How to Cook Beef Soup to Blast Flu

By: Mary Ann Bolanos

Services 3 persons

Ingredients

Beef Shank 1 piece or sirloin for 15 minutes soup cooking.

Diced Onions 3 bulbs

Chopped Garlic: 1 bulb (half of the garlic bulb will be sauteed till golden brown)

Julienne Cut Ginger

Small Onion leaves cut into small pieces

Carrots diced (1 piece)

American Chili (cut into small square pieces)

Salt

Pepper

lemon grass thoroughly cleaned

3 pieces of tomatoes - diced - do not include the seeds.

Procedure

1. Boil beef shank in pressure cooker in 7 cups of water, 7 pinches of salt and 3 pinches of pepper. 

Add 1 bulb of diced onions and 1/2 bulb of fresh garlic. Cooking time is usually 20 to 30 minutes. 

If you like your beef shank really soft, it will take you to cook 1.5 hours.

Otherwise use sirloin for fast cooking 15 minutes only. Boil beef till tender. 

2. When the beef is tender and cooked, add in lemon grass, boil for 3 minutes. 

Take out lemon grass to avoid over cooking the lemon grass flavor. 

3. Add in ginger, then boil for another 5 minutes only. 

4. Add in carrots, another 5 minutes

5. Add in American chili (red and green - buy none spicy)

6. Add in 3 pieces of tomatoes diced while roller boiling

7. Add in onion leaves or leeks while the soup is super hot. 

Serve with golden brown garlic sauteed in virgin coconut oil*  

boiled brown rice and calamansi cut into halves for squeezing.

Drinks/Aperitif: Buko Juice (no sugar) or calamansi juice. 

                              Mineral water (try to drink 1.5 pitchers to 2 pitchers)

You may request a viand from the furnished apartments in Novaliches at an affordable price if you are staying in one of the furnished vacation rentals in Novaliches. 

* Virgin Coconut Oil in the Philippines is available at online store 

delivery within Quezon City at  + 639228824296 

or within the Philippines and NCR through courier,

same number.

* Virgin Coconut Oil is available in North Luzon Philippines in

big orders of 12 pieces or more at +639328807128

at 250 ml bottles and 980 ml bottles.

* Lemon Grass is always available in the market, or if you stay at the furnished
vacation rentals in Novaliches, an organic lemon grass is available at Manay's
home farm at super affordable price.

* Lemon Grass is added to the soup, to facilitate relaxation and sleep. You may
opt to have a lemon grass tea with squeezed 2 calamansi fruit and honey. Served
chilled.

* A virgin coconut oil aromatherapy oil is recommended. You may choose
peppermint or lavender to relax the muscles. If the child is sick, moms usually
gives a baby massage at the chest, back and the feet to keep the child warm.
After some time the child getting sleepy.

If unfortunately you are the one who is sick... you may do a self
massage or if you have a chair massage this is great. Then after a few minutes
you will feel drowsy and take advantage to sleep and rest.