Last day of being parasites...=(
am too comfortable with the piggy lifestyle and yes am in severe sedentary lifestyle now =P
Well everyone gone for work early morning and left me alone at home..
luckily daddy cooked barley+pumpkin soup yesterday for today's breakfast!!
start loving pumpkin recently due to its nutritional values and gets well adapt with its slight sweet taste and slurry texture hehe
and i realized pumpkin is not only for jack-o-lantern, it can be tasty when prepared with suitable ingredients =)
Pumpkin is great for skin as well!!woman gonna loves it haha
It is rich in antioxidants such as Vitamin A (beta-carotene) and C, alpha-hydroxy-acids where helps to reduce aging signs. Besides that, it contained extremely rich dietary fiber and is low in calories!!
While for barley, i take as a rice substituent as it is low Glycemic Index food with high fiber as well as vitamin&minerals as compared to white rice.
Both pumpkin and barley will give a good combination sweet soup for a sunny hot day like today^^
it is a simple recipe，
- soak barley for around 3hrs.
- trim pumpkin and cut it to any size as it would be slushy when cook
- add adequate water and cook with pressure cooker(around 30mins)
- normal stove cooker can be use as well just needed longer time
- add in rock sugar according to own preference
- if prefer a slurry or smoother soup, blend the pumpkin and barley either before or after cooking
- and it is ready to serve =)
lazy to snap picture and upload so stolen a photo from net =P
it is something similar with the picture,
just that it uses china barley while mine is normal barley
and rock sugar is added instead of wolfberry.
anything can be used as sweetener for own preference,
winter melon sugar is another option as well.
give a try with this recipe if u are a pumpkin lover =)
