Adzuki, Cashew & Lotus Root Soup

Why people make this soup

In winters past, Nourilo’s family loved making “glutinous-rice lotus root” — soaked sticky rice packed into the holes of a lotus root, sealed with a toothpick and simmered with red dates and brown sugar until sweet and rosy. Beautiful, but fiddly. This soup gives you the same complexion-loving, blood-nourishing idea with none of the fuss: lotus root, adzuki beans, cashews and red dates, all simmered together into a clear, sweet pot.