Are you curious to cook your own bird’s nest soup? Although it’s easy, it is really important to not mess up your soup since the birds nest’s price is expensive. Surely you don’t wanna ruin it aren’t you? So, check out our recipes for bird’s nest soup! Super easy and delicious.
Prepare Your Bird Nest
First thing you need to do is prepare your edible bird’s nest you just bought. We suggest you do this thing first before preparing other ingredients. Because preparing a bird’s nest to cook might take a while to let it set.
There are 2 ways to prepare your edible bird’s nest before cooking. The first way is to soak your dried nest into a bowl of temperature room water until your bird nest swells. Or you can cook it in the microwave for 3 to 4 minutes.
Ingredients for Bird’s Nest Soup Recipes
As it’s a simple dish, you are not gonna need much for the ingredients. All you need is:
- 20 gram of Bird Nest
You can use all of the swiftlet’s bird nest shapes you wish. But if you want the sensation of eating a whole giant bird’s nest, we suggest you use our Celestial Clown, or any big and long-shaped bird’s nest you could get.
- 600 ml of Water
- Rock Candy
It looks like a rock, has white color, but sweet as sugar. You can easily find rock candy in the nearest store
- Date Palm
This sweet middle east fruit is quite popular for bird nest soup. The delicious sweetness will instantly increase your soup’s taste.
- Goji Berry
Goji berry or Wolfberry is commonly used in China, Korea, and Japan for medication since 1 AD. It also has a lot of vitamins such as vitamin A, B, and vitamin C.
How to Cook
- Put 20 gram of your nest, date palm, and 600 ml water into a pot
- Turn on your stove in medium heat until the water start to boil
- Turn to low heat when the water about to get boiled
- Put your rock stone and goji berry
- Turn the fire off when when your rock candy dissolves
- Put your bird nest soup in a bowl
- Delicious bird nest soup is ready to serve
That’s it! Super easy recipes for bird’s nest soup. Now you can enjoy a bowl of bird’s nest soup and get a superb amount of protein. For each 100 mg of bird’s nest soup, you’ll get 35.7 grams. So for a bowl of bird’s nest soup, you just cooked, you’ll gain 7.14 grams of protein.
As a reference, 100 grams of chicken meat contains 27 grams of protein. Such a no big difference, but bird’s nest soup has much lower fat than chicken meat. 100 grams of bird’s nest has only 0.3 grams of fat compared to 14 grams on chicken meat.
Hope you enjoy our recipes for bird’s nest soup. If you have other recipes, feel free to share your recipes in the comment sections down below. Don’t forget to share your soup with your loves one!
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