Sunday, June 30, 2013

花生鸡爪炖汤

Recently Drama Mama has been into cooking food for the family and I have made it a point to cook every Saturday... There will definitely be a soup cos I like soup a lot!!!!

Decided to share chicken feet with peanut soup (花生鸡爪炖汤) because I think it is the easiest to prepare among all the soup I made. No need to chop, de-seed, peel skin, etc etc.. In fact, all you need is to cut nails.. Sounds funny eh.. hahah


For the Ingredients: (Feed 6pax easily)

  1. 1.5 Cup of Peanut
  2. 15 Chicken Feet
  3. 1 Big Bone
  4. Dried Squid
  5. A few Red Dates (红枣) & Honey Dates (蜜枣)
  6. Salt & Pepper to taste
Directions 
  • Soak the peanuts for at least an hour. 
  • In a small pot of water, boil the big bone for a good 30-40min to remove the greyish stuff from the bone. If not, the soup will look dirty.
  • Cut away the nails of the feet (You would not want to have something pricking you when you are drinking the soup)
  • In a big pot, add in around 1.5l water, bring it to a boil. After that, add in the big bone and peanuts. Give it a boil for 25 minutes. 
  • Add in the rest of the ingredients. Boil over high heat for 20 minutes. Then bring it down to a low heat for around 45 minutes or until the peanuts become soft. Add salt and pepper to taste. 




Hey feety feet... 
 Apparently this soup is super good for women... It contains high amount of collagen (Both the chicken feet and the big bone contain collagen). And we Chinese has a saying, where we need to nourish, we eat that part. Like if you need to strengthen your legs you eat animal legs. So I guess chicken leg soup is good for strengthening our legs. dunno how true that is though.

Nutritious bowl of Chicken Feet with peanut soup
Soups are easy to make... And good for the soup... I'm going to make more soup ;D

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