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

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.

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.