Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts
Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lotus root soup with peanuts. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This is another variation of "lou foh tong", meaning slow-cooked Chinese soup. Lotus root soup is common among the Chinese community and a must have during. 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 Root Soup with Peanuts is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must 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:
  1. Take 1/2 cup raw peanuts (optional)
  2. Make ready chicken/pork ribs
  3. Get 1 handful dried goji (optional)
  4. Make ready 10 dried red dates
  5. Make ready dried cuttlefish (optional)
  6. Make ready 1 long lotus root (sliced into thin)
  7. Prepare to taste salt

Lotus root has a sweet flowery aroma and a refreshing taste that perfectly paired with pork and peanuts. You can also prepare lotus root soup with carrots, as it compliments well with other ingredients. One small carrot should be sufficient for the quantity in this recipe. Lotus root with peanuts is one of my favourite Chinese soups.

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

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. 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. I am on a soup binging craving recently and have been trying to incorporate some kind of soup in my meals recently.

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