This Bitter Gourd with Spare Ribs and Dates Soup is a hot favorite with my family. Bitter gourd has many health benefits. It contains a mixture of flavonoids and alkaloids which stimulates the pancreas to produce insulin that controls the blood sugar levels in diabetics. If you are a diabetic, then bitter gourd soup is good for you.
You will need one bitter gourd, 5 large red dates, 5 large dried oysters and spare ribs. You can use chicken if you want to. It’s easy to prepare. Rub spareribs with some salt and set aside. Cut the bitter gourd into half, and scoop the spongy insides out with a spoon. Wash it and cut into bite size pieces. Cut the dates and remove the stones. Wash the salt from the spare ribs and blanch with hot water. I do this to remove the “porky” taste from it. Final step, put everything into the crockpot and put on high for a few hours.
And this is how the Bitter Gourd with Spare Ribs and Dates Soup looks like when served. The soups is clear, not cloudy. The bitter gourd is soft and not bitter at all. The dates and dried oysters add sweetness to the soup. Smells heavenly too. Go on. Make this for dinner tomorrow, ya. Hope you like my Bitter Gourd with Spare Ribs and Dates Soup recipe.
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September 11, 2008 - 4:38 am
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My mother-in-law buys hairy gourds back every once in a while. Today, she asked me what to do with it and i suggested we make hairy gourd soup with it. I’ve not had hairy gourd soup for a long time and both my kids love it too. It’s easy to prepare. Just need to remove the peel and scrape out the seeds.
I found some red dates and dried oysters inside the fridge and decided to add those in as hairy gourds can be a bit bland. Dried oysters adds flavor to almost any kind of soup. The red dates will add sweetness. Yes, remove the seed from the red dates. Mother-in-law says to add some spare-ribs to the soup too cos she’s too lazy too cook it, lol. You can read instructions on how to get rid of pork smell here.
And here you go. A nice clear bowl of Hairy gourd soup with spare ribs, dried oysters and red dates. A really cooling soup recipe for the whole family.Get your man to eat the oysters. Contains lots of zinc which is the main ingredient for sperm production. Strong man = strong babies…. you get the drift….
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March 31, 2008 - 11:44 pm
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Bought a few packets of these Japanese miso soup cos hubby loves them. We used to drink them at Sushi King but my kid cant sit still there and would grab at everything from the kaiten belt. So, no choice. Have to make do with these instead. No idea what these instant Japanese miso soup taste like. Hope they turn out fine.
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March 11, 2008 - 2:42 am
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Today is like just any other day. Except that i’m feeling much better and can stomach some food. Both Malcolm and i are down with diarrhea. I suspect it’s got to do with the straw we used to sip our milk on Saturday night that made us sick. Anyway, he’s also teething and just like me, cant keep food down in him for long. Since the both of us cant really eat much, soup is the best comfort food of all. Moreover, my school-going kid also gotta eat.
And this is the vegetables soup with black chicken which i made. Ingredients are carrots, potatoes, tomatoes and big onions. Add a few peppercorns to make the soup warm for the body as vegetables can be cooling and it is not favorable to people with diarrhea. And of course, the black chicken. Why black chicken, cos it’s supposed to be more nourishing than the normal variety. Malcolm loves the carrots, tomatoes and potatoes, mashed.
My MIL says we’re not going to cook much for Chap Goh Mei this year. Chap Goh Mei is on 21st February and i learned that there is going to be total lunar eclipse on that very day, the very last one till December 2010. Definitely worth staying up for if you are living in America, Europe and Africa. In those parts of the world, the total lunar eclipse will be on 20th February 2008. We’re one day ahead here. So, if you have the patience, do stay up and snap some good pics of the total lunar eclipse, ya.
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February 20, 2008 - 2:01 am
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I’m not very fond of using peanuts for soups. I have a hunch that my kid is allergic to peanuts. Just that i dont know which type he’s allergic to. There was once he went to my mom’s place and had some food there. It was just a coincidence that she boiled some vegetable soup with peanuts. He came home and had a bad rash for the whole night. I cannot be too sure whether he got it from the peanuts or not. It may not be peanuts. It may be the mixed nuts contained in the chocolate that he ate at my mom’s place.
I made this Papaya, Peanuts and Dates Soup with Spare Ribs last week and i also gave him some to test if he’s allergic to peanuts or not. Fortunately, he’s not. This soup is very nourishing and sweet. All the ingredients are already in the title and you can substitute spare ribs with any meat of your choice or do without it altogether. Just remember to soak the peanuts overnight for at least 10 hours and remove the skin. If not, the skin will turn your soup too cloudy. Less than 10 hours and the peanuts will be too hard to chew on. Try it.
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January 12, 2008 - 10:04 pm
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