9/20 Powwow Soup Meetup with Recipes

Our upcoming soup meet up will be this upcoming Sunday, September 20, 4:00pm in Pasadena (at Tao's clinical office).  Tao and Sandi will be featuring Fall seasonal soup that's popular in Cantonese kitchens. Tao will bring in a dessert soup and Sandi will bring in a savory broth. For this upcoming powwow session, we invite all attendees to bring in a healing soup that they make in their own kitchen and share the origin or inspiration for their soup. More details  about the event is on the FB event's page. 

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Papaya and Snow Fungus  Dessert Soup*
Cantonese grandmother loves making this dessert soup in preparation for the dry autumn season or to nourish the body during dry seasons.

*also known as the Papaya, Yin Er, Hong Zao, Lian Zi soup
Recipe
Ingredients:

• Papaya 200 g
• Snow Fungus (yin er) 30 g
• Lotus seeds (lian zi) 30 g
• Dried Jujube dates (hong zao) 10 pieces
• Crystal rock sugar (bing tang) 
  
• Water

Preparation and Cooking

1. Papaya, without peels or seeds, are cut into big cubes.
2. Yin Er and Lian Zi and Hong Zao are washed and soaked for 1 hour.
3. Put all ingredients into a pot. Put 2 to 3 times of water compared to the dry ingredients. 
4. Bring to a boil then simmer for 1 hour. Add crystal sugar to taste. Soup can be serve warm or chilled.

Photo credit: Tao Kwan

Apple and Pear Meat Broth
One of the popular autumn meat broth in the Cantonese household. Often times, the seasonal fruits and herbs are combined with meat or bones to make a savory broth.

Recipe
Ingredients:

• 3 medium size Fuji apples (suggest using sweet apples such as Red Delicious, Fuji, Gala and etc...)
  
• 2 Asian pears 
• 1 dried honey date
• 10g peeled apricot seeds (1:2 ratio with peeled apricot seeds to north almonds)
• 20g north almonds
• 8g Ophiopogon Tuber (Mai Men Dong--Chinese Medicine Herb for nourishing Yin and for dry coughs)
• ~2-3oz lean pork (or your choice of meat or bone--could be omitted but would not bring out the flavor of other ingredients) -- this is optional
• Water

Preparation 

1. Wash all produce well. (if needed, use salt to scrub off excess wax on the apples) then into quarter pieces, removing the core.
2. Soak apricot seeds, north almonds and Ophiopogon tuber for 20 minutes.
3. Blanch the lean pork (or meat/bone of choice). Prepare a boiling pot of water, place raw meat into boiling water for 5 minutes then rinse in cold water.

Cooking

1. In a large pot, add water then add apricot seed, north almond, ophiopogon tuber and meat. When the water boils, add in the pears and apples. (make sure to have enough water to covers the ingredients--usually 2x more than the ingredients) 
2. Bring to a boil then simmer for about 2 1/2 Hours. (water level will boil down to the level of the ingredients). Soup can be serve warm or cold. 

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