Nourishing Soup for Post-natal Mothers

Ingredients (serve 4)

Mutton
350g
Hockhua’s Eight Treasures
1 pack
Yin-nourishing Soup Pack
Lotus root
400g
Ginger
2 slices
Few pepper seeds
Shaoxing wine
1 tablespoon

Methods

  1. Wash and cut mutton into portions before boiling to remove smell.
  2. Cut and remove both sides of lotus root and cut the rest into slices. Add cooked mutton, ginger slices, pepper seeds and Shaoxing wine, along with Hockhua ‘Eight Treasures Yin-nourishing Soup’. Simmer for 1 hour before serving.

Mutton can replenish qi and blood. Lotus root is rich in calcium and iron. Suitable for post-natal mothers.