Mung Bean Soup

It's raining almost everyday here in Baguio City. It would be comforting to eat hot soup these days. So be it, Mung Bean Soup for the kids this afternoon.
Ingredients:
  • 100g sotanghon(mung bean noodles)soaked and cut in 10cm long
  • 2 tablespoons canola oil
  • 4 cloves garlic chopped
  • 1 medium onion chopped
  • 200g  boiled chicken breast
  • 2 liters chicken stock
  • 2 dried shitake mushrooms soaked and cut into strips
  • 100g carrots julienned
  • fish sauce (patis) to taste
  • pepper
  • 2 teaspoons anatto powder
  • 100g wombok, sliced

-Heat canola oil in a large casserole and saute garlic, onion and chicken.
-Add chicken stock, fish sauce, pepper and anatto powder.
-Bring to boil.
-Add sotanghon, carrots, and shitake mushrooms, cook for 3-5 minutes.
-Lastly drop wombok and cook for 1 minute more.
-Serve hot.

Enjoy!
Usually it's the woodear mushroom and not shitake mushroom that's used in this recipe. 


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