Heart healthy soup recipe –Ivy gourd soup

This heart healthy soup recipe use ivy gourd as a main ingredient. Thais usually grew ivy gourd as a homegrown vegetable. We use its tips and leaves as a side dish for many curry paste and to cook. This recipe is really easy to cook.

Ivy gourd soup

1 cup Ivy gourd  

2 Coriander roots, sliced

¼ cup Garlic

1 tbs. Pepper

½ cup Ground pork

½ ts. Sugar

½ tbs. Soy sauce

2 tbs. Fish sauce

3 cups Water

1. Thoroughly crush garlic, coriander roots, and pepper. Mix with ground pork. Add sugar and soy sauce.
2. Boil water with medium heat. Flavor with fish sauce.
3. Put the mixed ground pork in 1  into the soup.
4. Add ivy ground and cook for about 1 minute. 

You can eat this heart healthy soup alone or eat it with spicy Thai dish. If you cannot find any ivy gourd, any vegetable that has sweet taste would be a good substitute ingredient. 

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