Maolin Hu (Savory Nut Paste Soup)

Name: Maolin Hu (Savory Nut Paste Soup)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Ingredients: to taste beef or pork bones; to taste meat offal or trimmings; to taste peanut, walnut, or melon seed kernels (ground); to taste eggs; to taste kudzu starch or bracken root starch; to taste shiitake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots; to taste scallion, ginger, and cilantro (for aroma)

A traditional specialty from the Maolin region of Anhui, made with pork bone broth thickened with dried-fruit starch.

2h 20m

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Ingredients

beef or pork bones to taste

meat offal or trimmings to taste

peanut, walnut, or melon seed kernels (ground) to taste

eggs to taste

kudzu starch or bracken root starch to taste

shiitake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots to taste

scallion, ginger, and cilantro (for aroma) to taste

Instructions

Simmer the bones

First, simmer the meat and bones over low heat until very tender, remove the bones, then add the shiitake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots and simmer again.

Mix the thickening slurry

Stir in the ground walnuts, chestnuts, or peanuts, beat in the eggs, and finally pour in the kudzu starch or bracken root starch while stirring to form a smooth slurry.