Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts
Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts

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Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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 components. You can cook 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:
  1. Make ready 1/2 cup raw peanuts (optional)
  2. Take chicken/pork ribs
  3. Make ready 1 handful dried goji (optional)
  4. Take 10 dried red dates
  5. Take dried cuttlefish (optional)
  6. Get 1 long lotus root (sliced into thin)
  7. Get to taste salt

Humble lotus root soup has been on Chinese dinner tables for hundreds of years. Whenever purchasing or buying lotus root, I always remember the lotus root harvest in my husband's home province-Hubei. Young strong men use pull the lotus root out of the water by hand. Lotus root and pork soup is a simple, yet nourishing soup made with healthy lotus root and goji berries.

Steps to make Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts:
  1. In a small bowl, add peanuts and hot boiling water in. Soak them for 30 mins.
  2. Do the same for dried goji for 15 mins.
  3. Blanch the pork with hot water.
  4. Add water to the large pot and add all the ingredients on high heat.
  5. Once the water boiling, turn it to low heat and cook for an hour.
  6. Add salt to taste.
  7. Serve

When I think about this Lotus Root and Pork Soup (莲藕排骨汤), a very happy childhood memory comes to mind. When I was little and living in Hubei, the lotus harvest was always such a. Lotus root with peanuts is one of my favourite Chinese soups. 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.

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