There is a famous soup called ABC Soup which is essentially a combination of cubed potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and onions cooked in meat stock (usually pork or chicken). After my posting on Hot and Sour Szechuan Vegetable Soup recently, Tummythoz, girlgirl and tekko informed me that they add carrots and even corn into the soup. That was new to me.

So, when I went home to my mum's place last night, I was most surprised to see a bowl of Szechuan Vegetable Soup which has carrots, onions and potatoes in it! It is indeed a marriage of the Hot and Spicy Szechuan Vegetable Soup with the famed ABC Soup! And true enough, it has the hot and sourness of the szechuan vegetables and the sweetness of the ABC soup. I shall call it the A B C D Soup then!

It is another one of those simple-to-cook yet appetising soup which is great on a cold weathered day!

This is the recipe for A B C D Soup.


Ingredients

• 200 to 300 grammes of meat (pork ribs or suitable cuts or chicken parts)
• 2 medium sized potatoes (washed, skin removed and cubed in big chunks)
• 1 carrot (cut in big pieces)
• 2 large tomatoes (quartered)
  
• 2 large onions (quartered)
• 1 piece szechuan vegetable (washed and sliced)
• 2 bowls of water (approximately 800 ml to 1 litre)

Method

Bring water to boil. Add meat and let water reboil. Remove layer of scum from surface of water.

Add the rest of the ingredients, bring to boil again for 5 minutes and then lower heat to simmer for at least 1 hour or longer.

You don't really need to add any seasoning to this soup as the various ingredients will impart its taste.


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