Six Combination Soup (Lok Mei Soup) – Liu Wei Tang
Discover and combine your own six Chinese dried herbs for this nutritious and classic Six Combination Soup, popularly known as “Lok Mei Tong”.
Keyword : liu wei tang, lok mei tong, six combination soup
Ingredients
- 4 pieces Chinese yam / wei san / huai shan
- 20 pieces Solomon’s seal rhizome / yok chok / yu zhu
- ¼ cup lotus seeds / lian zi (20g)
- ¼ cup lily bulbs / bai he (20g)
- ¼ cup fox nuts / qian shi (20g)
- ¼ cup dried longan / long yan rou (20g)
- 6 cups water (1500 ml)
- 8 oz lean pork ribs (cut into pieces) (225g)
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Rinse and soak dried herbs for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Bring water to a boil. Add pork ribs and allow it to boil gently over medium heat for 15 minutes. Skim off scum rising to the surface.
- Add drained herbs. When it comes back up to a boil, add salt. Reduce heat to the lowest possible setting so that soup will simmer very gently for 1½ to 2 hours. A gentle simmer will produce a clear soup.
- Turn off heat and serve warm.
Nutrition
Calories: 192kcal
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