Chinese Food

Chinese Food:The soup of chops with balsam pear and semen coicis

Making :

semen coicis , chops , balsam pear , star anise , light ginger , scallion , salt , cooking wine .

A practice :

1. Dip semen coicis in clear water about 2 hours before using it .

2. Append the cleaned chops after boiling the water and append star anise , light ginger and cooking wine to quick-boil several minutes .

3. Clean the quick-boiled chops with dipped semen coicis , slices of light ginger and segments of scallion to append the pan to stew , boil the water of right amount one time by conflagration and boil that about 2 to 3 hours by middle or small fire .

4. Take out the white intima and seeds of balsam pear and cut it to small pieces .

5. Open the lid to after boiling 2 to 3 hours and append balsam pear to boil 20 to 30 minutes , it is ok to append salt to fix .

Tips :

1. It will be better to quick-boil chops by boiled water bacause the surfac of meat will shink to meet high temperature and absorb nutient content of meat effectively .

2. Append one star anise , light ginger and cooking wine to take out some fishy smell of meat when you quick-boil chops , it can take out the water of blood of chops to quick-boil and make cooking liquor more tidy and no mince blood and fishy smell .

3. You’d better dip semen coicis in water a few moments becant it can’t be boiled to be rip in short time .

4. Balsam pear is very easy to be boild and change yellow color , so you cant’t append it too earty .

5. It is best to boil the soup by tiaditional pottery jar , if you want it qucikly and you can use the pressure cooker , it is ok when the pressure cooker appears gas and boils about 20 minutes by small fire .

6. It is convenient to stew slowly according to time , you can drink the fresh soup as boiled by pottery jar after working if you append the making before working .