Chayote, Chestnut, Carrot, and Lean Pork Soup
A naturally sweet Cantonese slow-cooked soup of chayote, chestnuts, carrot, figs, apricot kernels, and lean pork, needing no salt thanks to its gentle, honeyed, chestnut-sweet flavor.
Instructions
- 1
Wash the chayote, cut it in half, remove the seeds, and cut it into small pieces.
- 2
Peel the carrots and cut them into pieces.
- 3
Clean the northern and southern apricot kernels.
- 4
Cut the fig in half to release its flavor.
- 5
Blanch the lean meat.
- 6
Wash the chestnuts. (I used frozen peeled chestnuts.)
- 7
Put all the ingredients into the electric pressure cooker and press the soup button to start cooking.
- 8
It's done cooking.
- 9
No need to add salt; this soup is very naturally sweet.
- 10
Cools and soothes internal heat, strengthens and nourishes the body.
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Ingredients
Main Ingredients
- Chayote3 piece
- Carrot2 stick
- Chestnut200g
- Fig6-7 pieces
- Lean meat500g
- Southern apricot5g
- Northern apricot5g