Five Treasure Soup

Recipe mainly adapted from Cuisine Paradise.

Slight changes in the ingredients.

500g lotus root (washed, peeled and chopped into chunks)
2 sweetcorn (chopped into chunks)
1 chicken breast with bone (chopped into 4 parts)
6 dried scallops (rinsed and soaked with warm water)
4 small dried mushrooms (soaked in hot water till soften)
14 seedless red dates
3 litres water

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Old Cucumber With Dried Scallops Soup (老黄瓜干贝汤)

Ingredients:

2 small old cucumber (scrubbed and washed. Cut into big pieces and deseeded)
1 chicken breast with bones (quartered and blanched)
8 dried scallops (soaked in warm water)
12 seedless red dates
1 carrot (cut into big pieces)
3 litres water
Salt

Methods:

1. Boil the water in a big pot.

2. Once the water starts to boil rapidly,  add chicken and the rest of the ingredients into the pot.

3. Boil for 20 minutes.  Reduce the heat and leave the pot covered. Simmer for 2 hours.

4. Turn the heat high and add the salt.  Cool for another 10 minutes before turning off the fire.

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Snow Fungus With Dried Scallops Soup

Ingredients:

2 snow fungus (soaked till soften. Cut away the yellow hard parts)
1 chicken breast with bones (quartered and scalded with hot water)
8 dried scallops (soaked)
12 seedless red dates
1 handful Yuzhu
3 litres water
Salt

Methods:

1. Boil the water in the big pot.

2. Once the water starts to boil rapidly, put in the chicken and red dates.

3. Add the dried scallops and Yuzhu. Boil for 30 minutes.

4. After 30 minutes, turn the heat down. Simmer for 2 hours.

5. Add the snow fungus and continue to simmer for 30 minutes.

6. Add the salt and stir well.

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