Du Zhong black bean soup
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Serves: 1
 
Ingredients
  • 1.5L of water
  • du zhong (杜仲) (about palm size)
  • jin mao gou ji (金毛狗脊) (2pcs)
  • huai niu xi (淮牛膝) (3 pcs)
  • ba ji tian (巴戟天 ) (3 pcs)
  • black beans (a big handful)
  • dried red dates (紅棗) (6)
  • dried black dates (3)
  • a handful of wolfberries (枸杞子)
  • pork rib/loin (optional) - if cooking it as a soup, then add the pork rib/loin; otherwise if drinking it as a drink, you can omit this
Instructions
  1. Rinse the ingredients.
  2. Put the pork into a small pot of water and wait for the water to boil. Once the water boils, you can remove the pork. This is to cleanse the pork of the bloody taste and the dirt.
  3. Fry the black beans with a pinch of salt till the beans are completely dry.
  4. Place all the ingredients into a pot of water (with the exception of the wolfberries) and put to boil on high heat.
  5. Once the soup boils, turn the fire down to low and simmer for 2hours.
  6. minutes before turning off the flame, put the wolfberries in.
Notes
Suitable to be drunk every day if necessary.
Recipe by at http://simplymommie.com/2009/12/du-zhong-black-bean-soup.html