Crab soup recipe

Ingredients

* crab meat (shredded)
* 4 pcs scallop ( cube)
* 2 can chicken stock
* 2 tbsp rice wine
* 1 egg (beat)
* 4 pcs dry mushroom (chopped)
* white pepper
* 2 tbsp sesame oil
* corn starch ( for thicken)
* scallion ( fine chopped)
* Black vinegar (optional)

Method

• In a pot, bring chicken stock to boil
• Add mushroom,crab meat, scallop, rice wine, pepper and let it simmer
• Add beaten egg while stiring the soup
• Mix corn starch with a little bit water and pour into soup and stir continuously
• Last add sesame oil, stir
• Serve with chopped scallion on top and black vinegar

* since the chicken stock contain ginger and salt, no need to add any spice.

Chicken With Ginger & Wine Recipe

This Cantonese-inspired post-natal dish can be consumed starting from first week of confinement period. It protects stomach, promotes blood circulation, helps to ward off coldness and dispels "wind" in the body.

Kampong chicken is leaner and the flesh is firmer, choose only the female chicken as this helps to dispel postpartum "wind" more effectively from abdomen and nourishes the body after childbirth.

Ingredients :

• 1 whole kampong chicken (cut into small pieces)

• 300g ginger (juliennes)

• 4 tbsp sesame oil

• 20g black fungus (soaked and shredded)
  
  Seasoning :

• 1 bowl rice wine

• 1 bowl ginger wine

• 2 tbsp soy sauce

Method :

1. Blanch the chicken pieces with boiling water, rinse under running tap water.

2. Pre-fry the shredded black fungus and set aside.

3. Heat sesame oil in a wok and sauté the ginger until golden brown, then add in black fungus and chicken. Stir-fry briskly, pour in ¾ cup of water and simmer with lid on for 10 minutes.

4. Add seasoning and bring to boil, then serve hot.

Credit: http://www.101healthyeasyfoodrecipes.com/healthy-easy-traditional-chinese-confinement-food-recipes/cantonese-chicken-with-ginger-and-wine-recipe.php

Pork Trotters Soup

Confinement Recipe Ingredients

• 300g pork trotters
• 200g peanuts
• 600g papaya
• 100g ginger

Confinement Food Cooking Method

1. Rinse and scaled the pork trotters. Cut them into pieces.
2. Put all ingredients into a pot. Add water and cook for 2 hours. Season with salt.
3. Serve hot.

Mutton Soup with Dang Gui

Confinement Recipe Ingredients

• 20g Dang Gui
• 20g Dried Longans
• 15g Ginger
• 250g Mutton
• 3 cups boiling water

Confinement Food Cooking Method

1. Rinse and scald the mutton, dried longans and Dang Gui.
2. Put all ingredients into a stewing pot.
3. Stew for 3 hours.
4. Season with salt
5. Serve hot.

credit: http://www.todaysmotherhood.com/2009/10/confinement-recipe-mutton-soup-dang-gu/

Pork Ribs in Ginger Soup

Ingredients:

4-5 strips ribs bone (chop 2-3 inch each)

2 carrot ( peel and cut 2 inch )

3-4 inch fresh old ginger (peel and sliced)

1 tbsp ground white pepper

salt to taste

3 liter water for soup

For Garnishing:

1 stalk scallion ( wash and cut small)

Method:

1:Boil some water in medium stock pot, bring to a boil ,add in cut ribs and cook for 1 minutes. Skim and discard the scum from the surface ,or strain the ribs under running water to remove the fats,set aside.

2:Prepare a medium stock pot with 3 liter water at high heat,bring to boil,add in sliced ginger and cut ribs.Reduce the heat to medium,cover the pot with lid,cook for 30 minutes,then add in carrot.Cook for another 15 minutes or longer,add in ground pepper and salt to taste.

3:Remove from heat .Dish out in a bowl,sprinkle with cut scallion and serve warm.

Note:

You can replace pork with Beef or Chicken for this soup.

Wonton Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

Wontons:
wonton skins
ground pork
chopped prawn
minced garlic
chopped scallion
sesame oil
chili flakes
salt & pepper

Soup:
chicken stock
piece of ginger
onion, quartered
peppercorns
soy sauce
fish sauce
yu choy, blanched
rings of scallion

Method:

1. For the broth, put all ingredients in soup pot except for yu choy and scallion. Simmer for an hour and strain.
2. Once you've wrapped up your wontons, bring a pot of water to a boil. Drop wontons in. When they float to the surface and the prawn looks really pink, drain them and set aside.
3. To serve your soup, place some wontons in a bowl along with some blanched yu choy and scallion. Ladle in the boiling broth and serve.