Old Cucumber Soup with IONA Purple Clay Slow Cooker

Old cucumber soup is a slow cooked Cantonese soup recipe. After simmering at low heat for a couple of hours, the old cucumber will turn really soft and flavorful. The health benefits includes high dietary fiber, iron, calcium and anti-ageing properties. The nutritional benefits of red dates gives natural sweetness to the soup. While dried scallops and oysters add a hint of saltiness.

Ingredients:

•             250g Pork Bones
•             6g Ginger
•             8 dried Scallops
•             1 old Cucumber (seeds removed)
•             3 dried Oyster
•             4 Red Dates (seeds removed)
•             2L Water
•             1 tbsp of Gogi Berries

Instructions:

•             Bring a pot of water to boil and blanch pork bones with ginger.
•             Add water, old cucumber, red dates, gogi berries, dried scallops and dried oysters into a slow cooker pot.
•             Set to high heat and bring to a boil, then lower heat to low.
•             Allow it to simmer for 90 minutes before serving.