Carp Soup With Papaya Recipe

This Cantonese-inspired post-natal dish is suitable to be consumed start from first week of confinement. It stimulates lactation and speeds up postpartum recovery especially for the woman who undergo caesarian.

Choose a half-ripe papaya in order to get a clean soup. Ripe papaya tends to crumble into fine threads and produce cloudy soup.

Ingredients :

• 700g papaya

• 1 carp (Shang Yu in Cantonese)

• 10g ginger

• 1 tbsp water
  
  Chinese Herbs :

• 20g Astragalus's Root (Huang Qi)

• 10 pcs red dates

• 5g Ligusticum wallichii (Chuan Qiong)

  
  

  
  

  Method :

  1. Cut the flesh of papaya into big chunks, boil with herbs and water, then simmer in low heat for 15 minutes.

  2. Scale and clean the fish, cut into two big chunks, add to the soup and cook until done, then season with salt.