{"id":171548369,"date":"2012-12-12T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amichetti.posterous.com\/what-to-do-with-arrowroot"},"modified":"2012-12-12T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T13:04:00","slug":"what-to-do-with-arrowroot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/2012\/12\/12\/what-to-do-with-arrowroot\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do with arrowroot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s what I did.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Spent a good week using my Google search ninja skillz to find out how the<em>&nbsp;hec<\/em><em>k<\/em>&nbsp;people eat this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arrowroot\">weird tuber<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Spent another good 3 days figuring out if there was a way to eat it in a soup that wasn&#8217;t Chinese nor with meat.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Tweeted about it and posted on my family website, where 2 professional chefs and many more amateurs &#8212; I think last count was 8 &#8212; would see it.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Found 3 recipes that sounded decent (seriously &#8212; a lot of the recipes out there for arrowroot in soup sounded wayyyyy boring) and decided to do a recipe mashup.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biteonit.com\/2011\/07\/04\/healthy-vegetarian-arrow-root-with-corn-soup\/\">Recipe 1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechinesesouplady.com\/vegetarian-arrowroot-and-corn-soup\/\">Recipe 2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamakitchen.com\/2010\/06\/chinese-arrowroot-soup\/\">Recipe 3.<\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And so here is what I made.&nbsp;I&#8217;m calling this Adrienne&#8217;s Mash-up Arrowroot Soup (real original, eh?). It&#8217;s a nice, comforting, easy-to-eat soup. It&#8217;s the kind of soup you&#8217;d wanna eat when you&#8217;re sick. Or tired. Or both. It&#8217;s not really a gourmet meal. And it photographs *terribly* which is why I don&#8217;t have a single picture. Sorry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 medium Arrowroot (remove skin, cut into 1 inch bits)<\/li>\n<li>12 pieces dried oysters<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 to 1\/3 cup of dried shrimp (I am estimating)<\/li>\n<li>1 cup of raw peanuts<\/li>\n<li>10 dried red dates, washed<\/li>\n<li>2 fresh corn cobs<\/li>\n<li>2 carrots, peeled and chopped into 1 inch slices<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup adzuki beans, pre-soaked for 10-15 min<\/li>\n<li>2.75 L water<\/li>\n<li>light soy sauce to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Put the water on to boil. While it is heating, peel and chop the arrowroot. Put pieces into the pot as you slice them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Soak the oysters and shrimp in warm water for 10 minutes. At the same time, soak the adzuki beans in a separate bowl with water to cover.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While shrimp and oysters are soaking, peel and slice the carrots, then husk and cut the corn cobs (note to self: buy a bigger, sharper knife \/ cleaver for this, or buy fresh corn not on the cob).<\/p>\n<p>Put peanuts into a separate small pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil, simmer for 3 minutes, then drain. Set aside.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Add carrots and corn to the pot. Add also the drained shrimp, oysters, and adzuki beans. Bring to a boil.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reduce heat to low and add red dates. Simmer for 1 hour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Add peanuts. Simmer for another 30 minutes, or until arrowroot is very soft and adzuki beans are tender. Taste, and add soy sauce to preferences.<\/p>\n<p>Remove from heat (sadly, I forgot this step and after serving myself a big bowlful, I then proceeded to burn the rest of the soup. Sadface).<\/p>\n<p>Serve hot in bowls. Add more soy sauce at the table if you like.<\/p>\n<p>Serves 4. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s what I did. Spent a good week using my Google search ninja skillz to find out how the heck people eat this weird tuber. Spent another good 3 days figuring out if there was a way to eat it in a soup that wasn&#8217;t Chinese nor with meat. 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