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Slow-boiled soup 老火湯
White pepper pork stomach soup
胡椒豬肚湯wu4 ziu1 zyu1 tou5 tong1
Traditionally eaten to warm and nourish. Best in cold weather. White pepper is hot and pork stomach warm.
Good for traditionally believed to warm a cold stomach and ease winter chill.
- 40 minprep
- 2 h 30 mincook
- 6servings
- One potWinter
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Ingredients
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Method
- Turn the stomach inside out and rub with salt and cornstarch. Rinse; repeat until it no longer feels slimy.
- Blanch the stomach with ginger for 5 minutes, scrape off any fat, then cut in strips.
- Put the pepper in a soup bag.
- Bring the water to a rolling boil. Add everything, boil hard for 20 minutes, then cover and simmer on low for 2 hours.
- Skim off any fat and season with salt just before serving.
Who should go easy
Too heating if you have a sore throat, mouth ulcers or run hot.
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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