Red Vegetable Salted Egg Soup (红菜咸蛋汤)

If you happened to go to the supermarket or wet market and saw a vegetable with a red coloured stalk and you might be attracted to it and bought it.  Hey, daddy wait, before you get excited about it, I going to pour some cold water on you !  You would regret should you fry that vegetable.  Shock ?  Well, the fact is I have never ever came across anyone trying to fry that vegetable to eat.  Reason being, the taste !  (my 2 rabbits also not interested in eating this Red Vegetable) So you might ask, why still selling this vegetable and why people still buying it.   If you accidentally  brought it, no worry I have solution for you.  Use the vegetable to make soup.  It is perhaps the only way I know of in processing that Red Vegetable.

Ingredients :-
红菜，咸蛋
Red Vegetable and Salted Eggs are the only ingredients you need to make the soup.  A packet of the Red Vegetable coupling with 3 to 4 Salted Eggs ( supermarket come with a packet of 4 Salted Eggs, just nice ) will do.  It is a simple soup but not bad in drinking.

Cooking Instructions :-
1. Wash the Red Vegetable, plucked off the leaves from the stalks.  You have option whether you want to include the red coloured stalk inside the soup or not.

2. Boil a medium size pot of water that is 3/4 filled.

3. When the water boils, put in the Red Vegetable.  If you choose to include the red coloured stalk, put in the stalks first, cover up the pot and let it boils for 1 minute before putting in the leaves.  Once the leaves are in, cover up the pot and let it boils for 5 minutes.

4. Now for the Salted Eggs, you have to remove the black mud ( that how they usually come with ) first.  Might be a bit the dirty there if you are not careful.  What I did is while they are still pack in the little plastic bag, remove the black mud from there so that most of the black mud will in inside the little plastic bag and you just throw away the plastic bag later.  Might still have some mud sticking onto the Salted Egg so you have to rinse it under the tap.

5. Next cracks the Salted Egg into the boiling soup.  Once all the Salted Eggs are in, stir the soup constantly.  One thing about Salted Egg from the normal egg is that, the yolk still in a piece even after you stir the soup.

6. Through stirring, you can see the Salted Egg white floating on top of the soup and the Salted Egg yolk solidify into a ball.  Cover up the pot and let it boils for 15 to 20 minutes.

7. The soup should be done already by this time.  The leave of the Red Vegetable will be soften by now.

The Red Vegetable is not that awful to eat after boiling inside the soup.  The soup should taste salty due to the Salted Egg.  Try to mix the Salted Egg yolk with rice to eat it.  This is a very simple soup and takes not more than 30 minutes to do it.