Madam Chua’s DELICIOUS HEALTHY RECIPES/videos
The lovely Mdme Chua on the left who is a lady that’s very caring, very helpful and quietly feeds everyone….I’ve known her for 18 years now. She is pictured here with her daughter Su Ming who is the dedicated head of Kechara Care Dept…
Below are recipes and videos that will be updated from time-to-time. Madam Chua, who is Su Ming‘s mother, is used to cooking food with meat as she brought up her 3 kids. People started to realize how good her vegetarian cooking is when she started cooking a variety of vegetarian food every Wednesday. They would be available at Kechara Care, and people can come and eat and donate as they wish. This was her way in supporting her daughter who heads that department.
I have asked her to share with the ladrang staff on how to cook her nutritious and very delicious vegetarian soup. They are very, very good for your body.
There will also be other simple vegetarian videos and recipes that will be shared, from my students and friends.
I thank Mdm Chuah so much for sharing her culinary skills. I love her soups so much.
Tsem Rinpoche
1. Lotus Root, Potato and Peanut soup
Ingredients:
- 3 cups peanuts
- 10 water chestnuts
- 10 dried figs
- 5 honey dates
- 10 red dates
- 1 handful wolfberries
- 3 large potatoes
- 6″inch lotus root or more
- Seasoning stock
- 1″inch piece of Rock sugar
- 3/4 tbs salt
- Water 4 litres
- 1 pack vegetarian chicken
Method:
- Soak peanuts 3-4hrs
- Potatoes chopped chunky and lotus root sliced set aside
- Wash all other ingredients drain and put in a large pot. Add water and bring to a boil
- Lower heat, add Potatoes and lotus root and simmer for 1-2hrs
- Add salt and seasoning stock to taste. Serve piping hot
Soup benefits:
- Good for internal organs, Good for eyes (wolfberries)
- Good for low blood, stamina, circulation (red dates)
- Good for cooling the body (water chestnuts)
2. White Radish, Peanut and Carrot Soup
Ingredients:
- Dried chestnut x 10
- Peanuts x 1 cup
- Red dates x 10
- Honey dates x 3
- Tim chok x 5
- Wolf berry x 1 handful
- Raddish x 2
- Carrot x 2
- Seasoning stock to taste
- Rock sugar to taste
- Salt to taste
- Water 4 litres
- Vegetarian chicken nuggets
Method:
- Wash 1-6, add to a pot of water and bring to a boil
- Cut 7-8 into chunks and add to the soup. Boil soup for 45 minutes
- Add 9-11 to taste
- Optional : Fry the vegetarian chicken nuggets until browned. Add to soup when served
- Serve the soup hot
Soup Benefits:
- Raddish – High in potassium which is helpful in regulating blood pressure, lowers cholesterol
- Carrot – Prevent heart disease and cancer, improves eyesight
- Wolf berries – enhance our eye sight, detox our liver, improve the liver function and immune system
- Red dates – strengthen the functions of heart and lung, invigorate the spleen and stomach, nourishes the blood
3. Old cucumber and tofu Soup
Ingredients:
- Old cucumber x2 large 10inch
- Chinese salted vegetable x3 pieces diced
- Red dates x1/2cup
- Honey dates x8
- Wolf berries x 1/2cup
- Tofu x7blocks cut into cubes
- Stock to taste
Methods:
- Wash all ingredients add to pot of water and bring to a boil. Season with stock to taste
- Add Tofu 20mins before serving
- No need to add salt but can depending on your taste
Soup Benefits:
- Cools body heat – Old yellow cucumber (Loh Wong Kua)
- Enhance our eye sight, detox our liver, improve the liver function and immune system (Wolf berries)
- Strengthen the functions of heart and lung, invigorate the spleen and stomach, nourishes the blood (Red dates)
4. Corn carrot potato chestnut soup
Ingredients:
- Gingko x 1cup
- Wolfberries x1/2cup
- Sweet Herb / tim chok x 1/2cup
- Honey dates x8
- Red dates x 1/2cup
- Dried chestnut x 1.5cups
- Water chestnut x12
- Carrot x4
- Potato x4
- Corn x4
- Chicken nuggets 250g
- Water 5L
- Salt
- Stock seasoning
Method:
- Wash all ingredients well and add to a pot with water
- Bring to a boil then add carrots, potato, corn simmer for 2hrs
- Season with rock sugar and salt. Serve piping hot
- Optional extra: fry the vegetarian chicken nuggets until browned
Soup Benefits:
- Regulate blood flow and promote general longevity (Gingko biloba)
- Enhance our eye sight, detox our liver, improve the liver function and immune system (Wolf berries)
