Healthy Vegetarian Arrow Root with Corn Soup

*dust away all the cob webs*

Hello! Gosh... it has been a long time since I update this blog! Well, life has certainly been busy  since my little girl is very mobile now... so I have to chase after her most of the time! I don't cook many fancy dishes since I conceived as I have to rush through each afternoon before meal time. And since my little girl is eating what we are eating now, most of the dishes has to be non-spicy. It is either steamed fish/chicken or just soup most of the time.

We normally have lotus roots or corn soup since most of us like the taste and they are extremely easy to prepare. I will add more ingredients such as honey dates or almonds to make it more nutritional... like what I am sharing today... a very simple vegetarian soup which is full of flavors but less the cholesterol.

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Ingredients

• ½ section Arrow root (about 300g)


• 2 ears Corn


• 3-4 sticks Carrots


• 8-10 Water chestnuts


• 100g Groundnuts


• 3-4 pcs Honey dates


• 5-8 pcs Red dates (optional)


• 2.5L Water

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Method

1. Heat up water in a deep pot. Remove the arrow root's skin and slice it into ½ inch thick and toss into the pot quickly to avoid it from turning brown.


2. Cut corns into small sections and carrots into cubes.


3. Clean the water chestnuts (cut away the top and bottom) but keep the skin on. Use a clever and smack it lightly so it will crack up.


4. In separate smaller pot, boil the groundnuts with some water to remove dirt and colors.


5. Toss everything into the pot and let it boil before turning the heat into small to slowly boil for 2 hours.