Soup Name: Snow Pears, Chayotes and Seabed Coconut in Pork Broth

Traditional Chinese Name: 雪梨合掌瓜湯 (xuě lí hup jeung gwa tāng)

Introduction:
A mildly cooling soup that helps relieve heatiness, assist in cough and is naturally sweet.  It’s great for kids, easy to make and contains all natural ingredients.  You can use chicken meat with this instead of pork bones (or pork shank).  If you can’t get fresh (or frozen) seabed coconut, the dried version is sufficient (although not as sweet, so you can substitute additional snow pears).

What Ingredients are required?

1 pound of fresh pork bones
3 fresh chayotes, quartered and cored
5 fresh seabed coconuts, halved
4 fresh snow pears, halved and cored
1 tablespoon of apricot kernels
2-3 L of water

How do I prepare it?

1. Boil your soup water
2. Boil another pot of water to blanch your pork bones (blanch in boiling water for 5 minutes)
3. Remove pork bones from water and set aside
4. Rinse in warm water, core both chayotes and snow pears – cut both into large, edible portions
5. Rinse seabed coconut in warm water and halve
6. When soup water boils, add pork bones, chayotes, snow pears, seabed coconut and apricot kernals
7. Boil on high heat for 30 minutes and reduce to a simmer for another hour
8. Serve and enjoy!

Any benefits?

Excellent soup for relieving mild heatiness
Mildly cool and appropriate for children
Naturally sweet and nutritious

Any precautions?

• Pork bone soups often do produce quite a big of fat (over pork shank), so be sure to use an oil scooper to remove the fat before serving