Red Beauty Soup

Name: Red Beauty Soup
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 (about half of 500 g) Napa cabbage heart (washed, cut into ~5 cm segments, blanched in boiling water); 8 Red dates; 1/2 cup Milk; 1 Egg (beaten into egg ribbons)

Hongyan (Rosy Complexion) Soup

Simmer red dates to make a broth, then add milk, Napa cabbage hearts, and eggs, cooking until all ingredients are fully done. This dish is traditionally believed to provide benefits of nourishing blood, promoting a healthy, radiant complexion, and moisturizing the skin.

45 min

Easy

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Ingredients

Napa cabbage heart (washed, cut into ~5 cm segments, blanched in boiling water) 2 (about half of 500 g)

Red dates 8

Milk 1/2 cup

Egg (beaten into egg ribbons) 1

Instructions

Prepare the cabbage

Wash the cabbage hearts and cut into about 5 cm long segments. Blanch them in boiling water, then remove and set aside.

Simmer the broth

Add the red dates together with two bowls of water and simmer for half an hour.

Finish the soup

When only one bowl of liquid remains, add the ingredients. Once it boils again, add the cabbage hearts. When it comes back to a boil, pour in the beaten egg and use chopsticks to quickly stir it into fine egg ribbons. Serve immediately.