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

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.

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.