Nourishing Softshell Turtles Hot Pot Recipe

Name: Nourishing Softshell Turtles Hot Pot Recipe
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: softshell turtles: 1; chicken: 1/2; green onions: 1; ginger: 1; bone soup: 6 bowls; Codonopsis pilosula (Dangshen): 1; goji: 1 tablespoon; red dates: 10; vegetable oil: 2 tablespoons; beer: 1 bowl; salt: 1 teaspoon; sugar: 1 teaspoon; white pepper powder: 1/2 teaspoon; light soy sauce: 1 tablespoon

Features:

Cuisine:

China

Softshell turtles & chicken soup are the best for dietary therapy in Chinese medicine. To make meaty turtle soup, we blanched softshell turtle in 80-degree water to keep fresh and remove bad taste. And then, fried and added fine-tuned herbal ingredients that make soup has a strong meaty flavor. You would also feel a light sweet taste as the delicate finishing touch.

105 minutes
Serves 2
Easy

Ingredients

1 softshell turtles
1/2 chicken
1 green onions
1 ginger
6 bowls bone soup
1 Codonopsis pilosula (Dangshen)
1 tablespoon goji
10 red dates
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 bowl beer
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon white pepper powder
1 tablespoon light soy sauce

Directions

Tips

1. Softshell turtle’s gallbladder is a nutritional supplement for our body. Chinese medicine believes it can effectively improve our body’s immune system.

2. The gallbladder is a little bit bitter. But its taste can be covered by adding more white pepper powder and beer. Or discard it if you desire.

3. Blanch the meat in 80-degree water to remove bad taste, keep the nutrition and prevent overcooked. 100 degree boiling water enables its nutrition to dissolve into the soup.

Steps

1 Done 5 minutes	Cut off the head of softshell turtles. Remove blood and separate shell and body.
2 Done 5 minutes	Remove and discard the internal organs of the softshell turtles. Keep the gallbladder which is in the middle of the liver. Set aside.
3 Done 5 minutes	Rinse and remove the blood. Put softshell turtle into 80-degree water. Blanch for 3 minutes to remove bad smell and taste.
4 Done 5 minutes	Remove from hot water and tear off the black film which is on softshell turtle shell and its body. Then cut into pieces, wash, set aside.
5 Done 5 minutes	Wash and chop the chicken into pieces. Wash and cut the scallion into strips. Cut ginger into slices. Set aside.
6 Done 5 minutes	Add oil to the pot and stir-fry scallion and ginger slices until fragrant. Then add softshell turtle and chicken pieces to stir-fry until medium-well.
7 Done 5 minutes	Add beer, soup, Codonopsis pilosula (Dangshen) and stir well.
8 Done 60 minutes	Add turtle’s gallbladder into the pot. Mix well. After that, add salt, sugar, white pepper powder, light soy sauce to stew for 60 minutes.
9 Done 10 minutes	After stewing, top with Goji and red dates. Stir well and stew for another 10 minutes. Serve hot.