Soup Broth

  1. Chicken / Pork Stock

Note: Hengboi consume 1/4 cup of rice for lunch and dinner combined. This recipe yield broth to cook 4 servings x 1/4 rice (4 days worth of meals)

Ingredients:

  • 4-6 chicken breast bones / boneless chicken thigh
  • or / and 500g Pork Soft Bone
  • Chicken feet (collagen)
  • 2 carrots roughly chopped
  • 2 onions roughly chopped
  • 2 celery roughly chopped
  • 2 corn
  • Ginger

Instructions:

  • Blanch chicken bones and chicken feets in a pot of boiling water. Rinse under running water thereafter. 
  • Blanch pork bones in a pot of boiling water twice, for about 30 minutes. Give pork bones a good scrub to remove all residues.
  • Combine ingredients in a large pot (at least 5L) and fill water till it cover ingredients by an inch of water (~ 8 cups of water)
  • Bring to a boil over high heat and then reduce heat to a gentle simmer for 2-3 hours (30 minutes if using thermal cooker), skimming fat off of surface every so often.
  • If transferring to thermal cooker, bring to full boil again so that the trapped heat will be high to continue cooking
  • Strain or use a soup bag
  • For baby: Fill ice cube tray or baby storage tray and freeze immediately (~ 3 months) or keep in fridge for up to 4 days
  • Collagen in bone will be cooled down to gel which will dissolves once reheat. You can control sodium content for home made stock

2. Ikan Bilis Soup Base 

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup of ikan bilis
  • 3 pieces of dried scallop

Instructions:

  • Soak ikan bilis and dried scallop for 30 minutes
  • Fry Ikan Bilis and scallop
  • Combine ingredient in soup bag (optional). Bring to a boil over high heat and then reduce heat to a gentle simmer for 30 minutes
  • Strain