As I'm still in my 'confinement' month, I had been cooking some nourishing soups and dishes to help my body strengthen. One of them is my favourite Pork offals soup. Back in my childhood days, mum would cook this every month on Saturday for lunch.
Why Saturday lunch?
Because that is the day off for mum from work and also last day for the butcher to sell fresh meat. So mum would go market early in the morning to get the ingredients from the butcher uncle. Talking about that butcher, we had been buying from him all the thirteen years we had been in Singapore. I wonder if he had retired? My dad's favourite offals are small intestine, liver and kidney. Therefore these were the main ingredients in the soup, together with lean meat.
As for me, I don't fancy the tough chewy small intestine. My favourite is the kidney. Yum!!
How do you prepare the raw kidney?
Here's a photo of it!
Nicely soaking in the fresh water after doing the prep work on it.
Well, prepping the fresh kidney takes time. But it is essential so as to get nice yummy taste without the urine smell.
Yes, kidney filters the urine. So it is important to cleaning them well.
Firstly, cut them horizontally to exposed the filtration unit. (Right kidney) The part we eat is the cortex of the kidney. So slowly and gently, I have to slice away the filter system to expose the cortex of the kidney. (Left kidney is half done) See those white veins like structure on the left kidney? Those are the filtration tubules that needs to be trim away as well.
After it was all done, gently criss cross the inner surface of the cortex like a sotong, and the slice them into the slice you want for cooking.
The kidney slices now had to be soak in fresh water to help diffuse out the remaining urine smell in the cortex. I usually kept rinsing and change the water 6-7 times, till the water remains clear. (Like in the first photo)
I had been putting in pork meat, kidney and liver for my soup. It was especially good to have nice warm soup that nourishes the blood and kidney in the cold rainy day. I do hope that the wild weather will ease in the coming week.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Kcan
5 comments:
yummy kind of soup, some dare not drink but i do
Thank you for showing us the way to prepare kidneys to remove the urine smell. I like eating livers but not so much kidneys due to the urine smell since not many people know how to prepare it well.
do take good care!
Glad that there are still people who likes to eat them =)
I think i used to have kidney soup during confinement period.
I would say is force to eat..hahah. I think I prefer stir fry version.
I have not had stir fry kidney before. My mum always made them in soup. Any one with recommendations on recipes for stir fry kidneys? =D
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