3 fresh carrots, cut into large pieces
  • 2 fresh corn, cut into large pieces
  • 1 fresh onion, quartered
  • 2 L of water
Cooking Instructions
  1. Wash and prepare all the vegetables and snow pears
  2. Boil your soup water
  3. When your soup water boils, throw all the ingredients together
  4. Boil on high heat for 30 minutes and reduce to a medium boil for another 1 hour
  5. Serve and enjoy!

Snow Pears and Apples in Chicken Broth

Soup Name: Snow Pears and Apples in Chicken Broth

Traditional Chinese Name:蘋果雪梨雞湯 (píng guǒ xuě lí jī tāng)

Introduction:

This naturally sweet soup is great in lowering “heatiness” in the body.  It’s not overly cooling, but does help soothe sore throats, sun stroke (& dehydration), and cool down that fiery feeling in your body when you eat too many fried and spicy foods.  It’s great for kids, is super easy to make and the ingredients are readily available.

What ingredients are required?

1 whole fresh chicken, quartered
3-4 fuji apples
3-4 snow pears
2-3 large dried dates
1 tablespoon of  apricot kernals
3 L of water

How do I prepare it?

  1. Prepare chicken (see instructions on the chicken page) and quarter
  2. Begin boiling your soup water
  3. Rinse and soak in warm water the dried dates and apricot kernals for 10 minutes
  4. Blanch the chicken in a separate pot of boiling water
  5. Wash the snow pears and apples, halve and core
  6. Add all the ingredients to boiling water
  7. Boil on high for thirty minutes and reduce to a medium boil for an hour
  8. Serve and enjoy

Any benefits?

  • Snow pears are cooling and help in nourishing the lungs and cooling the heart
  • This soup is ideal for the summer months
  • It helps relieve heatiness and conditions such as sore and dry throats or heated bodies from consumption of fried and spicy foods

Any precautions?

  • Snow pears are mildly “cooling” so people who sensitive to cooling soups should caution
  • The chicken itself is quite fatty, so use an oil scooper to remove the fat and oil
Fresh Snow Pears in Chicken Soup with Snow Fungus

Fresh Snow Pears in Chicken Soup with Snow Fungus

Fresh Snow Pears in Chicken Soup with Snow Fungus

Soup Name:

Fresh Snow Pears in Chicken Soup with Snow Fungus

Chinese Name:

雪梨雪耳雞湯 (xuě lí xuě ěr jī tāng)

This soup is sweet to taste and slightly cooling.

 

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This end of autumn and into winter soup is slightly sweet, slightly cooling and is deliciously simple to make. With only a handful of ingredients, it is an ideal soup for the whole family and will have your kids asking for more. Add more pears to sweeten it, but you can also use the Chicken Herbal Soup base to start as well.

 

Snow pears are sweet and cooling ingredients and targets the stomach and lungs.  These fruits are great for improving yin deficiencies in the body (which include feeling heaty) and can be used in teas and soups.

Pair this with the snow fungus (click here on a video on how to prepare snow fungus) and you have an amazing moisturizing, healing, and cooling soup that is great for soothing the lungs and moisturizing the body during the winter, as well as a great source of collagen.

 

 

What’s involved?

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 1 hour 30 mins

Total time: 1 hour 45 mins

Serves: 6 servings

Ingredients
Cooking Instructions
  1. Rinse and soak dried snow fungus in a bowl of enough water to immerse it in for about an hour (or until soft)
  2. Clean and prepare the chicken
  3. Boil a pot of water to blanch the chicken in and when water boils, add in the chicken and boil for 2-3 minutes
  4. Drain and set aside
  5. Cut the soaked snow fungus into edible portions while discarding the core (which is usually very yellow and hard)
  6. Boil your soup water
  7. Prepare the snow pears by coring and halving (keeping the skin will prevent disintegration)
  8. Add all the ingredients together and boil on high for 30 minutes.  Reduce to a low boil for another hour.
  9. Serve and enjoy!

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Snow pear Chayotes in Pork Broth

Snow pear Chayotes in Pork Broth

Soup Name: Snow Pears, Chayotes and Seabed Coconut in Pork Broth

Traditional Chinese Name: 雪梨合掌瓜湯 (xuě lí hup jeung gwa tāng)

Introduction:
A mildly cooling soup that helps relieve heatiness, assist in cough and is naturally sweet.  It’s great for kids, easy to make and contains all natural ingredients.  You can use chicken meat with this instead of pork bones (or pork shank).  If you can’t get fresh (or frozen) seabed coconut, the dried version is sufficient (although not as sweet, so you can substitute additional snow pears).

What Ingredients are required?

1 pound of fresh pork bones
3 fresh chayotes, quartered and cored
5 fresh seabed coconuts, halved
4 fresh snow pears, halved and cored
1 tablespoon of apricot kernels
2-3 L of water

How do I prepare it?

  1. Boil your soup water
  2. Boil another pot of water to blanch your pork bones (blanch in boiling water for 5 minutes)
  3. Remove pork bones from water and set aside
  4. Rinse in warm water, core both chayotes and snow pears – cut both into large, edible portions
  5. Rinse seabed coconut in warm water and halve
  6. When soup water boils, add pork bones, chayotes, snow pears, seabed coconut and apricot kernals
  7. Boil on high heat for 30 minutes and reduce to a simmer for another hour

Any benefits?

  • Mildly cool and appropriate for children
  • Naturally sweet and nutritious

 

Any precautions?

  • Pork bone soups often do produce quite a big of fat (over pork shank), so be sure to use an oil scooper to remove the fat before serving