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How to Make Delicious Duck Soup in under 30 minutes!

June 3, 2023 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

How to Make Delicious Duck Soup in under 30 Minutes is the answer for a Friday night dinner! All made in one pot. If you’re not familiar with my Wok Star approach to cooking yet, I don’t use recipes or measuring, so this One Dish Delicious Duck Soup is a perfect example of that approach. Once you get this process down, you can use any protein or vegetables to make this one pot soup dinner!

Steps for One Dish Delicious Duck Soup in under 30 minutes!


Here’s a simple process…

Use whatever vegetables you have!

Start with your favorite stock. I use Costco Kirkland Signature Chicken Stock or Trader Joe’s Miso Ginger Broth.

Season soup…
Dash of San-J tamari, sprinkle of medium drinking sherry and white pepper and squirt of lime or lemon juice.

Add vegetables…One type of vegetables at a time.

Daikon takes most time, it gives a wonderful, sweet flavor.

Mustard greens. I was so annoyed, I overcooked them cause so focused on taking photos & videos! See how color is not bright green. I should have scooped out all the vegetables and put in soup bowls.

Enoki mushrooms & shredded ginger. Fresh ginger is readily available, cheap and is one of two main ingredients I use in most of my cooking. The other is garlic. You don’t need to peel it, just wash and slice thin, then shred. A thumb size is all you need, it can be quite “spicy”, otherwise.

For health benefits of ginger, check what functional doctor, Dr. Josh Axe says about the wonders of ginger!

Last, halve ready cooked duck legs and add to soup and warm through on low heat. Don’t overcook to prevent them getting tough and dry. Add in white sliced scallions.

Add duck to vegetables and reheat soup so it’s piping hot and pour over everything. Garnish with chopped green part of scallion. Done!

Best served with kimchi, this is radish kimchi by Angry Booch I get from Legion Park Farmer’s Market in Upper Eastside Miami or order online.

ENJOY! Do you have a similar one pot soup dinner you like to make? Share with us.

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Delicious Duck Soup in under 30 Minutes!

Filed Under: blog, Easy Weeknight Dinners, meal ideas Tagged With: "dinner ideas", "easy dinners", "meal ideas", "one dish meals", "weeknight dinner", duck soup, no recipes, one pot dinner, one pot meals

Grilled Korean Style Kalbi Short Ribs, Wok Star Way

May 4, 2020 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

If you’re craving ribs with Asian flavors and you want it fast, I’ve got the PERFECT ANSWER – Grilled Korean Kalbi Short Ribs, done Wok Star Way. 

Kalbi, beech mushrooms, baby bok choy and grilled zoodles.
Sprinkle sesame seeds & Chili threads on Kalbi.
Served with beech mushrooms, baby bok choy and grilled zoodles.

My goal is always about the shortest way to achieve 3 things when cooking. Get authentic flavors by simplify long lists of ingredients and shorten the cooking process.

I got all excited when I found flanken beef short ribs at Costco recently. They cut the beef ribs across the ribs, the Asian way, so they are thinner, smaller to handle and cooks much faster. They also do this for pork ribs. 

The traditional Kalbi recipe calls for Asian pears, but the Wok Star way is to improvise and substitute or do away with if not in season or difficult to find. I left out this ingredient all together. You won’t miss it, especially if you’ve never had it before. 

Or you can just use any pear, it’s the sweetness you’re after. I personally don’t care for additional sugar of any kind because it masks the flavor of the actual ingredient, so you’re just tasting sugar. 

I’ve prepared Kalbi two ways so far.

Here are guidelines for making Kalbi, as you know, I don’t use precise measurements for cooking! 

While Kalbi is grilling, stir fry your vegetables, cook quinoa. Choose platter to serve. Lay your table. 

Stir Fry Bok Choy in cast iron wok, Iwatani gas stove
Stir Fry Bok Choy in cast iron wok, Iwatani gas stove.

Allow 2 strips of Kalbi per person with extra strips for seconds. 

Zing broiler on high. I think there’s only one setting, ON or OFF.

Place Kalbi on grilling rack on top rack, closest to broiler.

Flip Kalbi as soon as you smell yummy aromas on first side, don’t overcook. 

Let Kalbi crisp up a little, again don’t overcook because it’ll dry out. 

One last tip, I like to grill just the first strip for everyone and serve. While we eat the first round, I grill the second strip. 

1) San-J Tamari, garlic and ginger marinade
In a glass bowl, submerge ribs in a mix of tamari, scallions, ginger and garlic overnight in the fridge as instructed by most recipes. Then I had to pat the ribs dry. Some recipes said to throw away the marinade? So wasteful and I didn’t find the flavor was worth the effort. 

