Pork Soup With Astragalus

This soup is good for maintaining general good health and to relieve tiredness.

I made this soup using a store-bought pre-mixed herbal soup pack and the thermal cooking pot. The pork ribs are of course freshly bought.

From left: astragalus, dried chinese yam, codonopsis
root, dried dates, dried longan, chinese wolfberry

It took approximately 10 minutes on the stove to bring everything to a boil and another 4 hours to cook in the thermal cooker using inducted heat.

Besides the parboiling for the pork ribs, everything else is placed together in the pot and cooked together. It is really easy to prepare.

For a more detailed story about the cooking process and before-and-after photos, visit my blog post on it.

Ingredients
5g astragalus
23g chinese yam
5g codonopsis root
30g red dates
15g dried longan
15g chinese wolfberries
500g pork ribs
1000ml water

Equipment
1 thermal cooker

Directions

1. Parboil the pork ribs
2. Bring 1000ml water to a boil in the inner pot
3. Add the astragalus, codonopsis root, chinese yam, dried longan, chinese wolfberries and red dates
4. Add the pork ribs
5. Bring the water back a boil and cook for about 5 minutes
6. Remove from stove and place into the outer pot
7. Close and seal the lid
8. Let it cook for about 4 hours
9. Remove from the outer pot
10. Place back on stove and bring to a boil
11. Add salt to season
12. Serve

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