Soup : Lotus Roots
One of my daily must have is soup.
Qi expects it to go with her meal and she nearly always have a bowl of soup every day. In fact, “soup” is one of the first few word in her vocabulary!
Since I have my slow cooker a few years ago, it has been one of the most used piece of equipment in my kitchen. In my household, my sister in law brew soup daily for her family too and it was from her that I learn how easy it was to make delicious and nutritious soup. Since the first tong kwei soup that she taught me, I’ve moved on to brewing other kind of soups; herbal, tonic and ordinary soup with nutritious ingredients.
In fact, my soup making learning process could be clearly described by hubby’s verdict which started from “What’s this?” (first experiment) to “Weird taste” (wild experiment) to “Too much ingredient” (over-experiment) to his most welcomed verdict of “Very nice soup“.
One of my own favorite soup is the lotus roots soup.
I learn this soup from my mother in law and of course, whenever we go to places where tonic soup is served, this is one of the common ones too.
Lotus roots are available in most supermarket although at some places, they didn’t bother to scrape the excess mud off the roots that it can look very dirty.
If you have never tried this soup you really should! It’s tasty, nutritious and if you’re Muslim, it goes well with chicken too.
gee, I don’t remember having lotus soup when I was young, not that I’m old now, mind you, but that is why I have never cook lotus soup, but I might try now from with the ingredients I saw from the tasty picture !! thanks. sister
JJ : Wahh! Finally a message from Edmonton! Well, mother doesn’t cook it often but when I first tried it, I fell in love with it and since it’s so easy to make - I picked it up instantly!