Beetroot Vegetables with Pork Ribs Soup
Beetroot Vegetables with Pork Ribs Soup
Soup Name:
Beetroot Vegetables with Pork Ribs Soup
Traditional Chinese Name:
紅菜頭集菜湯 (hóng cài tóu jí cài tāng)
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It’s Chinese New Year’s and what better time to make a blood red soup than this special holiday? The red beet is as red as a vegetable as you can get and mixed with other hearty vegetables, makes for a meal in itself!
Use any type of pork meat and boil it for the red beets to seep out its rich, vibrant red. I forewarned the children that this would be a more “unique” soup, but after one sip, they loved it! It’s also a very neutral soup ideal for the whole family.
What’s involved?
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 2 hours
Total time: 2 hours and 15 minutes
Serves: 6 bowls
Cooking Instructions
- In a small pot, boil some water to blanch your pork ribs
- Blanch the ribs in boiling water for about 5 minutes, drain and set aside (some people rinse the pork ribs with warm water to rinse away the brown foam that usually surfaces when blanching pork)
- In your soup pot, start boiling the water
- Prepare all your vegetables
- When the water boils, add all the vegetables and the blanched pork and longans together
- Boil on high for 30 minutes and reduce to a medium simmer for another 1.5 hours (or use a thermal pot)
- Serve and enjoy!