Introduction:

This is one of my favourite soups.  It’s really called the 5-orange ingredient fish soup because all you need are 5 ingredients (for which most of them are orange-coloured)- but for the sake of making it sound nice, I’ve renamed it.  This soup is YUMMY.  It is ideal for children, it’s packed with beta-carotenes and it’s all 100% natural ingredients.  The longer you boil it (or the smaller you make the pumpkin pieces), the thicker the soup.  I like my pumpkin pieces soft and intact, so I keep the pumpkin pieces very large.

What Ingredients are required?

2 fresh Grass Carp fish tails
1 medium-sized fresh japanese pumpkin
4 tomatoes
3 large carrots
1 large fresh onion
2 slices of fresh ginger
2-3 litres of water
1 tsp of salt to marinate your fish
1 tsp of oil to fry your fish

 Any benefits?

• Excellent low calorie soup with high dietary fiber.
• It is mild enough for children and extremely easy to make.
• High beta-carotene content

Any precautions?

• Use a soup bag to avoid disintegration of fish and bones – which can be potentially dangerous to children

1. After the fish is cleaned, wipe the fish with paper towels or a cloth to remove excess water
2. Cover the fish with a small amount of salt (inside and out)
3. Let it sit for an hour and then drain any water
4. Peel and cut all the vegetables
5. Start boiling your soup water
6. In a pan, add oil and fry the ginger with the fish on low-medium heat (until the fish is completely cooked and the skin is a slightly browned)
7. Put the fish into a soup bag and add to water
8. Add all ingredients together into the boiling water
9. Boil for 30 minutes on high heat, reduce to summer for another 2-3 hours (or use internal cooker)
10. Serve!