I don’t know about you, but I love my old cucumber soup with carrot. I find that the sweetness of carrots complements the taste of the old cucumber very well. You can cook this via slow cooker or on the stove top. I usually cook it on the stove but the slow cooker is a great tool when I need to be out of the house and yet want some nourishing soup for dinner.
The goodness of old cucumber soup awaits me….
- 1 small old cucumber (scrubbed clean, seeds scooped out, cut into chunks, leave skin on)
- 2 small carrots or 1 large carrot (cut into chunks)
- 250g pork ribs
- 3 chicken carcasses
- 8 red dates, pitted
- 10g dried scallop
- 1 teaspoon bitter and sweet almonds
- 1 candied date (optional)
- 1 dried cuttlefish (optional)
- 3 cloves garlic (with skin on)
- fish sauce and/or salt to taste
- 1L water (if cooking via slow cooker)/ 2-3L (if cooking on stove top)
- Blanch the pork ribs and chicken bones.
- Rinse the bitter and sweet almonds, red dates, cuttlefish and garlic and add these together with the candied date, pork ribs and chicken bones to a soup bag before putting the bag into the water in a slow cooker. Add the dried scallop in the slow cooker.
- Let the soup base slow cook for about 6hours on LOW.
- Add the old cucumber and carrots and cook for another 2 hours on HIGH.
- Add fish sauce/ salt to taste.
- Blanch the pork ribs and chicken bones.
- Rinse the red dates, cuttlefish and garlic and add these together with the pork ribs and chicken bones to a soup bag before putting the bag into the water in a slow cooker. Add the dried scallop in the slow cooker.
- Bring the soup to a boil then simmer for 2-3hours on low heat.
- Add the old cucumber and carrots in the last hour.
- Add fish sauce and/or salt to taste.
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