Carp Soup With Papaya Recipe

This Cantonese-inspired post-natal dish is suitable to be consumed start from first week of confinement. It stimulates lactation and speeds up postpartum recovery especially for the woman who undergo caesarian.

Choose a half-ripe papaya in order to get a clean soup. Ripe papaya tends to crumble into fine threads and produce cloudy soup.

Ingredients :

• 700g papaya

• 1 carp (Shang Yu in Cantonese)

• 10g ginger

• 1 tbsp water
  
  Chinese Herbs :

• 20g Astragalus's Root (Huang Qi)

• 10 pcs red dates

• 5g Ligusticum wallichii (Chuan Qiong)

Method :

1. Cut the flesh of papaya into big chunks, boil with herbs and water, then simmer in low heat for 15 minutes. (picture 2-4)

2. Scale and clean the fish, cut into two big chunks, add to the soup and cook until done, then season with salt. (picture 5-6)

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