Chinese Vegetable Broth

Regardless of warmer days, I adore soup and appreciate it all year round. It soothes me. My nan and mom, always serve soup prior to a main meal and for me, it takes me back 'home' if not only for a little while.

Photo above is of the vegetable stock.

The following recipe was inspired from my Vital Vegetables BBC good Food Cookbook. The original recipe required frying kale on the side, however, I chose not to do this. Several other changes were made as well. The vegetable broth I made for this soup, contained your usual mixed vegetables along with half of a deseeded red chilli to 'spice' it up just a tad. It may have been the first time I made this soup but it is one I plan to make again and again. To me, it is a Tried, True and Tested recipe that I would like to submit to the lovely mother-daughter duo at Equal Opportunity Kitchen, Giz and Psychgrad. A Happy Belated Mother's Day to all mothers who celebrated yesterday- hope it was a good one for you.


Chinese Vegetable Broth
Serves 4

2 garlic cloves
1 lemon grass stalk
an inch piece of fresh ginger root, chopped
3 spring onions, sliced
half of a red chilli, deseeded and chopped
3 pints of fresh vegetable stock
about 5 baby sweetcorns, halved lengthways
1 small carrot, cut into sticks
1-2 Pak Choi
handful of chopped curly kale
300g of fresh Chinese noodles
1 T dry sherry
2T of soy sauce
2T of lime juice

Blend the garlic, lemon grass, ginger, spring onions and chilli to a paste. Heat your fresh vegetable stock in a pan with the paste until boiling. Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

Add your fresh vegetables; corn, carrots, mushrooms, pak choi, cruly kale and noodles for 5-10minutes. Add the sherry, soy sauce and lime juice about 3 minutes to the end.

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You can find some of my favourite dishes I've had the opportunity to try in my Recipe Index, under the section 'Cooking with You' It's wonderful to be able to share recipes with each other and I thank all of you who share them simply because they want to- from their heart.

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