The Nasty Bits: Pork Skin Soup

Name: The Nasty Bits: Pork Skin Soup
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 servings thinly sliced green onions, to garnish; 3 leaves napa cabbage, bok choy, or leafy green vegetable; 1 sheet dried pig skin, about 5 by 5 inches; 1 liters best-quality pork or vegetable broth

The Nasty Bits: Pork Skin Soup is a gluten free, dairy free, and whole 30 recipe with 4 servings. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 41 calories, 1g of protein, and 0g of fat. It will be a hit at your Autumn event. It works well as a soup. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes. A mixture of vegetable broth, leafy vegetable, pig skin, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful.

Instructions

Soak the sheet of dried pig skin in water to cover, for at least 8 hours and up to a few days in the refrigerator. When you are ready to make the soup, cut the skin into 1-inch chunks and set aside.

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Water

Soup

Wash and cut your napa cabbage, or another vegetable of your choice. Set aside.

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Napa Cabbage

Vegetable

Bring the broth to a boil and add the chopped pork skin and vegetables. Simmer for 20 minutes, until both the cabbage and the skin have fully softened. If you are using a vegetable that takes less time to cook, such as bok choy, add the cut-up vegetables towards the last few minutes of cooking.

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Vegetable

Bok Choy