Gobo Gouqi and Fiddlehead Fern Glass Noodle Soup [牛蒡枸杞蕨菜粉丝汤]

Special ingredients:

Gobo [牛蒡]: greater burdock root, good for cancer prevention and control.

Gouqi [枸杞]: also known as Chinese wolfberry, or goji berry.

Fiddlehead fern glass noodle [蕨菜粉丝]: thin glass noodles made of a mix of fiddlehead fern powder and flour.

Other ingredients: Daikon, Carrot, Black mushroom, Ginger root, Cilantro, vegetable broth

How to prepare:

  • shred half of a daikon, 1/5 of a carrot (for color)
  • slice a handful of gobo and a half of the ginger root
  • coarsely chop up the cilantro

How to make the soup:

  1. In a medium size pot, boil a mix of vegetable broth and water (about 1:2)
  2. Put the gobo slices and fiddlehead fern glass noodles into the boiled soup base
  3. In a cooking pan, put a little canola oil, drop the ginger slices into the hot pan, then the daikon and carrot shreds together with some freshly ground black pepper. Stir for a few minutes till the smell of the daikon comes out, then add some water and pout the mixture into the soup base
  4. Add black mushroom and gouqi
  5. Let the soup simmer for a few minutes, turn off the stove, and add chopped cilantro to garnish (no need to add other seasonings)

Super natural, super nutritional, and super simple!

牛蒡枸杞蕨菜粉丝汤

牛蒡枸杞蕨菜粉丝汤