- Strengthen the functions of heart and lung, invigorate the spleen and stomach, nourishes the blood (Red dates)
- Prevent heart risks and provides energy (Chestnuts)
- Cooling down body heat (Water chestnuts)
5. Seaweed, Winter Melon, Chickpeas and Black fungus Soup
Ingredients:
- Winter melon x 1/2
- Red dates x ½ cup
- Honey dates x 8 pcs
- Wolfberries x ½ cup
- Chickpeas 500g
- Black fungus (dry) x 1cup soak in water and remove hard parts
- Tofu x 2 large blocks cut into cubes
- Celery to be added to soup when ready
- Seaweed to be added to soup when ready
- Rock sugar to taste
- Stock seasoning to taste
- Salt to taste
- Water 4L
- Optional : vegetarian chicken or mutton pan fried and added to soup when ready
Method:
- Wash 2-6 above, add to pot of water, bring to a boil
- Add cut winter melons and then simmer for 1 ½ hours
- Add 10-12 to taste
- Add 8, 9 and 14. Serve hot
Soup benefits:
- Cools body heat (Winter melon)
- Enhance our eye sight, detox our liver, improve the liver function and immune system (Wolf berries)
- Strengthen the functions of heart and lung, invigorate the spleen and stomach, nourishes the blood (Red dates)
- Lower cholesterol in the body, prevents heart attacks and diabetes, repaires the body tissue (Seaweed)
Myself giving a hug with Mdme Chua who is so motherly to so many in Kechara…I appreciate her very much.
Watch the videos and learn how to make these very simple yet very nourishing soups… good luck…
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Thank you Rinpoche and Mrs Chuah for sharing this wonderful and nutritious herbal herbal soup. I have always been a great fan of herbal soup influenced by my beloved grandmother who used to pamper us with her wonderful wide variety of herbal soup. Thank you blog team for sharing this👍😍🙏💕
谢谢Mrs chuah 的无私的分享，在KH 的人没有不试过Mrs Chuah 的加哩料理，大家都托Mrs Chuah 的福常常都有美味的晚餐。真心谢谢Mrs Chuah 为了让我们吃的好一点，不辞劳苦把晚餐煮好还亲自送来KH，见到我们就叮咛我们到厨房用餐。真心谢谢她。感恩。
Mrs Chuah is still feeding us. On Mondays (English Setrap puja day)and Wednesdays (Medicine Buddha puja day), she would bring her soups and other dishes to the Kechara Gompa. After eating, one can make a small donation to Kechara House as a token of appreciation. Through the kindness of Mrs Chuah, Kechara receives donations and Kechara staff get good nutritious food.
Dear Rinpoche,
Mrs Chuah’s soups and foods are really really simple and yet there are so delicious……. Her soups are not just healthy but also yummy.
Most people think that healthy food always taste the worst but what I have come to realize is that Mrs Chuah’s soups are healthy yet nice and yummy to drink!
Also Thank you Mrs Chuah for always cooking your out of this world dishes as well as thank you for sharing some of your soup recipes with all of us!
Love
Jutika
Wonderful! Its so nice to have more and more new recipe’s for vegetarian food in Malaysia should have more places for vegetarian food. And with more different types of these foods, there is a higher chance of having more people turning themselves into a vegetarian. And that is what really matters 🙂
Dear Rinpoche, I didn’t know that Madam Chua is such a great cook. She can cook so many good vegetarian food. You don’t need to have meat in your food to make it taste better, most of the vegetarian food taste very good too.
Madam Chuah is really an excellent chef and always wants to make sure that everyone around her has enough to eat and drink. For the past couple of weeks now, the team and volunteers at KFR are the lucky recipients of Madam Chuah’s lovely vegetarian food. She cooks at home and always brings food up to KFR for the team here. This is just one example of how caring she is. And the food is delicious too!
If you would like to taste Madam Chuah’s food, every Monday pay a visit to Kechara’s Lounge, just beside our Gompa. Weekly on Monday, Kechara provides a vegetarian dinner that is open to everyone at Kechara Lounge (http://www.kechara.com/support/contact/). Just make a donation and help yourself!
Mrs Chuah’s soup is definitely awesome. If love has a taste, this is it!
She cooks them over charcoal which is very traditional and takes lotssss of effort and patience. She uses natural healthy ingredients including organic seaweed for additional taste. It’s not easy to make vegetarian soup tasty but she got it right. Thanks Mrs Chuah for feeding us always!
