Chinese ABC soup or just ABC soup I called it. This time my wife recipe and she cook it, I just take my sweet time taking notes and photo beside 😁

A lot option to cook this soup, I guess her version is more focus of vegetables but not the core ingredients or more like a strip down version or should call it light/basic.

Let’s cook!

Ingredients;

• Carrot 2pcs
• Corn 2pcs
• Tomato 5pcs or more
• Potato few pcs (as u like)
• Pickled Mustard “榨菜/Ja Choi” 1pcs
• White pepper 20gm or a little hunch (depends)
• Pork meat “Gjang” 500gm (u may always replace with other meats as u like)

Preparations;

Pickled Mustard “榨菜/Ja Choi”

wash it

remove carrot skin

cut into small pieces

cut both into small pieces like this

remove corn skin

cut into small pieces

cut size like this

wash and cut tomatoes

cut as in pictures

remove potatoes skin

cut potatoes

cut into small pieces

white pepper

put into tea bag

close teabag to avoid it comes out during boil process

put potatoes in pot (does not not matter who goes in first)

put tomatoes

put ja choi and carrot

put corn

put white pepper

Gjang meat

remember fei sui process? do it then wash and clean

put Gjang in pot

ok, all in and full fire 🔥

About an hour the soup is ready. Most ingredients is soft vegetables, so don’t need to boil too long. It’s afternoon now, I will just switch off the fire and leave this soup till my evening dinner.

Heating up for my dinner

Gjang pork meat

Pickled Mustard “榨菜/Ja Choi”

Luck is on my day! The veggies are so sweet! Corn, carrot & potatoes taste so good and so sweet till flavors up the soup base. This doesn’t taste as usual stock soup, is very refreshing sweet veggies taste added with mid sour and light saltiness from the Pickled Mustard “榨菜/Ja Choi” just nice. And lastly, the white pepper provides peppery flavor in your mouth is just wonderful!

It just fulfilled my hunger to the fullest, very satisfying, all I can tell.

Same with my other soup post, no salt and seasoning. MOST important in this soup is the perfect combination of sweet and sour is wrapped with saltiness of Pickled Mustard “榨菜/Ja Choi” and peppery of white pepper.

Ingredients selection is very important, thou I don’t have complete control of it. Hope I will manage to source better quality ingredients thru information and experience in future.

I have to end this post with a word “Satisfying“, I just felt my dinner is truly complete.