Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lotus root soup with peanuts. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Lotus root soup can be boiled any time of the year but this slow-cooked Chinese soup is commonly served during Chinese New Year for its auspicious significance. Lotus roots signify abundance while peanuts signify wealth. Put together, this soup literally means prosperity in abundance every year.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lotus root soup with peanuts using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts:
- Make ready 1/2 cup raw peanuts (optional)
- Prepare chicken/pork ribs
- Make ready 1 handful dried goji (optional)
- Take 10 dried red dates
- Get dried cuttlefish (optional)
- Get 1 long lotus root (sliced into thin)
- Take to taste salt
Lotus Root and Peanut Soup is one of my favorite simmered soups. Peanuts and lotus root pair well together for this soup. When boiling soups, I use fatter and rounder peanuts but I prefer smaller peanuts in stir-fried dishes and nasi lemak (a fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk and. Lotus root with peanuts is one of my favourite Chinese soups.
Steps to make Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts:
- In a small bowl, add peanuts and hot boiling water in. Soak them for 30 mins.
- Do the same for dried goji for 15 mins.
- Blanch the pork with hot water.
- Add water to the large pot and add all the ingredients on high heat.
- Once the water boiling, turn it to low heat and cook for an hour.
- Add salt to taste.
- Serve
Lotus root and peanuts is a great pairing in a Chinese soup, and personally I won't cook this dish if I ran out of peanuts. I love the texture of slightly crunchy peanuts so if you like softer ones, you will need to simmer the soup for a bit longer. Lotus root has a sweet flowery aroma and a refreshing taste that perfectly paired with pork and peanuts. The lotus root will turn soft after stewing, starchy Soft peanuts are preferred for this soup. Additional tips for the lotus root with pork ribs soup.
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