Soup Recipe 2 - Green Papaya with Pork Trotters Soup

Good for boosting milk production

Preparation Time: 1¼ hour

Cooking time: 2½ hours (1 hour using pressure cooker)

Source of ingredients: Chinese grocery store, Chinese butcher

Ingredients

• 1 Pork trotter (ask your butcher to chopped it into chunks)

• 200g Green papaya

• 2 Red dates

• ½ Cup of soy beans

• 3 Slice of ginger

• 3 Stalks of spring onions.

• Water

• Salt to taste

Steps:

1. Soak soybeans for 1 hour. Discard water.

2. Remove seeds from the red dates, and chop into small pieces. Set aside.

3. Remove the skin and seeds from green papaya. Then chop into small chunks.

4. Blanch pork trotters in boiling water for 10 minutes to remove impurities. Rinse and set aside.

5. Place trotters, red dates, soy beans, ginger and spring onions into a cooking pot.

6. Add 1.5 litres of water, or until the water covers the trotters.

7. Bring the soup to boil. Then simmer on medium-low for 45 minutes. Check water level regularly and add hot water if the water level runs low.

8. Add papaya chunks and cook further for 20 minutes until papaya is fully soft and the pork meat is falling off the bone.

9. Season with salt to taste.

Pressure cooking.

If you use a pressure cooker, follow instructions step 1 to 4 as above, then:

5. Place the trotter, red dates, soy beans, ginger and spring onion in the pressure cooker. Add water to halfway mark of the pot, or just covering the bones.

6. Boil the soup using high pressure for 35 mins.

7. Depressurise the cooker. Add papaya chunks and cook on high pressure for another 15 mins.

8. Season with salt to taste.