Friday, October 1, 2010

Pork Bones Herbal Soup and Noodles (Bihun/kueh teow) Recipe

I bought some nice pork soft bones from a butcher at the wet market. Instead of boiling it plain as soup for my bihun (rice vermicelli) and Kueh Teow (flat rice noddles), I added some Chinese herbs into the soup. The herbal soup for my noodles turned out quite tasty. For some extra kick, I ate it with bird eye chilli in light soya sauce.

Ingredients
Pork bones, 600gms
Water, 8 bowls
Yoke Chuk (polygonatum root, Polygonatum odoratum), 8 pcs
Wolfberries (kei chi), 10 pcs
Salt to taste
Romaine lettuce, 10 pcs or more
Garlic, 5 pcs, chopped finely and fried until crispy Bihun (rice vermicelli), for 5 servings, blanched in hot water
Kueh Teow, for 5 servings, blanched in hot water

Pour water into a pot and bring to a boil. Add pork bones, yoke chok and wolfberries. Boil until the meat on the pork bones turned tender. Add salt to taste. Pour soup over both noodles. Garnish with fried garlic and romaine lettuce.

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

Herbal soup broth with vermicelli is great. I like it with chicken meat.

willie a.k.a reptoz said...

Nyummy!

jen cheung said...

yummy! I like Chinese Herbal soup lah - it just tastes better hor. I miss drinking these. Thanks for the recipe - it will be handy when I move out with my husband :) will always look at your blog to learn!

its FRIDAY! Have a lovely weekend!
jen @ www.passion4food.ca

Reanaclaire said...

very healthy mihoon soup... have a nice weekend Pete.. really long time no see u around..

Alice Law said...

Very healthy!^-^

Christine said...

yep, this is going on my list to try

tuti said...

wah, nutritious and good.
the kids' brains are going to be so strong for studies! :)

Somewhere in Singapore said...

The soup and vermicelli looks good...

suituapui said...

Nice... Normally, I would eat the soup with mee sua, not mihun, kway teow or noodles.

smallkucing said...

Like STP's ones. Kakakaka

Looks good. Ngum for me who is lazy to cook :p

will cook this one of these days

Cooking Gallery said...

Those are just my types of food! Very comforting and yummy :)!!

Ayie said...

Soups are very good if you're feeling under the weather.

I AM A BLOGGER said...

omg, u r the true chef dad~~~^^

Mummy Moon said...

Never try this before, herbal soup base with mihun, good try!

Aunty Liew said...

Herbal soup my favourite!Should try your method too for easy lunch

xin said...

u know what? when i cook instant noodles, i will add some chili padi and it instantly tastes 20x better!

mNhL said...

my mum would love these.

fufu said...

yeah i always have my leftover soup with udon when i was in japan :)

Annie Q said...

Oww..this is good, i like!!