My Mom’s Soup

I like soup, especially the soup that my mom always makes for us at home when I was a kid. This soup serve with steam rice, potato balls and fried onion or sometimes in my country there are ‘krupuk’=crispy chips from tapioca flour. This soup is also easy to cook if you are a beginner, the only things if you want to serve it together with potato balls and fried onion just need more time for the preparations; the soup itself not more then 45 minutes, if using chicken less then that. Ok, here are the ingredients:

Meat 1/2 kg can be chicken or beef

A cup of frozen sweet corn ( you can add more if you like)

3-4 pieces carrots

6 pieces potatoes

Cabbage

2 pieces onion leaves

1-2 pieces tomatoes

2 pieces big Red onions or 4-6 pieces small

1 tea spoon Coriander powder

1-2 pieces Nutmeg

Salt

Pepper

2 eggs

Sun flower/corn oil for fried

Water

The preparations:

For the carrots; clean all the skin and slice it round and small

For potato; clean all the skin and slices it into 4-6 pieces

The onion leaves; slices into small and thin for serving and long cut for boiling

The cabbage; cut it into small pieces, anyway you like to eat it

Red onion; slice thin for fried to be crispy

Tomatoes; cut it into small pieces

the soup with fried onion

The Soup

First you have to prepare the water until its starting to boil then put in the meat or chicken, for meat don’t cut it into small pieces let it the big cut from butcher until its soft; we need the broth to make the soup taste nice. If you like you can use beef with some bone to have better taste, but if your husband don’t like the bones or fats better to get none fat meat from thigh. Anyway you prefer that better.

After the meat, insert Coriander powder, nutmeg, salt and pepper as you like.

Check the meat if it is done or not by cutting it; if it still red, then need to boil it more if not, then u can cut it into thin/small pieces to make your family easier to eat that.

After the meat ready, start to insert the carrots after 15-20 minutes, you can inserting the potato, then let it for a while until carrots and potato soft then insert  onion leaves, cabbages, corn and tomato and let it until boils again then its done

fried potato balls

Potato balls

Separate potato for the soup and the balls, either you steam it or boil it almost the same around 30-45 minutes; just boiling faster then steam but when you steam it the potato balls will be more crispy then boiling and not easily break. After the potato soft smash it until it really soft and start to mix it with pepper and salt if you like u can add oregano and olive oil, eggs and mixed it well; after mixed together then using spoon to make it round shape for fried then fried it until  brown color and crispy then lift it up and dry with kitchen paper.

Fried onion

Stir fry the onions with sauce pan until brown color then lift it up and dry it with kitchen paper.

It’s up to you prefer eat that with rice or bread, it’s always nice as long as serve together with fried onion and potato balls.

Give some comment after you try this. 

Thx & GBU