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Five-Color Mixed Bean and Lean Pork Soup

Traditionally used to nourish the five organs and support overall vitality

In short: Five-Color Mixed Bean and Lean Pork Soup is a soup that Traditionally used to nourish the five organs and support overall vitality. It is most often made for energy & vitality, everyday balance. Total time about 3 hr 10 min. Key ingredients: mung beans, soybeans, black soybeans, tangerine peel.

Prep
1 hr 10 min
Cook
2 hr
Total
3 hr 10 min
Makes
1.2–1.5 L
Five-Color Mixed Bean and Lean Pork Soup

Why people make this soup

Nourilo picked up a couple of bags of five-color kidney beans at a farmers’ fair and threw in a few more beans of different colors to make a hearty pot of soup with lean pork. In Chinese food-therapy thinking, a bowl built from many colors of beans is a simple way to give the whole body a little support — it is filling, nourishing, and the kind of thing a family can drink any day.

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