Oh no, I love soup! Especially peanut lotus soup and radish soup, my favorite!
I have the merits to taste Mrs Chuah’s soup and thanks for the videos, will try other soup one day! Hehe/
I LOVE Madam Chua’s food. She can really cook! I tried her cooking when I was in Kechara Lounge last time and her soup was SUPERB! I wanted to drink the whole pot. LOL.. Thank you Madam Chua for your delicious recipes…
Mrs Chuah is a dear lady. Has been fortunate enough to taste some of her delicious soups at Kechara. I had used her soup recipes recently and even my sons enjoyed them and that must be tasty!
Thank you Mrs Chuah for sharing these soup recipes with us.
On one Monday someone told me about food available at the lounge, “it is cooked by Madam Chuah, Su Ming’s mum”. I was like Wow, she gave her time and effort to support KC by cooking diner. Everyone can enjoy it.
Dear Madam Chua thank you for giving Kechara your daughter and supporting her in dharma work. It is only now I have had a chance to work along side Su Ming in Bangkok and she is quite fun to work with and has a never say die attitude. We are having a great time in BKK ladrang!
One of my favourite things to eat is Chinese soups because like Rinpoche said, they’re really nutritious. Unlike Western soups, the point of Chinese soups is to provide nourishment quickly using a specific combination of ingredients which are prized for their medicinal properties…you can’t really say the same for cream of mushroom, can you? 😉 Chinese soups are also light but filling. People always say that you can’t make vegetarian Chinese soups but Mdm Chuah proves otherwise!
@Old cucumber and tofu Soup: please always keep pot handles facing inward so someone don’t accidentally knock it over 😀
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mrs chuah is super awesomes!love your vegeterian otak-otak!!! and everything which you cook! xoxoxoxoxoxox
Mdm Chua has always loved to cook and she used to bring food over to KPSS2 for the volunteers and staffs there. Mdm Chua not only makes nourishing herbal soup, but she also cooked delicious vegetarian curries and noodles which I had the chance to taste on a wednesday night in Kechara Care. It was a long time since I had home cooked food and it was so delicious and yummy.
Managed to grab a bowl of soup yesterday in KC… yummy!
Wow! That’s a long list of recipe…haha. Plus it’s written in made-easy format with videos!!! Gotta love considerate ppl 😉
Mrs. Chua or Mdm Chua as she has been affectionately called by all Kecharians is like a big Mama. No doubt her cooking is very nice. Every one in Kechara looks forward to her fried rice, tom yam dishes and fried noodles every week on wednesday to taste her food before Medicine Buddha Puja. Mrs Chua has been a friend and student of Rinpoche since 1992. It was then that I got to know her. She came to see Rinpoche for consultation when her husband was sick during which time I was assisting Rinpoche. When her husband passed away she lost touch with Rinpoche and now she is back with Rinpoche again.
I haven’t had Chinese soup for a loooong time, thinking they couldn’t possibly be made without meat…but Mdm Chuah’s are GOOD and you’ll never miss the meat. Try and get to the pot before me because after me, there’ll be none left! Mwahahahaha
Mrs Chuah has been feeding so many of us even before Kechara Care was setup and ready. Her soups are not only very very good and yummy, there are other dishes that she makes which is wonderful. I am so happy that Mrs Chuah is now sharing the recipes with all of us because that means i can share it with my family too. May Mrs Chuah, Su Ming and everyone in their family be blessed always by the Buddhas. Much love and gratitude.
Okay this is why I was telling Justin Ripley that he should make a cookbook. I know these are not Justin’s recipe’s, but I love the way that the food is connected in the description, to how it influences/benefits the mind, as well as the body. I really think a Kechara Cookbook should be put to a vote! I’ll buy the first 10.
Thanks
-Josh Akers
Yes, i fully agree with Josh to do a compilation of the vegetarian recipes from the Kecharian members and Justin. I will give my support to purchase the books too. Yes, Mrs Chua’s vegetarian food is so delicious and nutrition. Her vegetarian curry is So Penang authetic style of curry taste. My children loves her vegetarian food, and thanks Mrs Chua for sharing yr recipes, as now i can cook a good nutrition vegetarian soup for my kids….yahoo!
Thank you Mrs/Mdm Chuah for your recipes. Also, for those who yearn good home-cooked food by Mrs Chuah and these nourishing soup, you can hop by Kechara Care every Wednesday before Medicine Buddha Puja (8pm) to umm umm (eat)!
Just make a small donation to Kechara Care for providing the nutritious, delicious, healthy food… yum!