A Quick Dinner Macaroni in Vegetable Soup
Soup Name:
Macaroni in a quick boil vegetable soup (a quickie dinner)
Traditional Chinese Name:
雜菜湯 (zá cài tāng)
This soup is warming in nature and sweet to taste.
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This is one of our families’ favourite macaroni meals – ever! It actually started as a grandma recipe and we’ve been enjoying it since I was a child and since my children were little kids. So this recipe has a lot of fond memories. There are also a few variations of this, such as adding sliced ham, or bacon, or eggs on top. Very similar to the HK-styled macaroni in soup that you would find in HK cafes!
What’s involved?
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 45 mins
Serves: 6 bowls of macaroni and soup
Ingredients
- 2 fresh carrots, cubed
- 3-4 celery stalks, deveined and cubed
- half a cabbage, sliced
- 6 dried red dates
- 10 dried shrimp
- 2 tablespoons of miso paste
- 1 teaspoon of chicken powder
- 3 cups of uncooked macaroni
- 4L of water
Cooking Instructions
- Boil your soup water
- Prepare your vegetables by cutting up the carrots, celery, and cabbage
- When your soup water boils, throw in all the vegeatbles
- Add in the dried ingredients (red dates and dried shrimp)
- Add in miso paste and chicken powder to taste
- Boil on medium high for 30 minutes, covered
- In a separate pot of about 3L of water, boil on high. I add a pinch of salt as salt lowers the boiling point of water.
- When this water boils, throw in the macaroni and continue to boil until desired softness from macaroni
- Serve macaroni and soup and enjoy!
