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Tom Yam Soup is a sour and hot soup with distinctive characteristics in Thailand and Laos. Also known as Dongyan soup (in Chinese), it is very common in Thailand. The main ingredients are lemon leaves, citronella, shrimp and so on. Well, expect to taste Tom Yam Soup cooked by yourself? I will teach you about recipe. In Thai restaurants or home of commoners, they often drink this soup, thus becoming the representative of Thai cuisine. It is also very popular in other Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

Brief of Tom Yam Soup

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Another condiment is fish sauce, which is similar to soy sauce, also known as fish soy sauce. It is a common condiment in Guangdong, Fujian and other places in China. It is a common aquatic condiment in Fujian, Chaozhou and Southeast Asian cuisine. It originated in Fujian and Chaoshan, Guangdong and other places. It was spread from early overseas Chinese to Vietnam and other East Asian countries. The spicy soup comes from Thai Chaotian pepper, one of the hottest peppers in the world. Other condiments include curry sauce, lemon grass, shrimp sauce, fish sauce and so on, from mild to extremely hot.

Materials

1.5 tbsp of Tom Yam Sauce, fresh prawns, fresh straw mushrooms, ginger, citronella grass, green lemon, mint leaves, fragrant leaves, red pepper, fish sauce, olive oil, coconut milk, a little salt.

Today, let us know how to cook about Pumpkin soup. This is very simple cuisine with easy way, however it will send you warm and nutrition in the winter. The most of amateurs and fans of cooking would like to cook some soups and porridge such as pumpkin soup, cream porridge and so on. When you work whole day, then back home to taste one bowl of pumpkin soup cooked by own. That is really wonderful feeling! Well, here we go, recipe of pumpkin soup is below,

Nutrition of Food Material

Polysaccharides

Pumpkin polysaccharide is a non-specific immunopotentiator, which can improve the immune function of the body, promote the production of cytokines, and play a variety of regulatory functions on the immune system by activating complements.

Carotenoids

The abundant carotenoids in pumpkin can be converted into vitamin A with important physiological functions in vivo, which plays an important physiological role in the growth and differentiation of epithelial tissue, maintaining normal vision and promoting bone development.

Mineral elements

Pumpkin is rich in cobalt, and the amount of cobalt in all kinds of vegetables ranks first. Cobalt can activate human metabolism, promote hematopoietic function, and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B12 in human body. It is a necessary trace element for human islet cells.

Amino acids

Pumpkin contains a variety of amino acids needed by the human body including lysine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, threonine and other high content.

Detoxification

Pumpkin contains vitamins and pectin, the pectin has good adsorb-ability, can bind and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body such as lead, mercury and radioactive elements in heavy metals, play a detoxification role.

Ingredients

Pumpkin, proper

Unsalted butter, proper

Peas, 4pieces

Sugar, 2Gram

Directions

1 Prepare pumpkin, then peel the skin of pumpkin and wash it as well.

2 Prepare a steamer and put enough water into the steamer, heat the water till boiled.

3 Put the pumpkin into the steamer which we have provided with boiled water.

4 When the pumpkin is cooked as steaming, take out it from steamer and prepare for next step.

5 Chop the cooked pumpkin, and then prepare juicer or juice extractor.

6 Put the pumpkin chopped into the juicer till it becomes pumpkin mash.

7 Continue last method till the pumpkin mash becomes pumpkin batter, then pour out all of pumpkin batter, adding some unsalted butter, sugar.

8 Prepare saucepan, then heat the pumpkin batter through saucepan with low heat, certainly, keep to stir evenly.

9 well, now you may pour the pumpkin soup into bowl and enjoy your result. Certainly, you may garnish some peas on the soup, artistic and delicious.

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Cooking time now, by this time let me introduce one flavor as European Noodle Recipe. Its name is Beef Spaghetti with red wine. According this cuisine name you may know main material of cuisine is about noodle, beef and red wine. Perhaps you feel hungry now, well, do not waste time and let me introduce you this delicious cooking way so that you could try it at home or for the party time with your friends.

Nutrition and Advantage

Actually, this cuisine is very simple and easy to cook and contain enough nutrition inside. Beef is rich in protein and amino acids. Its composition is more close to human needs than pork, improving the body’s disease resistance, especially suitable for children of growing development, and the patients of post-operation and aftercare in the supplement of blood loss and repair of tissue.

About red wine, there are also many advantage for the people when you drink it properly. Red wine has anti-aging effects; it also can improve the content of human healthy cholesterol so that blood flow to the brain more smoothly; it contains phenolic substances, vitamin C, vitamin E and carotene which these substances have antioxidant effect, which can enhance the proportion of high-quality cholesterol in the body, which maintain the normal metabolism of the human body so that the body will not become bloated with age; A moderate amount of red wine every day may strengthen the bones.

Main Materials

Spaghetti 200g,

Beef 100g,

Onion 50g,

White Mushrooms 50g,

Ingredients

200ml Red wine,

1 tablespoon Cooking wine,

2 tablespoons Soy sauce,

1 tablespoon Oyster sauce,

4 tablespoons Tomato sauce,

2 tablespoons Starch,

1/2 tablespoon Baking soda,

1 piece of Egg white,

Proper salt, pepper powder, olive oil, butter,

Directions

1. To Slice Beef then put into bowl, adding cooking wine, Oyster sauce, egg white with proper salt starch, soda. Mix these ingredients with beef together for around 1 hour.
2. To prepare onion, white mushrooms then to slice them.
3. To immerse Spaghetti into water for at least 5 minutes (this way may help Spaghetti more soft and easily cook in the saucepan)
4. To put the olive oil into the Saute Pan, and then heat the oil; the beef slices prepared put into saute pan, then fried till brown color.
5. Medium fire to melt butter by this time, then fried the onion slices till aroma.
6. To put the beef, mushrooms with onions together, then fried.
7. To pour into 4 tablespoons tomato sauces, 1 tablespoon soya sauce and 1 tablespoon cooking wine, then stir and mix with beef, mushrooms and onions together.
8. About Spaghetti, to boil it in the saucepan with proper olive oil, salt. When spaghetti is without hard core, then drain the spaghetti by strainer.
9. To prepare the saucepan again then put the beef, spaghetti into the saucepan together. Next as pour into 200ml red win and 300ml water then mix together, averagely stir these materials.
10. To boil the materials by medium heat, after that change to low heat for extra half hour.
11. Finally your beef spaghetti with red wine is finished after watery sauces almost dry.

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