Wonton Soup

Preparation Time: 40 minutes

Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4
Difficulty: Medium

Ingredients:
For the wonton
- 300gr mince meat
- 300gr shelled and deveined prawns
- 2 tbs dried shrimp, rinsed with water
- 3 water chestnuts - (馬蹄 mǎtí)
- 1 tbs oyster sauce
- 2 tbs soy sauce
- 1 tbs Chinese rice wine
- a few drops sesame oil (2-3 drops is enough.. don't be too much)
- 1/2 tsp white pepper
- wonton wrappers, as needed

For the soup
- a handful of ikan bilis, rinsed with water
- 4 bunches of baby bok choy (xiao bai cai), cut into shorter sections
- salt
- 1.5l water

Directions:
1. Finely chop the prawns
2. Rinse the water chestnut under warm water. Peel the skin (like you peel an apple) and finely chop.
3. Fried dried shrimp till it turn crispy



4. Combine the mince meat, prawns, dried shrimp and water chestnuts with oyster sauce, soy sauce, rice wine, sesame oil and white pepper.



Mix it well :)



5. Fill the wonton skins --> check here to know how to wrap it



Me, making the wonton..



Put in a container to keep if you are not going to cook it immediately

6. In a pot, bring 1l water to boil. Add washed ikan bilis and boil for 10 mnts
7. Using a slotted ladle, remove ikan bilis.



8. In another pot of 500ml water, bring water to boil. Add wontons.
9. When the wonton cooked (until they rise to the top and the filling is cooked through), transfer to the pot with ikan bilis stock with a slotted spoon.
10. Add xiao bai cai. Cook for another 5-8 minutes.
11. Add salt to your taste.



12. Serve hot.

Benefits of water cheastnuts :
It is a relatively cooling food and is said to help relieve coughs

Chicken Celery Soup

My hubby caught a cold, so I cooked this soup for him :)

Preparation Time; 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 2
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:



- 1 large onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 6 stalks of celery
- half chicken
- water
- salt

Directions:

1. Chop the onion, garlic and celery into small pieces
2. Cut the chicken. Get rid of all the fats if you are particular like me
3. Boil the water in the pot



4. Put all the ingredients into the pot
5. Lower the heat to a slow simmer
6. Cover the pot and cook it for around 20 minutes
7. Add salt to your taste
8. Serve hot

The soup will cause body temperature to rise, so expect some sweating, remain well covered and rest. Get well soon hunny :)

Benefits of celery:
1. Eating celery will reduce high blood pressure and give the effect of calmness.
2. Celery clears uric acid from painful joints and may help the treatment of arthritis and rheumatic problems.
3. Celery also helps the kidney an acts an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. (It helps eliminate body’s waste through the urine)

Garlic and onion help to protect against cardiovascular disease, respiratory concerns, diabetes, and a variety of cancers. Both of them are good for cold & flu.

Benefits of garlic:
1. Lowers blood pressure
2. Decrease the risk of blood clots developing that can cause strokes and heart attacks.
3. Fights a great number of bacteria and viruses and therefore helps to prevent infections and it decreases the risks of a number of different types of cancer, with an emphasis on cancers of the stomach.

Benefits of onion:
1. Increase the HDL cholesterol in the blood, especially when they are eaten in their raw state.
2. Decrease the bad cholesterol or LDL in the blood and they increase the ability of the blood to dissolve blood clots
3. Onions are excellent at decreasing the risk inherent in developing diabetes and help to fight off the bacteria that are responsible for causing many infections in the human body.
4. Decrease the risk of many different types of cancers

Watercress Pork Ribs Soup With Luóhàn Guǒ

I met 3 persons with sore throat today. One of them is my hubby. That's why I decided to cook this soup, because this soup is good and soothing for the throat. I hope that through this recipe below, more people will benefit from this simple soup.

Preparation Time; 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 2
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:




- 200 gr pork ribs or twee bak (pork belly / shoulder) - depending on your budget :P
- 200 gr watercress (西洋菜)
- 1 medium size luohan guo (罗汉果 - luóhàn guǒ)
It is sweet and has a unique flavour. If you are uncertain about the taste, I suggest you to take half of fruit for a big pot of soup
- 1 tbsp wolfberries
- water
- salt

Directions:



1. Cut twee bak (don't cut too small). Get rid of all the fats if you are particular like me.

2. Wash the watercress thoroughly and cut into shorter sections



3. Crack open the luohan guo (if it is too hard, you can crack it with the back of your knife)



We only use the meat inside..

4. Boil the water in the pot
5. Place the raw pork into the boiled water for a few seconds, pour away the water (This is to set meat so that the blood does not make a cloudy stock)
6. Pour 1 liter water into the pot
7. Add wolfberries, luohan guo and watercress



I took the picture before I put the watercress in :)

8. Lower the heat to a slow simmer
9. Cook it for around 40 minutes
10. When you are ready to serve it, discard the luohan guo and add salt to your taste and bring it to a boil
11. Serve hot



Result: A happy hubby :D



I asked him to drink the soup.. Get well soon dear :)

Wolfberry is good for:
- Support healthy immune system
- Anti-aging
- Cancer prevention
- Liver protection
- Hemopoiesis promoter
- Vision improvement

Watercress contains high iron, which makes it blood-enriching and excellent for the treatment of anaemia. It is classified as cooling, yet blood enriching food source. It helps to strengthen the lungs, thereby preventing common cold and reduces allergic symptoms such as asthma and nasal inflammation

Luohan guo is cooling and taste sweet. It is good for:
- Dryness in mouth and nose, or throat thirst;
- Dry cough with little phlegm;
- Dryness of skin in women, even chapped or ugly skin;
- Withered
- Malnourished hair, even resulting in hair loss;
- Sometimes constipation.

Of course it will be nicer if you use pork ribs :) But for us, twee bak is still ok :P. You can also add some red dates if you like.