Pickle bamboo shoot soup, the quickest food to make

In my previous article about edible plants, I mentioned a bit about bamboo shoot being food. Bamboo shoot can be eaten fresh or as pickle. 

In this post, I will introduce a very simple meal made from pickle bamboo shoot. I remember from my childhood, this pickle bamboo shoot is very important meal in rainy season because there were not many kinds of vegetables but also when everyone is busy, this is the quickest and simplest food to make. 

Pickle bamboo shoot soup with pork rib

Ingrdients:

• Meat: pork rib/ beef rib/ fish, 0.3kg
• Vegetable: pickle bamboo shoot, 0.2kg, spring onion (1-2 stems)
• Spice: salt, fish sauce, powder soup, palm sugar, ground black pepper and garlic

How prepare for a dish:

• Meat: clean and cut it into a small bite size
• Vegetable: pickle bamboo shoot usually comes handy, they made them very small pieces and soaked in salty water, so just clean them and cut into small bite, spring onion - clean and then cut it to put as garnish. You peel garlic, cut them into very small pieces.

How to cook:

• Boil water, when it is boiling you pour the meat. Keep boiling them for 10minutes. Do not add salt at this time because the pickle usually made bamboo shoot savory. 
• Put pickle bamboo shoot in, keep boiling them another 10-15mns. Put shred garlic and ground black pepper in.
• You taste it, add salt, fish sauce or palm sugar as per your preference.
• You finish off by garnishing the spring onion you have cut earlier.
• It is ready to eat.

Note:

• My mom usually does it in the simplest way like this. but,
• You can try another way. It is more tasty with great fragrant by stir fry the meat with oil, garlic, palm sugar, ground black pepper and salt. Keep stirring it until the meat is cooked, then pour water. When it is boiling, add the bamboo shoot in. Keep boiling them at the same amount of time and garnishing them with spring onion just like above recipe.
• Bamboo shoot is generally used as vegetables in Cambodian cuisine but pregnant women and women with gynecological diseases should be eaten with cautions or avoid eating them.