

Red Date (红枣): It is a blood tonic, that can be widely used with other ingredients to nourish the body.
Dried Longan (桂圆肉): It influences the heart and spleen channels. Calms the spirit, nourishes the blood and strengthens the spleen. Commonly used to treat heart palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, worrisome tendencies and overwork.
Wolfberries (枸杞子): It strengthens body and bones, supplements kidneys and energy, nurses liver and clarifies eyes. It also cultivates energy and aids yang bodies moistness lungs and stops coughing. Other than use it as a soup ingredient, it can be used as a condiment in frying dishes or used to make tea. Choose Qizi which are full and with bright colour.
Ingredients: (Serves 2)
5g Ling Zhi Slices
10g Dried Longan
5g Wolfberries
8 - 10 Big Red Dates
Honey Dates (金丝蜜枣)
2 Hard-boiled Egg, removed shell
800ml Water
1 Knot of Pandan Leave, optional
Method:
1. Place the uncooked eggs in a small saucepan and bring to boil, then simmer for about 5 -7 minutes, remove from pan, rinse and peel off the shell then set aside.
2. Rinse all the herbs ingredients then place them (except the wolfberries) in the pot of boiling water (800ml) and simmer together with the pandan leave for about 3 minutes.
3. Add in the eggs and bring to boil again then transfer the mixture to a ceramic pot.
4. As usual, I always place the ceramic pot into the slow-cooker and cook on Auto for about 2 hours. (you can take a look a the sample HERE)
3. Add in the wolfberries at the very last 30 minutes of cooking time.
Note:
~ You can replace the hard-boiled eggs to a few quail eggs if you prefer a small portion.
~ If you find the taste a bit too bitter for your linking, you can add some rock sugar to sweet it.



First time I see someone using eggs.I am sure it tastes great.
ReplyDeleteHi Foodlovee....do give this a try and i am sure you will like the taste of the hardboiled egg with this soup :)
ReplyDeleteHi Ellena,
ReplyDeleteCan I replace the eggs with chicken ?
Hi Ellena,
ReplyDeleteIs this soup suitable for a 3years+ toddler? Thanks!
Sharon Leong
Thank you for sharing this recipe, I just tasted it in a Hong Kong's restaurant, the first thing I wanted after this was to know how I should make it!
DeleteHi there, hope you find this recipe useful :)
DeleteHi Sharon, I am not sure about kid's but I did let my boy try when he is a toddle. Just a few spoonful like a small soup bowl. HTH :)
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