Slow-boiled soup 老火湯
Peanut, black-eyed pea and chicken feet soup
花生眉豆雞腳湯faa1 sang1 mei4 dau2 gai1 goek3 tong1
Gentle and balanced. Traditionally fine for most people, any time of year. Peanuts, black-eyed peas and chicken feet are all neutral.
Good for traditionally believed to strengthen tendons and the spleen and drain mild damp.
- 25 minprep
- 3 hcook
- 6servings
- One potAll year
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Ingredients
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- 3¼ quarts3 LWater
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Method
- Soak the peanuts, peas and mushrooms for 1 hour.
- Trim the nails off the chicken feet and halve them.
- Put the meat in cold water, bring to a boil and let it bubble for 3 minutes. Drain and rinse off the scum.
- Bring the water to a rolling boil. Add everything, boil hard for 20 minutes, then cover and simmer on low for 2 hours 30 minutes.
- Skim off any fat and season with salt just before serving.
Who should go easy
Skip if allergic to peanuts. Rich in purines, so go easy with gout.
Traditional Chinese food therapy, not medical advice. Ask your doctor if you are pregnant, on medication or unwell.
Ingredient natures from Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society, "中醫食療——食物種類分析" (Dr Lam To-yee, registered Chinese medicine practitioner, 2022). How we judge a soup’s nature.
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