Five-Color Mixed Bean and Lean Pork Soup

Why people make this soup

Nourilo picked up a couple of bags of five-color kidney beans at a farmers’ fair and threw in a few more beans of different colors to make a hearty pot of soup with lean pork. In Chinese food-therapy thinking, a bowl built from many colors of beans is a simple way to give the whole body a little support — it is filling, nourishing, and the kind of thing a family can drink any day.

Method

1. Soak the mixed beans in water for 1 hour, then pour off the soaking water.
2. Soak the tangerine peel until soft; blanch the lean pork briefly to clean it.
3. Put everything in a pot with about 2.4 L of water.
4. Cook for about 2 hours, reducing to 1.2–1.5 L. Drink the soup and eat the ingredients.

Nourilo’s Tips

Discarding the soaking water keeps the soup clean. If you have a child with favism, leave out the large broad-bean-like beans from the five-color mix to be safe.