Potato soup recipe with pork ribs and carrot

This potato soup recipe with pork ribs and carrot is a superly yummy and healthy chinese soup.

I like to drink this chinese soup whenever I am feeling overworked, tired and stressed.

If you want the potatoes and carrots to be softer, you can lengthen the cooking time to a maximum of 1 hour. If you want a crunchier soup, you can cut bigger cubes.

Do not try to shorten cooking time by increasing heat. Cooking over low heat is important. The flavour of the soup does require more than 30 minutes of simmering to develop.

Read a little true story about this cold relieving soup

Ingredients

200g potatoes
100g carrots
300g pork ribs
2 tbsp 枸杞子 (gou qi zi) / chinese wolfberry / boxthorn fruit
3 dried red dates, cored
1800ml water
Salt & pepper

Directions

1. Parboil the pork ribs, drain, wash & trim off any excess fat
2. Peel the carrots and potatoes, cut into bite-sized cubes
3. Bring 1800ml water to boil, add ribs, carrots and potatoes
4. Simmer for 30 mins. Add salt and pepper to taste
5. Let stand for 5-10 minutes before serving

You can also make this soup in the slow cooker or the thermal cooking pot. For the thermal cooking pot, bring the water and ingredients to boil in the inner pot. Let it boil for about 20 minutes before transferring in into outer pot and sealing it tight. Give it about 2 to 3 hours. Take out the inner pot and check whether the potato is soft and the pork is tender. If they are, take the pot out and bring the soup back up to a boil before serving.

For the slow cooker, place the water and ingredients into the earthen pot and turn the slow cooker on high. Cover and let it cook for about 30 minutes. Turn to low and continue to cook till the potato is soft and pork ribs is tender.

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This page has been edited and updated on 11 August 2013.

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