Feb
28
2012

White Radish Soup Recipe

I was really knocked-out yesterday. The high fever coupled with flu and cough weakened me so much that I had to cancel my classes and just stay home to recuperate. I refused to see the doctor as I think this is just the normal fever, flu and cough.

I lost my appetite and all I could think of was how nice it is to have a bowl of hot soup in front of me then.

So last night before going to bed, I dumped all the vital ingredients of a good white radish soup into the slow cooker and let it simmer.

This morning when I woke up, the entire house smells of fart! That only means the white radish soup is ready! Yee… ha!

A bowl of hot soup ready to be consume. Bliss!

Here’s the recipe for Chinese White Radish Soup:

Ingredients:

* Chicken bones

* White Radish (Peeled and cut into chunks)

* Red Dates

* Carrot

* Peanut

* Water

Method:

1. Put water into a pot and bring to boil.

2. Add ingredients into pot.

3. Simmer

4. Season to taste

5. Serve hot

Here’s also the link to another of my favourite soup – Old Cucumber Soup.

P/S: So they say it is not advisable to cook RADISH and CARROT together. How true is this? Anybody knows the real reason for it?

Tags: Chinese food, soup

About the Author: Merryn Tan

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Nikel February 28, 2012 at 10:57 am

wah.. slurppppp

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sheohyan February 28, 2012 at 11:05 am

My kids love radish soup too, but I heard some said radish cannot mix with carrot. Don’t know how true it is.

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  Merryn February 28, 2012 at 11:29 am
  
  The believe is that the white radish will destroy the vitamin in the carrot. But heat itself will destroy the vitamin lah.. I add carrot as I like the taste :D
  
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  missyblurkit February 28, 2012 at 11:33 am
  
  heard about not mixing radish with regular carrots too. so i try not to cook it this way…
  
  when coughing, i avoid chicken. initially i thought was old wives’ tale until one fine coughing season, we actually abstained from chicken and voila…hubster and i recovered after 3 days only for it to return coz we ate chicken rice when we thought the cough was getting better. lol.
  
  this soup now makes me crave it too. gonna make some tonight for my breakfast too.
  
  ahem…the soup does no smell like fart! Merryn!!!
  
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    Merryn February 28, 2012 at 11:58 am
    
    Okay lor.. next time omit carrot from this soup lor.. sobs.. there goes my favourite carrot :(
    
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      missyblurkit February 28, 2012 at 12:08 pm
      
      ABC soup has carrots. or just pure carrot and sweet corn soup. yummeh! carrot and turnip (mangkuang) is also possible.
      
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Ann February 28, 2012 at 11:10 am

Get well soon!

Nothing like a nice warm bowl of home cooked soup. Thank God for the slowcooker. :)

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littlelamb February 28, 2012 at 11:16 am

Take care and get well soon =)

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Lvynana February 28, 2012 at 12:00 pm

Hmmm, i can smell it from here :)

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suituapui February 28, 2012 at 1:12 pm

Yummmmmm!!!! I like! But people say…mustn’t eat if on medication as it is a detoxifier and all the meds will be “washed” away.

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Alice February 28, 2012 at 3:00 pm

Try to boil celery with meat,heard its good for cough and flu too

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mnhl February 28, 2012 at 3:18 pm

Nothing beats homecook soup. So yummy. Hope you will get well soon. Take care.

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Kitty February 28, 2012 at 4:57 pm

Get well soon!

Thanks for the recipe…Looks yummy!

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FiSh February 28, 2012 at 8:00 pm

everything cooked in slow cooker is always good :)

Latest: Customizable Irish Sandwich

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Sui Ying February 29, 2012 at 9:01 am

Get well soon! :(

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Choi Yen February 29, 2012 at 10:40 am

Nutritious double-boiled soup as breakfast, nothing can beat this lah!

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Linda November 3, 2014 at 1:00 pm

Was searching for why cannot cook carrot with radish.. and your post show up. I was cooking soup with carrot and radish and my relative said cannot mixed them together…

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  Merryn November 3, 2014 at 2:07 pm
  
  I was told that the white radish will ‘cancel’ the nutrients from the carrot. It seems that white radish is detoxifying so we can’t take this while on medication or after a hearty ginseng meal either .
  
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