Green Bean Soup 绿豆汤

Green Bean Soup - The magic soup to cool and detox your body.

I cooked Chicken Masala yesterday. I have never cook this before so I wonder will K like it. To my relief, he likes it very much and eat with thumbs up (yeah!). I never thought I can cook delicious Chicken Masala in the first attempt! (Thanks for the fresh chicken I got from Chatswood Westfield, as well as all the spices from Indian stoles in Paddy's market in Sydney CBD.) By the way, drumsticks in Sydney is really cheap, which is bout AU$3 per kg. I used to get 15 drumsticks at the cost of AU$6. So, you can cook the Chicken Masala with drumsticks.

The side-effect of the Chicken Masala is the heat. Because of all the spices (especially five spices and chilli), you might feel heat after consuming the Chicken Masala. Well for me it's all good and I like it, but it's not the case for K. He felt kind of headache after that. So, I decided to cook the magic soup for him - Green Bean Soup.

Green Bean is nutritious as any other beans; it contains iron, calcium, magnesium, vitamin A, C, B. In Chinese medicine, Green Bean Soup is used to detoxicate. Side note: If you ever watched Dae Jang Geum korean drama, you may be familiar with the scene where her poisoned mother was rescued by drinking something? It is the green bean soup.

The simplest way to cook green bean soup is: After cleaning, soak the green bean (about 50-60g for two persons) with water for an hour. Then pour the green bean (including the water) into a pot, add in extra water (roughly above the green bean for 1 inch or more), boil it for about an hour with low heat/flare. Add in rock sugar 2 minutes before serving and stir well.

There are many varieties of green bean soup, some people like to serve with ice cube/snow. Singaporeans like to add in sago, or dried orange peel, lotus seeds, gingko nuts. I personally like to add in few thin slice of ginger because it will make the soup no so cold for me as my hands/legs are always cold.

So, do you want to cook yourself a bowl?