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Luffa Tomato Soup
Luffa Tomato Soup Recipe
Instead of soup stock, you can also use plain water and season it to taste (salt, pepper/ soy sauce/ ikan bilis etc).
Ingredients:
- half large luffa/angled gourd (250 to 300 grams before cut)
- 1 tomato cut to wedges
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 1/2 tbsp sesame oil
- 1/2 onion roughly sliced
- 2 cloves of garlic sliced thinly
- 250 ml chicken (vegetable) stock
- 3 slices ginger
Directions:
- Prep luffa by removing the skin using a peeler, then slice into halve lengthwise. Remove and discard the seeds. Cut the luffa flesh to bite-sized chunks. View this post for more info.
- In a wok, heat cooking oil and sesame oil. Stir fry the garlic and onions until the latter is softened. Add tomato and luffa. Stir fry briefly to bring out the flavours.
- Add chicken stock and ginger. Bring to boil, cover with lid and simmer for about 5 minutes until the luffa is soft.
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I love the spongy and light texture of the luffa gourd, especially in soupy broth. They go well with stir-fry eggs too.
Hope you enjoy your first experience with luffa :)
Sometimes I swirl in an egg towards the egg, and serve them over noodles. One-dish noodle soup for lazy-cooks like me.
Luffa is also good with clams – quite a popular dish in Taiwan.
If you see another type of luffa (fatter version, no ridges), you shd try it as it yields much more flesh than this ridge-version.
the fatter version without ridges, is that marrow gourd? Would love to cook with that next time. Egg drop soup sounds good to me too. Thanks for sharing.
I don’t think it is marrow gourd though it looks similar?
台湾丝瓜 http://www.fooding.com.tw/article-content.php?aid=102664
I don’t know why there is a Taiwanese version of 丝瓜 though.
Oh, that’s unusual. Thanks for link and pic. will keep a look out :)
Used to eat lots of luffa soup during the summer season. My mom made it with silky tofu, pork or like yours, simply with tomatoes.
I have not had luffa for ages…my mom used to cook it with ginger…and I did not know about the 1o ridges…so interesting!
I like that you added tomato and chicken stock…looks delicious!
Hope you are enjoying your week Wiffy :)
i am going to try out your recipe.
Thanks for the recipe! Added tang hoon and made it for lunch yesterday. :)
Exactly how much ginger?
3 slices, as stated in the recipe.