Pumpkin, Carrot & Corn Chinese Soup in a Pack
One of the beauties of living in Hong Kong....apart from... - HK$10 wonton noodle
- Coffee shop whole day breakfasts
- In some places, food being smashed on your table delivered to you within seconds after you uttered your orders
- HK$18 BBQ pork lunch boxes
...is Chinese Soup in A Pack
The locals drink their Chinese soup religiously.
Each soup has its own health benefits such as...as quoted the locals:
- good for skin
- good for the heart
- good for heat
- good for cold
- good for health
good good good...I wonder if they have some soups that's good for love/good for career/good for the economy?
My knowledge about Chinese soup is...nonexistent.
I don't know which ingredient goes with what, and I don't know which soup is good for what.
I might have been drinking soup which is "good for gentlemen"...since I seem to have grown quite a lot of moustache these days. Oppps. (No, Rita. Don't blame it on the soup. You've had moustache since...like..forever)
Anyway, based on my Chinese soup related cluelessness, soup in a pack is my best bet.
Last weekend I've chosen...
Pumpkin, Carrot and Corn Soup Pack
It's a Chinese soup combo that I haven't seen before, and despite the persistent scorching heat, autumn is coming, so something with pumpkin sounds perfect. I just grabbed a pack, it costs HK$18.50 (around USD2.3), it has all the necessary ingredients for the soup. I've added another pack of pork tenderloin too.
...and it doesn't get easier than this. Simply dump everything into a pot (an impatient bitch that I am, I used a pressure cooker ^_^), add boiling water, bring to boil and simmer for about 1 hour.
Since I use a pressure cooker, I could've been drinking a bowl of soup after just 15 minutes. But I want everything richer, sweeter, thicker, and tender, so I cooked my soup for 25 minutes. For pressure cooking vegetables, that's like...forever!
See my darling cooker blowing off steams?
That promises deliciousness.
...wow! The soup is naturally sweet from all the sweet ingredients with a touch of meatiness from the pork tenderloin, I simply added a bit of salt to make everything perfectly balanced.
Yum!...and the meat? Melt-in-your-mouth tender. Now back to the most important issue again. Does anyone know any soup that can make me richer, slimmer, prettier, and also smarter?
(Note to self: Chinese soups can only do so much, not the impossible)
Mochachocolata-Rita
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Anon,
17/11/2021
Heyy! Nice recipe :) It's been hard finding a pressure cooker recipe for HK style soups - so glad you posed this! I'm making it later this week.
Just a suggestion - it'd be easier if you include an approx weight of carrots, pork, pumpkin and corn you used? :)
I'm trying to remember what the white tiny kernels are haha. Are they apricot seed kernels?
I remember my mum putting some in soup before but forget the name!
- Cheers from a HK expat who misses HK :)
