Egg noodles soup

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Angeline

I cooked egg noodles soup for my dinner yesterday (it was really a last minute decision as my hubby decided that he wanted to go wash his car and asked me to have dinner first). I was lazy to go downstairs to buy food so I just scavenged around in my fridge and found some simple but nutritious ingredients to make my dinner. Since it was so yummy, I reserved some for Alicia. It’s really simple and easy, just like instant noodles – but without the MSG! ๐Ÿ™‚

Ingredients:

  • Stock – this is a MUST to make the noodles tasty!
  • egg noodles
  • cauliflower (or other veggies of your choice. I used this coz Alicia usually has broccoli for lunch and cauliflower for dinner so I always have these two veggies in my fridge)
  • egg
  • fresh shitake mushrooms
  • a pre-packed portion of chicken fillet (optional since there’s already egg. Feel free to interchange the two sources of protein)

Method:

  1. Soak the egg noodles in water for awhile to soften slightly.
  2. Rinse the shitake mushrooms, remove the stalk and slice them.
  3. Wash the cauliflower and remove any brown spots.
  4. Bake the pre-packed portion of chicken fillet and cut/shred into small pieces after it is cooked.
  5. Set the stock to boil in a saucepan.
  6. Once the stock boils, add in the cauliflower and egg noodles.
  7. Once the noodles have softened (you can pick a little strand to try if it’s soft enough for the toddler), add in the shitake mushrooms.
  8. Crack the egg and add it to the saucepan. I like to have my egg in small pieces when I eat noodle soup so I will stir quickly (but not too hard in case the yolk disappears into the soup totally).
  9. Add the baked chicken pieces/shreds in and voila! the nutritious meal’s ready. ๐Ÿ™‚

Add a small amt of salt/sauce if preferred.

As my darling’s not really a soupy girl (yet), I gave her the noodles without the soup. Although she didn’t drink the soup, the soup’s a crucial ingredient as it makes the noodles tasty! And most importantly, in her bout of fussiness about food recently, she ate this dish!

It’s really a very convenient dish to make since it’s something that the whole family can eat for lunch/dinner so there’s no need for additional work! Hurray! ๐Ÿ™‚

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Du Zhong black bean soup

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Angeline

du zhong black bean soup

My hubby’s been having backache for a few weeks now and so he’s been visiting the chinese sinseh more often and eating the prescribed chinese medicine, either in powder form or herbs to be brewed (by me, of course). When he’s not taking the Chinese medicine, I’d brew this herbal tonic soup for him as the ingredients are supposed to help ่กฅ and heal his backache problem.

Du Zhong is known to help ease backache and commonly brewed in soup as well during the confinement month after delivering baby.

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Du Zhong black bean soup
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Serves: 1
 
Ingredients
  • 1.5L of water
  • du zhong (ๆœไปฒ) (about palm size)
  • jin mao gou ji (้‡‘ๆฏ›็‹—่„Š) (2pcs)
  • huai niu xi (ๆทฎ็‰›่†) (3 pcs)
  • ba ji tian (ๅทดๆˆŸๅคฉ ) (3 pcs)
  • black beans (a big handful)
  • dried red dates (็ด…ๆฃ—) (6)
  • dried black dates (3)
  • a handful of wolfberries (ๆžธๆžๅญ)
  • 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.

I try to cook this either as a soup or drink for my hubby on alternate days whenever the backache is really bad. He always says that it makes him feel much better the next day!

Click the link for the full list of soup recipes (with thumbnails).

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