Priscilla’s Favourite Recipes

Watercress soup

(Slow cooker / boil in pot)

Ingredients:
Watercress
10 red dates without seeds
1 tbsp of wolfberries (douqizi)
1 tbsp of Chinese “Bei” almond
1 tbsp of Chinese “Nan” almond
500g of pork ribs or lean pork
Salt (to taste)

Methods:
1. Wash and cut pork rib or lean pork to smaller size.
2. Throw all the ingredients except salt into slow cooker/pot.
3. Add hot water into slow cooker/pot.
4. Slow cooker turned to automatic and let it be till ready for dinner. (I do this while still in Singapore and working so I prepare in the morning and we eat in the evening.
Or
Pot, turn to middle flame and bring it to boil. Let it boil for 20 minutes and turned to small flame for another 15 minutes.
5. Add salt to taste and serve.

Pork rib with lotus root soup

(Can also used slow cooker, cook from morning)

Ingredients:
500-600g Pork
1 big Lotus root – 1 if is big one, 2 if is small
1 Carrot
8 Red dates
1 Dried octopus / dried squid
3 big soup bowls of water
a handful of chinese wolfberries

Methods:
1. Scald the pork rib – to get rid of the smell also the get rid of the blood etc so your soup will looks more appetizing and nice too.

2. Put some water in a pot put the pork rib inside and put it on the stove, cook till water boiling and then turn off the fire. Use tap water to wash and clean it.

3. Wash the lotus root, no need to cut. After the soup is ready then cut. Somehow the old people said like that taste better. Soak the red date, remove the seed. Wash the carrot, cut into small size.

4. Put water in a pot, boil the water. When cooking soup you must make sure the water is boiling before you put the meat/pork rib in.

5. Put all the ingredient in, cook for 2 to 3 hours. Start with big fire about 30min then turn to small one.

6. When it is ready, add salt to taste.

When using slow cooker, just used auto. But must used hot boiling water when making this soup.

Winter melon with Pork rib soup

(Slow cooker / boil in pot)

Ingredients:
200g of winter melon
10 red dates without seeds
1 tbsp of wolfberries (douqizi)
1 tbsp of Chinese “Bei” almond
1 tbsp of Chinese “Nan” almond
500g of pork ribs
Salt (to taste)

Methods:
1. Wash and cut pork rib to smaller size.

2. Throw all the ingredients except salt into slow cooker/pot.

3. Add hot water into slow cooker/pot.

4. Slow cooker turned to automatic and let it be till ready for dinner. (I do this while still in Singapore and working so I prepare in the morning and we eat in the evening.
Or
Pot, turn to middle flame and bring it to boil. Let it boil for 20 minutes and turned to small flame for another 15 minutes.

5. Add salt to taste and serve.