SEAWEED PEPPER SOUP
Seaweed is a nutritious food, high in minerals and vitamins. We present here, a delicious soup of seaweed, chicken and mushroom, spiced with pepper. Serves 6.
Ingredients
800ml chicken stock
180gm shredded chicken meat
90gm shredded bamboo shoots
2 sheets seaweed (nori or similiar seaweed)
90gm shredded button mushrooms
90gm crab meat
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon sugar
white and black peppercorns, finely crushed
cornstarch
1 egg
Method
1. Put the chicken stock into a pot. Add in all the ingredients except the cornstarch and egg and bring to boil.
2. Thicken soup with cornstarch.
3. Turn off fire and add in lightly beaten egg. Stir to break up egg.
Pepper Vine
The plant is unisexual, with separate plants bearing male and female flowers. The berries are rounded and peppery and they turn from green to red.
Pepper Berries
Pepper is used in many Asian countries both as spice and a stimulant; to treat colic, rheumatism, headache, diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera and menstual pains; to remove excessive gas in the system; and to increase the flow of urine.
Pepper Farm
A typical pepper farm. Harvesting starts in April, reaches a peak in May and continues through to September.
Wild Pepper
This is an erect herb with long runners which develop into plantlets. Leaves are simple and heart shaped.The roots are used in chinese medicine to treat toothache. The leaves are used in Malaysia to treat headache and pains in the bones. In Indonesia, the rootlets are chewed with betel nut and the juice swallowed as a remedy for coughs and asthma.
