Chayotes, Corn with Mushrooms in Pork Broth
Soup Name:
Chayotes, Corn with Mushrooms in Pork Broth
Chinese Name: 合掌瓜玉米茶樹菇豬骨湯 (hup jeung gwa yù mǐ cha shu gu zhū gǔ tāng)
This soup is neutral in nature and sweet to taste.
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A very simple, healthy and slightly sweet soup to make that is ideal for all seasons and weather. The ingredients are all very neutral, although the mushrooms aren’t the easiest ingredients to find, but you’re welcome to used the dried version instead or other mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms (or Chinese mushrooms) or shimeji mushrooms.

This soup is relatively neutral because of the pork bones, corn, and mushrooms. The chayotes are slightly cooling, but in general, aren’t extremely cooling (like winter melon or other melons).
You can learn more about cooling and warming ingredients in Chinese soups to help you design the soup you need for your personal conditions and balance, and weather!
Prep time: 30 mins
Cook time: 2 hours and 30 mins
Total time: 3 hour
Serves: 8 bowls
- 1 pound of fresh pork bones
- 1 bunch of fresh mushrooms (Agrocybe Aegerita)
- 3-4 fresh chayotes
- 2-3 fresh corn
- 3 L of water
- 1 teaspoon of salt (to marinate the pork)
- Pre-marinate the pork bones overnight with the salt (although this step is not necessary)
- Boil your soup water
- Blanch pork bones in a separate pot of boiling water
- Wash and soak mushrooms
- Wash, cut and cube chayotes and corn
- When the water boils, add all the ingredients together
- Boil on high for thirty minutes, reduce to a simmer boil for another 2 hours
- Serve!
- This soup is extremely easy to make and tasty
- It is neutral, so the whole family can enjoy (including children)
- Ideal for strengthening the stomach, spleen, and kidney
- The mushrooms, chayote, and corn also make for great additions to the meal
- This soup is great source of fiber
- You can use this with chicken as well (as the protein)
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I found your recipe through Blessed Homemaker and I loved it. Although I did not use Agrocybe Aegerita, I used a mushroom with similar chinese name, that looked like shitake.
Can I replace these mushrooms with shiitake?
Dear Fi, yes absolutely! Although I would leave it to the end and probably in the last 30 minutes of consumption. Chinese mushrooms take longer to cook and need quite some time to allow the flavours to come out. Lisa