Potatoes, Carrots, Tomatoes and Pork Rib Soup (马铃薯萝卜蕃茄排骨汤)

This is one of the traditional Chinese soup and pretty easy to cook too.  Can ask your kids to help out in the preparation, so let get started !!!

Ingredients :-
马铃薯，萝卜，蕃茄，排骨，洋葱
Potatoes, Carrots, Tomatoes are the main essential ingredients.  The three of them can make soup already but to add further taste to the soup, I use Pork Ribs and Onions.  All these can be easily purchased in the supermarket.  The quantity will depend how big pot the soup you wish to cook.  For me, 3 Potatoes, 2 Carrots, 2 Tomatoes, 1 packet of Pork Ribs and a small bulb of Onion will be enough to make a soup to serve 5 to 6 persons.

Cooking instruction :- 
1. Peel off the skin of the Potatoes and Carrots and that the part whereby you could ask your kids to help out.  With those knife specifically used to peel off skins, it will be quite safe for your kids to use it.

2. Next wash the skinless Potatoes and Carrots and cut them into pieces.  1 Potatoes can be cut into 4 portions, 1 Carrot can be cut into 6 pieces and that are the just nice sizes for them.

3. Wash the Tomatoes and again cut them into pieces, 1 Tomatoes can be cut into 4 portions and that size is just nice.

4. For the Onions, peel off the skin, wash it and then cut into slices.  Well the purpose of the Onion is not to eat but to add some taste to the soup and in fact after boiled, the Onion probably dissolve into the soup already.

5. Wash the Pork Ribs and the boil a pot of water, a mid-size pot with 85% of the water filled and together with the above quantity of ingredients will be just nice for 5 to 6 person share and not diluting the taste away.

6.  When the pot of water boils, put in the Pork Ribs first and once you see the Pork Ribs are cooked, put in the rest of the ingredients.  Cover up the pot and lower down the fire and let it boils for minimum 3 hours.

7.  Once done, you can see the Potatoes and Carrots are soften, the Tomatoes and Onions look dissolve in the soup and the Pork Ribs is absolutely cooked. Get ready to serve !!!!

This soup will smell nice and a bit of the sweet taste and for this probably is the best method to let your kids to eat the Potatoes, Carrots and Tomatoes which they normally don't like to.  Ok Daddies, give yourself and the kids who helped out a Hi-5 for making this soup !!!