Soup Name: Bok Choy with Chinese Ham in Pork Broth

Traditional Chinese Name: 菜乾火腿湯 (cài gān huǒ tuǐ tāng)

Introduction:

One of the best smelling Chinese soups I have ever made.  It is deliciously sweet and extremely beneficial to the lungs with it’s perfect combination of Chinese herbs that target to moisturize, heal, cleanse the lungs.  The dried bok choy and preserved Chinese ham are a great and common Cantonese combination for soups.

1 pound of fresh pork shank
3 large carrots
2 fresh corn
50 g of dried bok choy
100 g of Chinese preserved ham

1/8 of a luo han guo
1 piece of dried tangerine peel
1 tablespoon of apricot kernals
20 g of rice beans
4 honey dates
1 Codonopsis Pilosula Root (5 g)
3 g of wind weed rhizome
3 g of root bark of White Mulberry
2-3 L of water

How do I prepare it

1. Blanch fresh pork shank in a pot of boiling water
2. Boil your soup water
3. Prepare carrots and corn by cutting into edible pieces
4. Rinse well in warm water the dried bok choy and all of the additives (other ingredients)
5. When water boils, add all the ingredients together
6. Boil on high for 30 minutes and reduce to simmering for another 1.5 hours
7. Serve and enjoy!
   

Any benefits?

Great for healing, aiding and cleansing the lungs
Ideal for relieving cough symptoms
Helps remove some heatiness

Any precautions?

• Considered a cooling soup, so women who are less than 3 months pregnant should take caution
• People who also can’t take too cooling soups should drink less (or avoid)