ABC Soup

ABC Soup ... 

Another pot full of nutrition. My girls love the carrots and potatoes.

Ingredient

2 large carrots, cut diagonally into big chunks

2 medium tomato, quartered
2 large potatoes, quartered
1 large yellow onion, quartered

1 small chicken bone (or 4 pieces of pork soup bone, or you can  even use lean meat)

3-4 litre water

8-10 large red dates
A handful of wolf berries 

1 tablespoon soya sauce (I like to use soya sauce just to make the soup a little darker)

Salt to taste

Another pot of water for cleaning the bone

Method

1) Heat water in a small pot just enough to cover the bone. Once boiling, put in bone and continue boiling for about 5min. After 5 minutes, run the bone through tap water to wash away the gunk and remove excess fat that is still stick to the bone. Drain and set aside.

*This step is to clean up the gunk and any excess oil to make the soup cleaner and less oily.

2) Heat 3-4 litre water in a stockpot. Put in carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, onion and red dates. Bring to boil. You can also add in  some peppercorn at this stage if you like the the slightly pepper spicy taste. 

3) Add in bone and let it continue boil at high heat for another 15min, with lid open. 

4) After 15min, cover stockpot and turn heat to low. Continue to simmer for 1.5 - 2 hours. I cover the stockpot so that the liquid does not evaporate too much. If the liquid overspill after you covered the pot, you can either leave the lid slightly open, or turn the heat even lower, but make sure the soup still bubble slightly.

5) Add in wolf berries, soya sauce and salt to taste, 10 minutes before done.

6) Turn off heat after the soup has been simmered for about 2 hours.