[quick meal]
Soup ABC special


serves 2

Ingredients:

2 carrots - sliced thinly
1 tomato - cut in half
1 garlic - cut in halves
2 onions - peeled not chopped
200gm chicken or pork or beef
2 teaspoon olive oil
pinch of salt


Boil water, add in finely sliced carrots and meat. 5 minutes later add onions and salt. boil for another 5 minutes, add in tomato and olive oil and garlic. add a pinch of salt , stir for another 5 minutes.
serve with rice.

nutrition from carrots are high. they should be thinly sliced for express serving as they would soften faster. if chunks are used, , extend boiling period. a well balanced diet with plenty of iron, vitamins and protein. meat is added to extra flavoring. eating or not depends on user.





[slow preparation]
Mini fat *** cheong - buddha jump over wall

serves 4


4 abalones
1 whole chicken - cleaned and with the butt and wing removed. (black chicken use 2)
150gm dried scallops
30gm wolfberries
10gm ginseng root
6 chinese mushrooms or fresh or wild mushrooms - do not use button mushrooms
10gm yuk chuk herbs
50gms cuttlefish - fresh not dried
1 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoon salt
4 medium size prawns - shell removed - must be fresh prawns. best to use live prawns.
2 tomatoes - skin removed
15gm dried dates
1 garlic - chopped super finely or blended
a little bit of thyme leaves


boil pot of water with chicken and garlic and yuk chuk.
from 1 full pot to 3/4 pot of water, add in wolfberries to soften, add in 1 teaspoon salt, and tomatoes.
from 3/4 pot of water to 1/2 pot of water, add scallops and mushrooms and dates.
boil for another 2 hours under slow fire and add 3 cups of water stired with sugar and thyme leaves and garlic. add abalones.
when mushrooms are soft , remove tomatoes.
add cuttlefish and 1 more teaspoon of salt.
boil for another 15 minutes on slow fire. add in ginseng roots.
stir and check mushrooms always. when extremely soft, add in cuttlefish and set to medium heat for 10 minutes.
by now the wolfberries would be destroyes with seeds all over the place. this is good as its broken down intothe water with its full flavor. the dates should also be partially destroyed by now. all its flavorings have entered the water.
finally add in ginseng root and prawn and boil for another 10 minutes under slow fire.

done !

remember - dates and wolfberries are natural sweeteners. sugar and thyme leaves + garlic makes the water thicken a little bit more.
chicken is not nutritious as it is already flowing inthe soup. the mushrooms take longer time to soften than the abalone. it will not disintegrate. dried scallops are used as flavoring and so is cuttlefish. prawn is always added last as it cooks really fast and the taste is strong that is why u use fresh or live prawns only.
garlic in this case has no flavor but it gives off a fragrant aroma when mixed with all these.

nutrition fact : alot is contained. remember to watch the heat. never let it boil for too long, always use medium to medium high heat . slow heat is for the final moments upon serving.

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