Traditional Tonkinese soup recipe

This healthy recipe of soup, a vegetarian and gluten-free tonkinese the grain box is perfectly adaptable to the paleo diet. Discover our new creation among our healthy recipes!

Ingredients for the Tonkinese soup recipe

Bouillon (sauce) ingredients

To make a soup broth in just a few minutes, make sure you have all of these ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons of oil for cooking (30ml)
• 1 yellow onion cut into quarters
• 10 cups of water
• 2 whole cloves of garlic
• 5 cm sliced fresh ginger
• 10 whole cloves
• 5 anise stars
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• ¼ cup of tamari (60ml)
• ¼ cup of traditional miso (60ml)
• 1 sprig of basil
• 2 tablespoons of Turbinado raw cane sugar (30ml)

Toppings

• 2 cups Chinese cabbage, sliced into strips (500 ml)
• 2 carrots, grated lengthwise
• 1 package shiitake mushrooms whole or cut into strips
• rice noodles (replace with konjac noodles for paleo version)

Accompaniments

• Free-range chicken eggs or quail eggs
• Sprouted soybeans
• Lime wedges
• Chopped green onions
• Jalapeno
• Hoisin Sauce
• Fresh herbs including: basil, Thai basil, mint, coriander, shiso
• Optional: imitation meat (vegetable) or meat (chicken, beef, pork, seafood, lamb, beef, duck) for those who can't do without it. Chicken is generally very popular, as is beef.

Preparing soup meal

1. In a large pot, heat the cooking oil and brown the onion for the soup.
2. Then add the water and all the ingredients that complete the broth. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes. (This step can be done in the slow cooker for 4 hours which gives more flavor or in the pressure cooker under the broth function)
3. Drain the broth so that only the liquid remains.
4. Add the strips of cabbage and carrots, shiitake mushrooms, rice noodles. Continue cooking for 10 minutes.
5. Serve the soup in wide-mouthed containers.
6. Top with some suggested accompaniments, including sprouted soy beans, eggs, Hoisin sauce and fresh herbs.

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To the soup!

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Naturopaths from La Boite à Grains

Team of qualified and certified naturopaths (ND) in Gatineau in Outaouais.

Original article written by Véronique Cousineau, Naturopath