New mummies must follow a proper diet during their postpartum period. It is best for you to consume more warm or heaty foods like soups. This is because soups can aid with healing faster and relieve ‘wind’ from your postpartum body.
This is crucial if you are breastfeeding because all the food that you eat will be transferred to your newborn through your breast milk. Do not sweat too much about it! Here are four delicious and easy confinement soup recipes just for you!
Before we explore these confinement soup recipes, here are some importance of eating healthy confinement food:
- Hastens your healing process.
- Discharges ‘wind’ from the body.
- Boosts your energy.
- Promotes breast milk supply.
- Ensures your breast milk quality.
- Provides nutrients for you and your newborn.
4 Delicious and Easy Malay Confinement Soup Recipes
Mixed Vegetable Soup
Ingredients
Soup Base
- cooking oil
- anchovy seasoning powder
- salt to taste
- fried vegetable paste
Vegetables
- 200 g broccoli cut into florets
- 1/2 radish cut into chunks
- 1 carrot cut into chunks
- 1/2 celery sliced into segments
- 3 leaves cabbage cut
Seasoning
- 2 shallots
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp black pepper
- 1/2 tbsp cumin
Instructions
- Start by adding all the vegetables into a pot of water. Bring water to a boil.
- Add the seasoning, and let simmer for a few minutes.
- Add the anchovy seasoning powder and fried vegetable paste into the pot. Mix to dissolve.
- Once vegetables are soft, add salt to taste. Ladle into bowls, and serve hot.
White Radish Soup
Ingredients
- 1/2 whole fresh chicken carcass (rangka ayam)
- 1 white radish sliced
- 2 shallots sliced
- 2 cloves garlic sliced
- 1/2 inch ginger sliced
- 1/2 tbsp chicken seasoning powder
- salt as per taste
- 3 cups water
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Sauté the shallots, garlic and ginger.
- Add 3 cups of water and fresh chicken carcass.
- Let it boil for 15 minutes and add some chicken seasoning powder and salt.
- Add the sliced white radish into the pot.
- Let it boil for while before serving.
- You may serve it in a bowl with a sprinkle of sliced spring onions, celery leaves and fried onions.
Jujube Soup
Ingredients
- 500 ml water
- 100 g chicken breast cut into cubes
- 50 g anchovies minced
- 20 g black turtle bean
- 20 g jujube
- salt to taste
- 10 g ginger slices
- 10 g garlic slices
Instructions
- Start by boiling water in a pot. Once water is boiled, add cubed chicken breast, anchovies, and both the berries.
- Let the chicken fully cook until tender.
- Wait until the chicken is tender before serving it. Once chicken is cooked, ladle soup into smaller bowls.
- Serve hot with a bowl of hot rice.
Simple Green Papaya Chicken Soup
Ingredients
Soup Fillings
- 200 g green papaya diced
- 500 g chicken diced
- 1 tomato sliced
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 2 pieces basil leaves
- salt to taste
Soup Base
- 800 ml water
- 2 bird's eye chilli smashed
- 1 piece kaffir lime leaf
- 20 g galangal
- 20 g ginger
- 2 bulbs large onions
- 6 cloves garlic
Instructions
- Combine soup base and soup filling ingredients into a pot. Bring it to a boil
- Add the chicken, lime juice, basil, green papaya and salt in the pot. Boil until the chicken is nice and tender.
- Add the tomatoes.
- Boil for 10 more minutes. Ladle into smaller bowls, and serve hot.
Make sure to follow these yummy soup recipes!
Therefore, it is necessary to practice a balanced diet so you and your baby are healthy. A balanced diet will quicken your postpartum recovery and restore your energy. It can also help ensure the right nutrients for your newborn’s optimum development and growth.
With the right recipes, you do not have to worry about nutrients and just enjoy your confinement food!
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