Chinese Pear Soup

• Meat

  • 250 g Pork, ribs

• Produce

  • 3 tsp Apricot, sweet kernels
  • 4 Dates, dried pitted red
  • 4 Figs, dried
  • 2 Honey dates
  • 4 Pears, fragrant

• Other

  • 10 g Snow fungus

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Description

Ingredients

• 4 fragrant pears (about 150g each) - peel, cut into halves and cored
• 250 gm pork ribs
• 3 tsp of sweet apricot kernels (南杏)
• 4 dried figs
• 2 honey dates
• 10 g snow fungus
• 4 dried pitted red dates
• Water - Just enough to immerse all the ingredients

Directions

• Soak white fungus for about 15 minutes (longer if you can) in water to soften it. Cut off the hard bottom and discard. Cut the remaining white fungus into smaller pieces and set aside.
• In a pot of boiling water, blanch the pork ribs for about 5 minutes to remove scum. Do not skip this process if you want a clear pot of soup. Remove pork ribs from the pot. Rinse and set them aside.
• Add blanched pork ribs, pears, snow fungus, dried figs, honey dates, dried red dates, sweet almonds and water into a soup pot and bring it to a boil. Once boiling, lower the heat and simmer for around 1.5 hours or until meat is tender.
• Season with salt if desired.