This Pepper Corn Soup
is popular among the Chinese.
Often times you can order this dish from a coffee shop
which offers simple stir fry dishes.
It is also one of the popular Confinement Food.
Pepper corn and ginger has been added to expel 'wind'
If you have a lot of bones left, be it chicken or pig's,
it can be used to cook this soup.
Why bones?
Pig's stomach needs long hours of cooking to soften,
and
bone needs long hours of cooking to extract the collagen & nutrients.
So, it is just nice to pair them this way.
Of course, if you love to have some meat in the soup,
add it when it is almost done!
There is no exact measurement as how much to put in the soup.
The 2 important ingredients:
pepper corns and ginger,
both smashed and added to give the extra ordinary taste of the dish!
To clean the Pig's stomach:
1. snip off all fats from the surface of the pig's stomach
2. turn the stomach inside out, wash away the slime under slow running water
3. use a knife to scrap off the remaining sticky substance
4. drain, add 2-3 Tbsp salt & scrub as you would scrub your kitchen towel with your hands
5. add 2-3 Tbsp tapioca starch or corn starch, continue rubbing & scrubbing
6. rinse off the sticky substance & repeat 4 & 5
7. rinse & put into boiling water, cover & turn off heat. Leave aside for 15min
8. can leave to cool or just add tap water to cool down
9. use a knife to scrape off any loose white skin
10. the pig's stomach is now ready for cooking.
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