Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts
Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lotus root soup with peanuts. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Lotus root soup can be boiled any time of the year but this slow-cooked Chinese soup is commonly served during Chinese New Year for its auspicious significance. Lotus roots signify abundance while peanuts signify wealth. Put together, this soup literally means prosperity in abundance every year.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook lotus root soup with peanuts using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts:
  1. Take 1/2 cup raw peanuts (optional)
  2. Prepare chicken/pork ribs
  3. Make ready 1 handful dried goji (optional)
  4. Make ready 10 dried red dates
  5. Make ready dried cuttlefish (optional)
  6. Get 1 long lotus root (sliced into thin)
  7. Take to taste salt

Peanuts and lotus root pair well together for this soup. When boiling soups, I use fatter and rounder peanuts but I prefer smaller peanuts in stir-fried dishes and nasi lemak (a fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk and. Lotus root with peanuts is one of my favourite Chinese soups. Lotus root and peanuts is a great pairing in a Chinese soup, and personally I won't cook this dish if I ran out of peanuts.

Instructions to make Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts:
  1. In a small bowl, add peanuts and hot boiling water in. Soak them for 30 mins.
  2. Do the same for dried goji for 15 mins.
  3. Blanch the pork with hot water.
  4. Add water to the large pot and add all the ingredients on high heat.
  5. Once the water boiling, turn it to low heat and cook for an hour.
  6. Add salt to taste.
  7. Serve

I love the texture of slightly crunchy peanuts so if you like softer ones, you will need to simmer the soup for a bit longer. Humble lotus root soup has been on Chinese dinner tables for hundreds of years. Whenever purchasing or buying lotus root, I always remember the lotus root harvest in my husband's home province-Hubei. Young strong men use pull the lotus root out of the water by hand. Lotus root has a sweet flowery aroma and a refreshing taste that perfectly paired with pork and peanuts.

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