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Today’s Simple Lunch – Lotus Root Soup With Peanuts, Red Dates And Snow Peas & Chinese Sausage

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I am finally back to my cooking blog! Surprise, right? It’s not www.MyHobbiesAndPassion.com, it’s www.HealthyChineseMealsRecipes.com for my cooking blog.

It’s a long story why there was such a move from the previous non-keyword domain to this keyword domain. If you are interested to know, hop over to my AKPK free debt management program blog and read the 3 posts that explained who, when, where, what, which and how. ;-)

It’s been more than 5 days since I recorded my daily Chinese meals and recipes. Well, not so long, right? If you go through what I have gone through, you’ll understand why there is no time and mood to record Chinese meals.

What did hubby and I have for lunch just now? Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts, Chicken Drumstick and Red Dates. Plus, snow peas aka Chinese peapods or Pang Pei Dao in Cantonese.

Snow Peas aka Pang Pei Dao
Photo Credit for Snow Peas

Snow peas are flat because they’re harvested while the peas are still underdeveloped.

Ingredients:

1 palm-sized lotus root, washed and skinned. Cut the roots cross-wise so that they look like wheels
1 chicken drumstick, washed and blanched with hot water
200g raw peanuts
Handful of snow peas
15 red dates
1000ml water
Salt/oyster sauce to taste

Directions:

1. Place the water, lotus roots, raw peanuts and red dates into rice cooker. Bring to boil.

2. Pour the boiling soup into the slow cooker. Add in chicken and snow peas.

3. Put on high and cook for 2 to 3 hours or until well cooked.

Besides the soup, we had Chinese sausage aka Lap Cheong. Again? What to do? Upon hubby’s request. ;-)

Of course, we didn’t eat so much like we did last time. I only steamed two rolls of Lap Cheong for today’s lunch and dinner.

While having his lunch just now, hubby said he really loved unpolished brown rice. Normally after eating white rice, he will feel bloated. But with brown rice, he doesn’t feel it at all.

Today’s Simple Dinner – Lotus Root Soup With Peanuts, Red Dates & Chicken Drumstick

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Too busy to cook last night due to a sudden increase of assignments. Wow, if it was like this every week, my bank account would be fat. :-)

I was able to cook tonight’s dinner because I completed 98% of the assignments. According to a blogging pal, there’s going to be another round of assignments today or tomorrow. Woo Hoo!

What did I cook for dinner? Of course, soup again. Tonight’s soup is Lotus Root Soup with Raw Peanuts, Chicken Drumstick and Red Dates.

Lotus Root Soup With Raw Peanuts & Red Dates
Photo Credit for Lotus Root Soup

This soup is traditionally cooked using pork ribs but there was no pork today, so I used chicken drumstick. So weird! Since I started cooking at home, I haven’t been able to buy any pork.

Ingredients:

1 lotus root, washed and skinned. Cut the roots cross-wise so that they look like wheels
1 chicken drumstick, washed and marinated with soy sauce/oyster sauce
200g raw peanuts
15 red dates
500ml water
Salt to taste

Directions:

1. Place the water, lotus roots, raw peanuts and red dates into the slow cooker.

2. Put on low and cook for 2 to 3 hours or until well cooked.

What a simple, homey, and economical soup! Of course, it’s a very light, pleasing, and refreshing soup that I just couldn’t stop sipping.

As for the chicken meat, it seemed to be softer and more tasty after hubby told me to marinate it with soy sauce or/and oyster sauce first.

As usual, there’s a vegetable dish. Tonight’s vegetable was Choy Sam aka Chinese Flowering Cabbage with Oyster Sauce.

What I did was I added Choy Sum into the pot of Lotus Root Soup and simmered until it was bright green and tender. It’s about 1 minute.

Then, I removed the Choy Sum from the soup, placed it on a plate and drizzled it with oyster sauce.

Yay, it’s Saturday again tomorrow! No need to cook. ;-)