Tamari, Garlic and Ginger marinaded Beef Short Ribs overnight.
Kalbi, curry quinoa and stir fried baby bok choy
Sprinkle sesame seeds and chopped scallions on Kalbi.
Put small bowls of sesame seeds, chili threads, salt to give guests option to add more.
Serve with Stir Fried Bok Choy and Curry Quinoa.

2) Dry spice rub 
This is my preferred method for grilling meat. It does away with long marinade times, ribs are not wet making them tough when grilled and yields BETTER FLAVORS than the overnight marinade.  I literally sprinkle dry spice rub on both sides of Kalbi and grill, that’s it. 

I sprinkled Rufus Teague Spice Rub on Beef Short Ribs and grilled under broiler.
Kalbi, Chinese Broccoli, quinoa, pickles
Sprinkle sesame seeds and chopped scallions to garnish Kalbi. Served with quinoa, stir fried Chinese Broccoli, carrots and side of homemade pickles.

Try both and share in comments which you prefer or if you’re tried making Kalbi and your results. Food is all about personal taste. 

I like the explanation of Kalbi/Galbi here. 

Beef Chart shows all the different cuts…

Kalbi goes well with these dishes…

Curry Quinoa

Curry Quinoa

Mango, Pineapple Salsa

Mango, Pineapple Salsa
It doesn’t matter proportion, whatever fruit you like most, add that
Stir Fried Bok Choy and Mini Sweet Peppers
Stir Fried Baby Bok Choy, Mini Sweet Peppers in my cast iron wok and gas stove setup.
Add dash of tamari and sherry.

Filed Under: blog, Featured, Korean BBQ, meal ideas Tagged With: "Beef short ribs", "grilled ribs", "Korean BBQ", "Korean Style Kalbi", "Wok Star Way", Kalbi

Nearly Homemade Duck Noodle Soup in under 30 minutes

February 4, 2020 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

While you were all watching Super Bowl, I made this delicious Nearly Homemade Duck Noodle Soup in under 30 minutes! The Yu Choy and mushrooms I got from that new Chinese market, IFresh in North Miami were so good. And roast duck from King Palace.

Nearly homemade duck noodle soup
Nearly homemade duck noodle soup.

Quick and easy! Try it for weeknight especially when it’s a little chilly and breezy. Yes, Miami has had a little spell. I even have this through summer, in my house, we can have soup noodles ANY DAY.

I love the process of making it. It’s very soothing. Then seeing it come together with bright crunchy vegetables and squishy mushrooms.

Often, I’ll use different vegetables for variety on another night, see bottom photo.

I don’t even know why I eat this dish out since it’s so easy especially when you have access to a Chinese restaurant or market that prepares Roast Duck or meats.

Keep Rice Noodles in your pantry so you can whip this up in no time. Here’s how…

1. Start by cooking rice noodles: add boiling water to rice noodles in pot and just cover with lid without stove turned on. Yes, it doesn’t need heat, they “cook” really fast. Check it after only 5-7 minutes, do a taste test for doneness. Just put lid on if you want it softer.

I was in a hurry and overdid it by boiling, oops. Big mistake. They got quite starchy, so I rinsed in colander in cold water to stop from cooking and added few dashes of Sesame oil to prevent from sticking. This is how you treat noodles.

2. Whilst noodles are “cooking.” Chop scallions, cilantro and shred ginger.

3. Using same pot, make soup starting with Kirkland chicken stock, seasonings you already have in your KIT – San-J tamari, sherry, white pepper plus small dollop of Huy Fong chili garlic sauce and Red Boat Fish Sauce. Throw in ginger. Adjust savory, spiciness to your liking! 

Seasonings from your KIT. Tamari, Sherry, Pepper. Add chili & fish sauce.
Seasonings from your KIT. San-J Tamari, Sherry, Pepper. Add Huy Fong chili sauce & fish sauce.

4. Add duck pieces to soup to give flavor and warm through. Set in bowl. 

5. Blanche Yu Choy and mushrooms in soup.

6. Boil hot water and warm up rice noodles in colander and add to bowl. 

7. Boil soup to rolling boil. Pour soup over everything and garnish with chopped scallions, cilantro.  Boom, done!

ENJOY!

Use different vegetables like loofah melon
Use different vegetables like Loofah melon on another night.

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Filed Under: blog, Cooking Tips, meal ideas, weeknightdinner Tagged With: "Chinese food", "meal ideas", "roast duck", "noodle soup", homemade, weeknightdinner

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