Time : 3 hour
Serving : 4 ~ 6 persons
Lotus root with peanuts is one of my favourite soups.
Lotus root and peanuts go well as soup  It was fragrant and natural sweetness. This soup is healthy and beneficial especially hot weather.


Ingredients
480grams of Lotus Root, cleaned, peeled and sliced.
 200 grams of Pork Ribs, scalded
 4 to 5 dried scallops (干贝)
60 grams of dried peanuts
5 pcs of pitted Red Date (大枣/红枣)
1/2 honey date/ 蜜枣
1gm of Wolfberries (枸杞) (Optional)
2 gm of Liquorice Root (甘草)
1/2 ~ 1 pcs of Dried Octopus.
3000ml water
1 tsp  Sea Salt
1 tsp Sugar
Ground white pepper

Preparation:
(1) Soak the peanuts overnight to remove skin before use
(2) Soak dried scallops for 3 hr and reserve water for broth.
(3) Soak the  Octopus in hot water  and cut into small strips
(4) Scrub to clean lotus root and slice to thin slice.
(5) Rinse and cut  red dates in half. (remove seed if not pitted)

Method:
(1) Wash and cut the pork ribs into small pieces and marinate with 1tsp of salt , sugar and corn flour for 1 ~ 3 hrs. Boiled water and scald in boiling water for awhile  This to remove removes the porky smell so that soup will be taste better.
(2) Change water and boiled 3000ml water with  scald pork ribs.
(3) When boiling , add all ingredients into a claypot  and let it boil for 30mins
Lower the fire and simmer for 1-2 hours until the flavour is absorbed
(4) Finally, add salt and sugar according to taste
(5) Remove floating oil ( if any ) before serving.