Chinese is well known for using soup to rejuvenate body or even "heal" the body. Chinese believes soup contains all the essence of the ingredients, and it is easily digested and absorbed by our bodies. Thus, soup has played major role in Chinese daily meals or daily life.
Here, I would like to introduce a common, healthy, popular and easy to cook ABC soup recipe. It tastes so good even the kids will like it. And it only takes less than 20 minutes to prepare
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Ingredients:
- ½ yellow onion
- 2 yellow potatoes
- 1 tomato
- 1 carrot (big one) or 6-7 baby carrots
- 3 chicken drumsticks or thighs
- 5-6 whole white pepper, crushed
- 5 cups water
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (or according to taste)
Method:
- Cut the yellow onion, potatoes, and carrots into small chunks
- Cut the tomato into 8 pieces
- Wash the chicken drumsticks or thighs and set aside. De-skin the chicken if you do not want the fat
- Boil 4 cups of water in a pot. Add in the chicken, crushed white pepper, onion, tomatoes, potatoes and carrot into the pot
- Cover and boil/simmer over medium heat for 30 minutes
- Add in salt to taste
This soup contains different nutrition that we need daily. And for kids who have hard time taking vegetables, this will be one good dish for them. I cook this almost every week and my 2 year old likes it a lot.
If you like my recipe, you can get more Chinese food recipes from Chinese Recipe Online site, which consists of other soup recipes, seafood recipes, and etc.
A Chinese Healthy and Delicious Soup Recipe - ABC Soup Recipe