Watercress Chicken Soup

Mmmmmmm.......another watercress soup. It's amazing how many types of watercress soup I can make and at least it gives some variety to my little girl and myself then to always have the same type of watercress soup. I'm not sure if my little one would notice the difference but well......I do.

So, here's another watercress soup recipe but using chicken instead.

Ingredients:-

- 500g of chopped chicken (depending how many people you're cooking for)

- bunch of watercress, chopped

- 3 large bowls of water

- 2 pieces of dried squid pieces

- 6-8 dried Chinese red dates

- handful of wolf berries or better known as kei chi

- 3 Honey dates

1. Boil boil in a large pot

2. Once water is boiling, put in all the ingredients.

3. Boil for about 10 minutes at high fire. Then, transfer to slow cooker and boil under Auto throughout the day.

4. Serve with warm rice.

I always thought cooking soup was complicating but in actual fact, it's really easy. Easier than I expected and I can now proudly say I can boil a whole bunch of healthy soups for my daughter.

Nagaimo Yam Pork Soup

And I'm still experimenting different kind of soup as I go along because there are just so many kinds and here is one I finally managed to find the damn ingredient after asking soooooooo many people. Some of these ingredients is best to get them from high end supermarkets who sell a wider variety of vegetables from around the world than your local ones. But of course, the first would be to be able to identify them like this yam rhizome which literally drove me nuts. Lol!!!

Ingredients:-

- 500g to 1kg of pork ribs and soft ribs (depending how many people you're cooking for)

- 3 large bowls of water

- 1 carrot, sliced thickly

- 6 Chinese dried mushrooms

- 2 corns cut each into 3 chunks

- 1 yam rhizome or Japanese nagaimo, sliced thickly

- 6 to 8 red dates

1. Boil some water over high heat first and then pour over the pork. This removes the murky looking stuff from the pork or else your soup will turn out murky. You may do it twice if you wish but make sure you have 2 rounds of boiling water with you then.

2. On a separate pot, boil the 3 large bowls of water.

3. Once boiled, throw in all the ingredients including the pork and allow to boil under high heat for about 10 to 20 mins.

4. Then, transfer the entire pot and pour it into a Slow Cooker to cook.

**NOTE**

If you've got someone to watch the Slow Cooker, cook under Low for about 3 hours and then switch to Auto for the rest of the time till you want to have it. Or, you can leave it under Auto for the next 6-8 hours and it will be fine. I actually boiled mine at 6.30am and transferred to Slow Cooker at 7am under Low till 10.30am and switched to Auto thereafter; and left it till I had it at 7pm. 

So, another type of healthy soup for you and your family to enjoy.