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Baird Tong Soup

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1/2 a cup Orzo
  • 1 pound stew beef meat, cut small
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 2 medium sized onions
  • 4 cups water
  • 5 cardamon sticks
  • 1 lemon

Directions

  1. Melt the butter.
  2. Add Orzo to butter.
  3. Cook on a low flame and stir in the Orzo until Orzo becomes a red color.
  4. Wash beef well.
  5. Boil 4 cups of water and cook beef for 3 minutes. Scoop boiled blood if any.
  6. Cut onion. Add Onion, Orzo, salt, and pepper to beef and cook until onion and beef are cooked. Add 5 cardamon sticks to beef. Add water if needed.
  7. After the soup is cooked remove the 5 Cardamom sticks. If you failed to remove the sticks, the Cardamom will have a bitter taste when you eat it.
  8. Serve soup while it is hot. If you like, add lemon to the soup.
Yield
4