Tasty Tomato Soup

This humble dish is quite a classic.  The ingredients are readily available in most local supermarket without specially trip down the Asian grocers.  The method is simple and the down-to-earth flavour make this dish such a delight.


The following next 3 weeks I will use this basic ingredients to show the various dishes can stem-out from this recipe alone.


Enjoy and bon apetite!!!


4 medium size tomatoes – quartered
1 medium brown onion – chopped
1 Chinese sausage or Italian sweet sausage – sliced
1 egg – lightly beaten

Chopped coriander or continental parsley for garnish
2tbsp oil
Hot water

Method: 

1. Heat oil in wok or pot.  Fried the onion and sausage until onion is soft.
2. Then pour in over half litre of hot water and add in the tomatoes.  Bring to boil for 2 mins.
3. Turn the heat off then quickly stir in the egg.  Serve hot with some rice.

It is a simple soup to relieve Liver Yang Rising manifest as mild hypertension, or a hot day causing heat dizziness.
 

Functions and Benefits:

1. Tomatoes – clears heat, tones yin, produces fluid, and quenches thirst.
2. Onion – benefits and regulates Qi.
3. Sweet sausage – sweetness of the sausage help tones the Middle Burner and the meat helps tone Qi and Blood; an appetent.
4. Egg – lubricates Dryness, tones Yin.
5. Coriander/parsley – aromatic and regulate Qi.

Precautions and Contraindication:

1. Sausage can be omitted and replaced with sweeten tofu, e.g. 2 pc of Inari (Japanese sweet fried tofu pocket).
2. Chinese sausage or Italian sweet sausages are greasy and fattening.  Excess consumption is not recommended.  Excess Damp/ Damp-Heat Accumulation in Zangfu consume cautiously.
3. This is not a staple dish.  Consume daily is NOT recommended.  However by omitting meat and egg, you will end up with a very basic and simple stock.

If you have any doubt or want to know more about this recipe, contact your TCM practitioner or myself.

Thank you for reading.

Kenny Law
Australia Registered TCM Practitioner.
DISCLAIMER:
Information given are purely for references and it is not intent to diagnose medical conditions or to be used for self-diagnosed. Always consult medical health personnel for proper medical diagnosis.

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