Astragalus Vegetable Soup (Detox Soup) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

12 g astragalus root
230 g broccoli
1 tomatoes
3 shiitake mushrooms or 3 dried Chinese mushrooms
1 teaspoon salt
1 liter water or 1 liter soup stock

Preparation

Wash the broccoli and cut into little florets.
Wash the mushrooms and cut in half.
Wash the tomato, remove the skin by scoring the skin with a knife and blanch the tomato with hot water and cold water. The skin should shrink from the fruit making it easy to remove. Cut the fruit into quarters.
Bring the astragalus and water to boil. Lower the heat and cook for 10 minutes. Strain off the root and keep the broth then add the rest of the ingredients to the broth.
Add the tomato and mushrooms and cook a further 15 minutes.
Lastly, add the broccoli, turn up the heat and cook till broccoli is done.
Add salt to taste.