Re-entering the Kitchen: Green Radish and Carrot Soup (青红罗卜汤)

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For an alternative tasty soup, try this one!

Thanks to Food 4 Tots, we have another new soup to enjoy :)

Just the other day while I was doing grocery shopping at Sheng Siong, the sight of green radish caught my eye. Another new vegetable to KIV for home-cooking I thought. Soon enough, I found a soup recipe that uses green radish and bang, the dish was born in our household :)

Beautiful cross-sections don't you think? :)

An added bonus of this tasty soup is that it has some medicinal properties which could reduce phlegm. Just what we needed here. Hannah has been coughing still and Yang just came down with yet another cough. The soup came just in time! Lovely.

I substituted lean pork for pork spare ribs in the recipe and as usual used much less water as we prefer a richer flavoured soup :) I pan-fried some buttered prawns to go with the soup for a simple dinner at home. We finished everything. :)

6 thoughts on “Re-entering the Kitchen: Green Radish and Carrot Soup (青红罗卜汤)”

  1. Our version has three-coloured “carrots” – green, red, white. And then corn. Apparently boiled together with the cornsilk, it is even more “medicinal”. ;D

  2. Hi Sam,

    I just cooked this soup today with corn added – what a coincidence! Thanks for the idea of adding white raddish and corn silk. I shall give this new combination a shot the next time. BTW, do you guys eat the green raddish? It was bitter on both occasion I cooked them.

  3. Hi Ling,

    How long do you boil this soup? It’s not bitter any of the times we done this. Our soups get slow-boiled a good part of the afternoon … er, we’re Cantonese lah. Bittergourd soup slow-boiled also not bitter wat.

  4. Hi Sam,

    Oh, so yours wasn’t bitter at all? Dear me, what went amiss? I usually use very low heat to simmer it for 2 hours. Could it be becos of the nan xing bei xing I added? Thanks a lot!

  5. Your green radish looks a bit different than mine. Could it be the reason? Did your soup taste bitter or the green radish taste bitter? Nan xing is sweet and bei xing is bitter. But I don’t think they make the soup bitter unless they contain liew huang.

  6. Hi Lai Kuan,

    It was the green radish that was bitter. My hubby remarked that the carrots were a bit on the bitter side too. The soup was the tasty part. May be I should try buying the green radish from a different place.

    Thanks for dropping by! :D

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