Name: Old Cucumber Soup
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 60 min
Ingredients: 800 g old cucumber; 500 g pork ribs; 1 tbsp bitter almonds; 3 tbsp sweet almonds; 4 pcs dried scallops; 8 pcs red dates; 1600 ml water; 1 tsp salt (or to taste)

Old cucumber Soup is the most common soup in the Chinese family especially the Cantonese. Old cucumber is actually a matured cucumber. It is nutritious and healthy, helps to lower heatiness in our body and also good for complexion. I also added the bitter North almond (北杏）and sweet South Almond (南杏). The bitter North almond can exert a certain sedative effect on the respiratory nerve center, and has the effects of relieving cough and relieving asthma. This is an easy and fuss free recipe for this tasty soup. Just cut the old cucumber with skin intact into chunks (remove the seeds or remain) and blanch the pork ribs in boiling water to remove the scum bits. Rinse the dry ingredients and place everything in the electric pressure cooker and start to cook at the soup button! It takes about 45 minutes to boil the soup in the pressure cooker while on the fire stove, you need to simmer the soup for at least one and the half hour.

Old Cucumber Soup

This nutritious and healthy tasty soup is easy to make at home without much effort

Author Ann Low

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 45

Total Time 1

Course Soup

Cuisine Asian, Chinese

Servings

Equipment

Pressure cooker

Ingredients

800 g old cucumber
500 g pork ribs
1 tbsp bitter almonds
3 tbsp sweet almonds
4 pcs dried scallops
8 pcs red dates
1600 ml water
1 tsp salt - or to taste

Instructions

Scrub the skin of the old cucumber clean and cut it in half, length-wise and scoop out the seeds with a metal spoon. Cut old cucumber with skin intact (prevent the flesh from turning mushy after cooking) into chunks and set aside.
Blanch the pork ribs in boiling water for a few minutes to remove the scum bits. Rinse the pork ribs and drain well, set aside.
Rinse the dry ingredients and drain well. Then place everything in the pressure cooker and start cooking! (about 45 mins). Then season with 1 teaspoon of salt or to taste.