Fuyuan Soup
Fuyuan Soup (Restorative Herbal Mutton Soup) is a warming medicinal mutton soup formulated to tonify kidney yang, slow-stewed with Chinese yam, cistanche, dodder seeds, and other traditional Chinese medicinal ingredients.
Ingredients
Chinese yam (tied securely in a cheesecloth bag)
to taste
Cistanche (tied securely in a cheesecloth bag)
to taste
Dodder seed (tied securely in a cheesecloth bag)
to taste
Walnut kernels (tied securely in a cheesecloth bag)
2
Lean lamb (washed, blanched to remove blood, cut into 5 cm thick strips)
500 g
Lamb spine bone (chopped into several sections, washed with clean water)
1
Round-grained rice
100 g
Scallion white (cut into sections)
3
Ginger (smashed)
to taste
Sichuan peppercorns
to taste
Star anise
to taste
Cooking wine
to taste
Ground white pepper
to taste
Salt
to taste
Instructions
1
Ingredient pre-processing
Chop the lamb spine bone into several sections and wash with clean water; wash the lean lamb, blanch to remove blood, then wash again and cut into 5 cm thick strips; tie the Chinese yam, Cistanche, dodder seed, and walnut kernels securely in a cheesecloth bag; smash the ginger; cut the scallion into sections.
2
Stewing
Place the medicinal ingredients and food ingredients into an earthenware pot, add an appropriate amount of clean water, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam; add Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, and cooking wine, then switch to low heat and continue simmering until the meat is tender.
3
Seasoning
Remove from the pot into a serving bowl, add ground white pepper and salt to taste, and serve immediately.
