Night Blooming Cereus Soup (霸王花老火靓汤)

I only came dorsum from Hong Kong concluding week. I basically purchase nix much. The affair that I bought are nutrient related stuffs. The dried seafood, chinese herbs & etcs inwards Hong Kong is cheaper in addition to ameliorate inwards quality. 

This week, I wanted to innovate yous this soup. The soup that powerfulness sounds non familiar to you, but it is the soup that is refreshing in addition to yous may desire to hand it a try.

Night Blooming Cereus Soup (霸王花老火靓汤)

I spotted Night Blooming Cereus Soup Pack inwards Hong Kong. So, I've got myself two pack of it. Everything is inwards there, except pork ribs in addition to dried cuttlefish that I require to add together in. Reason? I'm lazy. So, since I saw a convi pack selling there, why not?

What is Night Blooming Cereus (霸王花)? It sounds not familiar to you, right? Infact, non many people know how to exercise this. According to the net, Night Blooming Cereus it is the mutual advert referring to a large position out of flowering Cereus that bloom at night. They belongs to the cactus family. The flowers are brusque lived. Some of the species solely bloom 1 time a year, for a unmarried night. I read abit about this flower, and I realized that it has high nutrition in addition to medication goodness inwards there.

Most of the ingredients inwards a pot of Chinese soup has its medicinal exercise which is actually hard to explicate using English. Probably chinese writing would locomote easier to explicate it's goodness? (Source: www.hudong.com) 

霸王花性味甘微寒，具有丰富的营养价值和药用价值，对治疗脑动脉硬化、肺结核、支气管炎、颈淋巴结核、腮腺炎、心血管疾病有明显疗效，它具有清热润肺，除痰止咳，滋补养颜之功能，是极佳的清补汤料。

霸王花性味甘、凉，入肺，具有清热痰、除积热、止气痛、理痰火的功效。因此，霸王花煲汤具有清心润肺、清暑解热、除痰止咳的作用。其次，霸王花煲汤对辅助治疗脑动脉硬化、心血管疾病、肺结核、支气管炎、颈淋巴结核、腮腺炎等有明显疗效以及滋补养颜的功能。而且，霸王花制汤后，其味清香、汤甜滑，深为“煲汤一族”的广东人所喜爱，是极佳的清补汤料。


This is how the dried Night Blooming Cereus looks like. You tin instruct it from general chinese medical hall or some of the dried sundries store that sells general dried seafood and stuffs similar that. I spotted this at 1 of the dried sundries store inwards RedHill Wet Market over the weekend.

Removed the content from the convi pack. It has Night Blooming Cereus, Chinese Sweet Dates, mixed Chinese Almonds, in addition to a mini Luo-Han-Kuo (Grosvenor Momordica Fruit). With my convi pack, all I require is to add together is Dried Cuttlefish in addition to Pork Ribs inwards there, in addition to I volition convey a consummate ingredients for my soup.

But delight non to worry, all these ingredients tin locomote easily bought from whatsoever chinese medical hall inwards Singapore & Malaysia. So, no occupation at all if yous wants to brand this soup.

Ingredients (Serves 3 - four Pax) 

• 75g Night Blooming Cereus (霸王花)
• 30g Chinese Sweet Dates (蜜枣), about three pcs.
• 15g Mixture of Chinese Almonds (南杏+北杏)
• 1 pocket-size Luo Han Guo-Grosvenor Momordica Fruit (罗汉果).
• 230g Pork Ribs (about S$3.00 from moisture marketplace butcher.)
• 20g Dried Cuttlefish
• 2L Water
• common salt to taste

The Luo Han Guo inwards the convi pack is actually miserably mini sized. It weighted virtually 5g only. Sigh! You could instruct a bigger one. No occupation on that. For the mixture of chinese almonds, yous could become ahead in addition to add together to a greater extent than if yous want.

Method

1. Rinse pork ribs, scald inwards boiling H2O for awhile, take away in addition to rinse.

2. Wash the residue of the ingredients

3. In a soup pot, position everything inwards (except salt). Bring to a boil, in addition to thence trim oestrus in addition to simmer the soup over depression oestrus for three hours. And if yous convey the time, arrive four hours!

4. Salt to gustatory modality earlier serve

And this is what i called a pot of expert soup amongst Umph! lou-foh-leng-tong 老火靓汤! My advise... Buy a piece of cake cooker lah! This volition repose alot of hurting :)

This soup may looks irksome inwards color due to the natural color from Luo Han Kuo. But it's actually sweetness in addition to refreshing. Try it!

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