Lily Bulb and Turtle Soup

Name: Lily Bulb and Turtle Soup
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Ingredients: 250 g turtle meat (blanched and cleaned); 50 g lily bulbs (separated into petals, cleaned); 10 red dates (pitted); to taste chicken broth; 5 g shredded scallion; 10 g shredded ginger; 15 ml cooking wine; 8 g salt; 2 g chicken bouillon; 3 g sugar

A nourishing soup simmered with turtle meat, lily bulbs, and red dates as the main ingredients, traditionally valued for replenishing yin and moistening the lungs.

50 min

Easy

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Ingredients

turtle meat (blanched and cleaned) 250 g

lily bulbs (separated into petals, cleaned) 50 g

red dates (pitted) 10

chicken broth to taste

shredded scallion 5 g

shredded ginger 10 g

cooking wine 15 ml

salt 8 g

chicken bouillon 2 g

sugar 3 g

Instructions

Prepare the ingredients

Tear the lily bulbs into individual petals and rinse them well; blanch the turtle meat thoroughly then rinse; pit the red dates.

Stir-fry and simmer the soup

Heat oil in a wok to about 50% hot, sauté the shredded scallion and ginger until fragrant, add the turtle meat and stir-fry briefly, then pour in the chicken broth along with the cooking wine, salt, sugar, lily bulbs, and red dates. Simmer together until the ingredients are fully cooked, then sprinkle in the chicken bouillon and serve.