Month: January 2021

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Food Recipes

Recipe: Egg Drop Soup

This is an fast soup recipe, taking about 15 minutes (excluding soaking the dried tofu).

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 cups chicken broth
  • 2 cups water
  • 2 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 1 teaspoon powder ginger
  • Swiss chard, bok choy, or kale
  • 2 pieces dried tofu
  • Handful of mung bean thread (optional)
  • 1 or 2 eggs
  • Salt, to taste
  • White pepper, to taste

DIRECTIONS

  1. Soak dried tofu in water for an hour
  2. Put 2 cups chicken broth in a pot
  3. Add 2 cups water
  4. Stir in 2 tablespoon of cornstarch, while broth/water is cold
  5. Add 1 teaspoon of powder ginger
  6. Bring to boil, stirring so that cornstarch dissolves
  7. Chop swiss chard and add to pot
  8. Chop hydrated tofu skin and add to pot
  9. Add mung bean thread (optional)
  10. Cook for about 5 minutes
  11. Beat 1-2 eggs in a bowl, and slowly stir into the soup
  12. Done in 3 minutes
  13. Add salt and white pepper to taste
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Recipe: Rice Cooker Gingko Nut Congee

INGREDIENTS

  • 1/2 cup Jasmine rice
  • 5 cups water
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1/3 can of gingko nuts
  • 2 stalks of dried beancurd (hydrated)
  • Salt to taste

DIRECTIONS

  1. Soak 3 stalks of dried tofu in water
  2. Place 1/2 cup of Jasmine rice in rice cooker
  3. Add 1 cup of chicken broth
  4. Add 5 cups of water
  5. Set rice cooker in porridge mode, and
  6. When almost done, break dried tofu into rice cooker
  7. Add 1/3 can of gingko nuts
  8. Stir congee to thicken
  9. Add salt to taste