Showing posts with label soups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soups. Show all posts

Thursday, February 8, 2024

WInter Bean soups - 3 soups in one

 




See video of its making

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmvM9ruTenE


Ingredients

black beans
white beans
red beans
onions
my spice combo (optional)
paprika
tumeric
black pepper
salt at end - serving
Cumin
Coriander seeds grounded
Tomato paste/can tomatoes
veggies roots; optional 
celery is nice optional 
coriander/parsely is nice  optional 
can take out in end
Tip leave in bunch - snip at end for looks
Kishkah (Amos) not the meat just regular kishkah in the oven from frozen
Fantastic added to bean soup. 
Bake two goes fast!!

Optional serve with boil egg

Don't add potatoes / yams - will not freeze good

Post-soak beans overnight at least or take out of freezer post soaked

soften chopped onions
add spices
add beans
add water
add tomato paste
add veggies accordingly to softness desired
cook for hours till soft

Meat broth

Clean and roast bones till brown in oven
Pour bones and oil into a separate pot 
add water to the brim of the pot and cook lowest heat for ages till meat falls off the bone
add onion  - optional
add bay leaf - optional
Can make over night cooking 


vegan version
spoon some bean soup in separate pot and add:

shitakke mushrooms whole is great for beans vegan soup
chestnuts 
puffy tofu

continue to cook - may add shitakke liquid for flavour
add my spice combo optional -taste to check if need

above will give the bite and needed texture when meat is absent.

ALways taste each pot adjust seasoning.
I add salt only at the end of cooking, just enough, so that even at the table there could be still more space for adding salt.
"Less is more"

serving
using the main bean soup as base. 
scoop into bowl.
options:
add meat or just the broth or just a few bites of meat 
can really customised just how much meat you'd like to eat right now
or just flavour? then just the broth!


No meat?
Vegan
No problem scoop in the bean soup - base
add from shitake overnight soaked. keep liquid its gold use for soups, gravies, sauces
Or and add tofu/chestnut pot how ever much you want.
really mix and match.

enjoy

This recipe/dish is one of those that fill the whole house is smelling of a warm cozy home
Minimum work. 15 mins max of arranging.
Hours on the stove. Aroma therapy. 
Comfort food at its essence.










Thursday, January 2, 2020

Chinese dumplings

So Pretty


Ready for cooking! or freezing!

Love the colours!  So GREEN.
Green here is from spinach, could use green onions (very aromatic) garlic chives, celery! Anything green and fresh, just be mindful of the aroma it will impart.

Classic white dough.

Natural colouring: Beetroot



 
Amazing colour!

Straight in the freezer.  Before there's a chance of being gobbled up.
Ready for that inevitable late night at work.  Tired and hungry.  15 minutes in boiling water. Replenished!


So simple. Soooo good!



Crazy naturally coloured dough. Love it!

Beautiful and so much fun.

Classic meat filling.



 
Classic dumplings. These can be steamed, in a soup or fried/broiled, even deep fried to crispy deliciousness.


Two colours wontons!


Love the colours! Soooo pretty!

Ready for steaming.  Everyone's hungry!


Chubeza season Yay!! Lovely lovely greens!!

Delicious baby young chubeza leaves


Good wash.  Ready for cooking. Super nutritious 
"Highly nutritious. The plant is exceptionally rich in vitamins A, B, and C, along with calcium, magnesium, and potassium. The tender young leaves actually have one of the highest amounts of vitamin A in any vegetable!"








Vegan - packed with protein, super delicious filling.






 
This lot for the freezer.  Investing when after a long day at work, I just gotta have some hot comforting Chinese dumplings. 20 minutes from the moment I walk in the door to hot steamy bowl on the table. Yes!!




Gluten Free wrappers!! Mixed with hot water.





These GF babies come out translucent, light as a feather and packed with punch.
Wonderful texture, deep flavour and bursting with nutritious protein. Vega-neli-cious!


This is vegan.  With freshly picked chubezah
Insanely delicious!


Notes:
GF/Hot-water dumplings:
Keep corn flour and potato flour ratio (Using corn flour and rice flour yielded a dough closer to Cheung fun)

1/2 cup of boiling water Add corn flour first.  Cool slightly.  Add 1 tsp of veg oil. Mix.  Then potato flour. Knead mix all to a ball.  Rest 10 mins.

 
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