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Dried Radish Leaves and Pork Ribs Soup (菜干排骨汤)

Dried Radish Leaves and Pork Ribs Soup (菜干排骨汤)

Posted on August 5, 2008December 28, 2022 by PatriCa BB 雪冰

Dried Radish Leaves and Pork Ribs Soup (菜干排骨汤)

“Grandma’s recipe of wholesome soup, with quick cooking method”

We used to drink this wholesome soup when young, cooked by both grandma and mother. Not something really special, but it’s a nourishing soup. With the use of dried radish leaves (大头菜干), it supposed to help in reducing body heat as “cooling effect”. It’s also high in nutritional values.

Dried radish leave is a preserved food using drying and salting processes. In Cantonese, it pronounced as “Dai Tou Choy”. It’s not the same kind of root vegetable which we used to cook “Mui Choy” (梅菜), it’s different.

This ingredient is easily found in most Chinese grocery stores or any supermarkets such as NTUC Fairprice, and Giant Hypermarket, and places like Chinatown. It is normally pre-packed, and one packet of palm-sized radish leaves should be sufficient for 4 – 6 servings.

This soup tastes fine salty, natural sweet, and fresh in the palate. A rich-bodied soup reminiscent of old time flavor. It’s kinda complicated to explain. You have to try it, to like it.

One thing you do not have to worry, the soup is definitely light, and agreeable pleasant!

My Wok Life Cooking Blog Dried Radish Leaves and Pork Ribs Soup (菜干排骨汤)Ingredients
1 piece of dried radish with leaves (Chinese translation: 大头菜干)
300 gram of meaty pork ribs
1 piece of dried cuttlefish, washed
6 – 8 pieces of red dates, washed
1 pot of water, 50% filled (about 1500ml)

Method
1) Steep dried radish with leaves in a pot of clean water, for 15 – 20 min.

2) Blanch pork ribs. Set aside.

3) Boil a pot of water over high heat. Add in pork ribs, radish with leaves, dried cuttlefish and red dates, when water boiled.

4) Bring it to a boil again. Cover pot with lid, slightly tilted. Reduce heat to low fire, and simmer for 2 hours, or until ingredients are tender, and soup is fully flavoured. Serve hot.

That’s simple to prepare. Tasty and healthy!

The soup counts about 120kcal per bowl. Relatively low calorie, with the use of lean pork meat.

Tips: Taste your soup after 1 hour simmering time. In case the radish is soaked for too-long, and became too bland for the soup, no worries, add one chicken stock cube to taste. On the other hand, if the soup is salty enough, remove radish from soup, or stop boiling immediately.
*The radish taproot is normally more salty than the leaves part. So, steep mainly the radish taproot rather than leaves, to extract excessive salt from it.

Tags: PorkVegetables
Category: RecipeSoup

7 thoughts on “Dried Radish Leaves and Pork Ribs Soup (菜干排骨汤)”

  1. noobcook says:
    August 5, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    I have never heard of this veg but it sounds really good – will look for it at ntuc next time. Thanks for visiting my blog – I’m glad to find your blog! :)

    Reply
  2. PatriCa BB says:
    August 6, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Hi noobcook,

    I’ll suggest you to try neughbourhood grocery shops for first time purchase as there will be someone (the shop owner) for you to ask and clarify with. Otherwise, you might find it puzzle to figure out by your own at supermarket. It looks similar to “mei cai” (梅菜).

    Thanks and happy trying!

    Reply
  3. noobcook says:
    August 6, 2008 at 11:55 am

    Thanks for your advice … I’ll definitely keep a look out … I think I will really like this soup ;)

    Reply
  4. Anonymous says:
    February 21, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    How does one prepare boiled radish leaves. They are dried and packaged by Wang? It is a l lb , 16 oz , 453 g bag

    Anyone have a vegetarian recipe for this?

    Reply
  5. Anonymous says:
    February 21, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    Anyone have a vegetarian recipe for boiled radish leaves? No meat , fish or eggs, but something nutritious would be appreciated. The leaves have been dried and packaged by Wang. It is a 16 0z, (1lb) 453 g bag.

    Reply
  6. PatriCa BB says:
    February 22, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    Hi,

    I am not sure how to prepare boiled radish leaves here… So sorry..

    Reply
  7. PatriCa BB says:
    February 22, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    Hi,

    I am not sure which is Wang? It that a brand to it?

    If it is also dried marinated kind of radish leaves, perhaps you may steep it before boiling. Then, stir fried it with some mock meat. Add sambal chili, if you prefer something spicy. Just an idea.

    Hope it is helpful. :)

    Reply

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