Chinese confinement recipe

Chinese Confinement (Zuo Yue Zi - Sitting The Moon). Everything you need to know about Chinese confinement or known as zuo yue zi, confinement food/meal and its practice. Also frequently asked questions and myths and facts about Chinese confinement.

This simple soup replenishes your blood cells and is also excellent for menstruating women as it helps to build up and replace lost blood.

There I am above at nine months pregnant waiting anxiously for our baby girl to arrive, and below is me just four weeks later holding her in my arms! My month of postpartum confinement ended… View Post

Easy Clay Pot Shaoxing Drunken Chicken. Chicken pieces are stewed in aromatics, Shaoxing wine, ginger, and red dates. Perfect as an easy weeknight meal or as part of a confinement diet. Can be cooked without clay pot too.

Chinese herbs for steamed herbal chicken: angelica root (Chinese: 当归 - dang gui), American (yellow) ginseng (Chinese: 花旗参 - hua qi shen), red dates/jujube (Chinese: 红枣 - hong zao), goji berries (Chinese: 枸杞 - gou qi), codonopsis root (Chinese: 党参 - dang shen ), and shiitake mushrooms (Chinese: 香菇 - xiang gu).

Pig’s Trotter in Vinegar, also called 猪脚醋 or ‘ter ka cho’ (Hokkien) among the Chinese community, or pork knuckles in black sweet vinegar, is a common postpartum dish for postnatal mums during the ‘confinement period’, that is the one month after they have given birth. #recipe #confinement #porktrotter

Make this absolutely delicious, easy, and comforting Taiwanese sesame oil wine chicken soup served with mee sua noodles (or use somen noodles). It's especially perfect when the weather is cooling off. Suitable as Chinese confinement recipe too.

If you've never tried this soup... Please do. Seriously. It has just become my favorite Chinese soup! It's a classic confinement tonic for w...

Mu gua yu tang papaya fish soup. Although reccomended for confinement and breastfeeding, I think I'll take this soup anyway because it sounds yummy and healthy!

This Chinese Watercress Soup will make every family weekday dinner complete. It's full of nutrients and is refreshingly light, packed with earthy flavours to keep you satisfied for the whole week!