Name: Lotus Seed Pork Belly Soup
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 350g Pork belly; 15g Lotus seed; 15g peanut; 2 pcs Red dates; 5g ginger; Some Bay leaf; 2 tablespoons Cooking Wine; 1 tablespoon salt; Some Wolfberry; Some Corn flour

Lotus Seed Pork Belly Soup

by Hua Ning Yuyan

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Speaking of pigs are really treasures all over the body, from pork to internal organs, they are all edible. The part mentioned today should be said to be the most expensive part of the pig. No matter how expensive it is, you must buy it to make soup and make it healthy. The spleen and stomach replenish qi and blood. This part is the pork belly. The pork belly is the stomach of the pig. I used to buy cooked pork belly to eat. It tastes strong, but I don’t know that pork belly can also be used in soup, and its nutritional value is very high.
They all talk about what to eat and what to supplement. If the stomach is not good, you can try this pork belly soup. In fact, pork belly can also be used in soup with ginseng, soybeans, and yam. The therapeutic effects are also different, and you can adjust it according to your needs. Raw pork belly will smell a bit fishy. In addition to salt, one thing should be added when cleaning. The pork belly is clean and has no peculiar smell. See below for details.

Lotus Seed Pork Belly Soup

1. If you buy raw pork belly, you must clean it in the first step. Everyone knows that adding salt when cleaning can remove the fishy smell, but you always feel that it is not clean. You can add some corn flour instead of water, and rub it directly on the surface. All the mucus will be rubbed off, and then washed, so that the washed pork belly is clean and has no peculiar smell.

2. After washing the pork belly, add water, put ginger slices, bay leaves, cooking wine, and boil it for about three minutes. This step is to remove the fishy smell again.

3. Take out the boiled pork belly, rinse with cold water, then cut into strips, according to personal habits.

4. The lotus seeds and peanuts are soaked in advance so that they will soften when they are boiled. The lotus seeds should have their cores removed, otherwise they will have a bitter taste.

5. Put the red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, and cut pork belly strips into the pot

6. Add ginger slices to remove fishy, then add a spoonful of salt

7. Add enough water, and then start to cook the soup. The pork belly soup will take a little longer. It is best to cook it in a casserole over low heat. I cooked it in a rice cooker today. I cooked it for 2 hours. White, the pork belly is soft and waxy, that's it.

8. The light and delicious lotus seed and pork belly soup is ready. I will drink this soup this summer to invigorate the spleen and stomach and help digestion.

Tips:
Pork belly is delicious but difficult to clean. As long as the method is mastered, the pork belly can be clean and odorless. Salt, cooking wine, and corn flour must not be less. Clean the pork belly twice to remove the internal dirt, and then use salt. Rub it with corn flour, don't put water, so that all the mucus on the surface of the pork belly will be washed away.