honey dates

I used a whole chicken for this recipe, but you can use any part of the chicken.  Chicken legs and chicken wings come to mind.  I’m not a big fan of eating ginger, but I like ginger flavour.  So, in this recipe, I didn’t add any shredded ginger with the shredded green onions.  If you like cilantro, add it with the green onions and also some to cook the sauce.

Lotus Root and Dried Octopus Soup 章魚蓮藕湯

octopus

700 g Pork bones

900 g Lotus root

g Mung beans

Honey dates

mandarin peel

Water

Optional: rinse pork bones with water and put into a pot

Add water to the pot until the water covers the pork bones.  On high heat, bring the pork bones to a boil.  Turn off heat

Rinse off the bone fragments and impurities from the pork bones and put into a clean pot  If you don’t want to rinse the meat, you can wipe them clean with a paper towel

Soak 2 honey dates and a piece of dried mandarin peel in water for around 5 minutes.  I used one piece of mandarin peel that’s approx. 1” x 1”  If you like the taste of mandarin peel, you can add more

If your mandarin peel still has some of the membrane on it (white layer), scrape it off with a knife or spoon

Place the honey dates and mandarin peel into the pot with the pork bones

Peel carrots, cut into small pieces and put them in the pot

Peel lotus root and slice into small pieces and put them in the pot

Add 2.5L of water to the pot and bring to a boil

Rinse dried octopus and wipe clean with kitchen towels

Turn heat to medium in a wok or pan.  Place octopus into wok.  You can cut up the octopus if it’s too big to fit

Toast the octopus on both sides until aromatic and until it has obviously shrunk in size.  This should take approx. 6-8 minutes

Add the octopus into the pot

When the soup comes to a boil, reduce the heat to low and boil for a total of 2 hours

Soak the mung beans for approx. 1 hour

After 1 hour, drain the mung beans and add to the soup since octopus is considered a warming ingredient, to ensure that the soup is not too heaty, mung beans are added to cut the heatiness.  If you like the mung beans super soft, adding thickness to the soup, you can add it with the rest of the ingredients.  Adding it after 1 hour will keep your broth clean and the mung beans whole at the time of serving

Boil for another hour on low heat

Serve.  Note that I did not have to add any salt because the octopus had flavour and natural sea salt on it.  But if it’s not enough, you can add salt to taste.

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