3 Carrots Soup

One interesting trivium about this soup - apparently my sister-in-law always makes 2 carrots soup only because my brother always never gets it right with buying the "green carrot". He always ends up with 2 radish instead. Why? Because he never tried asking the stall owner for the green carrots even if he cannot tell it apart from the radish! Unlike me, cuz I frequent the wet market so rarely, even the stall owner recognise me as the ultra blur one and will offer me assistance no matter how busy they are.

This soup was passed down by my family - either my ma-jie or my mum, but the purpose of this soup is to "detox" your body from "gas poisoning" from eating food cooked over a gas stove.

It's quite a simple recipe - 3 carrots refer to 3 types of carrots - white carrots (radish), green carrots (no idea) and the normal orange coloured carrot. Peel and dice the carrots and cook with meat (i normally use pork). The soup will sweet enough without the need of adding salt or any MSG. I suppose you could boil it for 2 hours over low heat over a gas stove but I normally make soups with my slow cooker (crockpot), set it on Auto Mode and leave it for on for half a day, or if I am working, the whole day while I'm at work.

Today I used about 1.3L of water (4.33 bowls of water) with 1 large radish, 2 small green carrots and 2 normal carrots. I think I probably used about *scratch* 300g to 400g of pork? Not sure about it's about $4 worth of pork from the wet market.

Good thing about not using salt - I took some of the carrots and pork and mashed it up as treat for Rascal.