This soup is excellent for assisting in coughs and removing phelgm. It also aids in providing moisture (with the chestnuts) to the body and lungs for those dry autumn and winter months. It is considered a pretty sweet soup and ideal for all ages.
Pre-marinate the pork overnight with the salt (although this step is not necessary)
Boil your soup water
Blanch pork shank in a separate pot of boiling water for 7-10 minutes until you see some brown foam come to the top. This step will also rinse the salt from the pork bones.
In another separate pot, boil chestnuts for 2-3 minutes. Remove from water and peel while still hot (removing the outer and inner skin). You can also use prepackaged deshelled chestnuts, but I find they aren’t as sweet or tasty!
Start with a quarter of the dried luo han guo and rinse in warm water. I will smash the whole dried fruit with the flat side of a butcher’s knife and use only the outer shell and not the insides.
Wash and soak apricot kernals and tangerine peel in warm water
When the water boils, add all the ingredients together except the watercress (this should be added last because it will stay relatively crunchy before consumption)
Boil on high for thirty minutes and reduce to a simmer for another 1.5 hours (or use a thermal pot)
When almost ready to drink, re-boil and add in watercress. Boil on high for 10 minutes (or until desired softness of watercress)
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A very popular vegetable used to remove excess heatiness in the body. It’s a versitile plant with uses in a variety of cultures. The one thing that I hate about this plant is the high level of bugs you can find in them. When boiled in soup, the bugs usually float to the top of the soup – which makes it easy for extraction, but even then, as a kid, it was the grossest thing to see in your soup. As a mother now, I just wave it off and think “more nutrients” but caution prevails because many of the bugs are actually parasites.
What is this?
A fast-growing aquatic plant that is part of the cabbage family
It can be eaten cooked or raw and is often found in salads, sandwiches and soups
The plant is cultivated before flower buds appear or else the leaves become too rank in flavour for consumption
Watercress is not normally found in dried form and therefore can only be stored for a short period of time – ideally, it is consumed fresh
This plant is available all year round
How do I prepare it?
Wash in cold salted water at least twice to remove potential pesticides and parasites
Where can I buy this?
You are able to purchase fresh watercress from most supermarkets
It is a highly perishable food and needs to be consumed within a few days of purchase
What is the cost?
Watercress is very affordable and costs around $1.00 – $2.00 per bundle
Any benefits?
Watercress is high in iron, calcium, folic acid, and Vitamins A & C
When boiled in soup, it assists in removing heatiness and relieves coughs
Western studies have found that watercress may reduce the risk of cancer
Any precautions?
Watercress tends to grow in areas of high animal waste and is good breeding grounds for parasites and bacteria, therefore it is highly recommended to thoroughly wash watercress before consumption
Be sure to add watercress to BOILING water, else it will make the watercress bitter
Flowering watercress is also bitter, so buy young and flowerless watercress to reduce the chance of bitterness in the soup