How to make a cooling lung nourishing and moisturizing lotus root Chinese soup in pork broth
Soup Name: How to make a cooling lung nourishing and moisturizing lotus root Chinese soup in pork broth
Traditional Chinese Name: 川貝雪梨南北杏湯 (chuān bèi xuělí nánběi xìng tāng) – direct translation here is “fritillary bulbs snow pears north and south apricot “.
Nature: Slightly cooling (relieving heat from the lungs and nourishing Yin).
Targets: Lungs
Taste: Sweet
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This is another soup that is recommended for dry, heaty conditions (such as the fires in California). You can read these posts to see how I got here:
The key conditions we are addressing are to:
- Dispel toxicity from the body
- Cool the body
- Support and nourish the lungs, throat, and nasal passage
- Moisten the lungs and body
What’s involved?
Prep time: 15 mins (with blanching)
Cook time: 30 minutes on stove top on medium-high + 2 hours in the thermal pot
Total time: 2 hours 45 mins
Serves: 8 bowls
Ingredients
- 10 pieces of dried snow pears
- 2 pieces of dried Chinese yams
- 2 dried figs (any type will do)
- 1 teaspoon of fritillary bulbs (aka 川貝 chuān bèi)
- 1 tablespoon of dried apricot kernals
- 10 pieces of dried lily bulbs (you can use fresh as well)
- 2 dried shiitake mushrooms (for flavor)
- 2 sections of fresh lotus root
- 1 pound of fresh pork bones (any type will do)
- 1 teaspoon of pea protein (optional and included in the soup pack – this is dried gluten and designed for vegetarians to get more protein)
- 2.5 L of water
- salt, as needed
Prep Instructions
- In a separate pot of cold water, start by blanching your pork bones, bringing them to a boil on high heat. You can watch this video on how to blanch pork bones as reference.
- Once they boil, drain the water, rinse under cool water a few times to remove the debris, fat, and bones and set aside.
- Begin to boil your soup water in a thermal soup pot. I use these to help save time and energy.
- Wash, peel, and remove the ends of the lotus root, cutting off the joints. Cut anyway you’d like as long as large bite-sized potions. Lotus roots don’t soften that much, so will retain their shape and won’t disintegrate into the soup. I will rinse the lotus root in running water again after they are cut as the inner holes may still contain soil (as they grow in these conditions under water).
- Once your soup water boils, add all the ingredients in, including the blanched pork bones.
- Cover and boil on high for 30 minutes. Turn off the heat and put the inner pot into the thermal outer pot and let it sit for at least 2 hours (it will continue to heat and boil inside on its own).
- Before service, reboil for 10 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy!
- Salt as needed.
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