happy Tuesday Bisbee's we're back for
day 24 of our 30 days of healthy living
and eating series i'm zhang and today
i'm gonna be sharing one of the most
requested videos on my channel i'm gonna
be making the miracle seaweed soup AKA
mia cook it's a korean seaweed soup that
really helped me heal after giving birth
like after three days of giving birth i
was up and at it cleaning the floors and
you know I really credit this soup and
bone broth for helping me so today I am
going to help you so be sure to hit that
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and we'll go ahead and get started so
we're gonna start with soaking our
seaweed in my h mart hall i showed you
guys this packet of seaweed if you guys
are looking for seaweed just go to any
Asian store and they make it easy for
you they put the soup right on the
package I saw like 10 packages with the
same kind of soup in front of it so easy
to identify anyways I'm just gonna use
maybe about a handful
ah perfect it came out nicely for me and
I'm just gonna break it up a little bit
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add it to my bowl think I need a little
bit more the seaweed will expand to like
three or four times its size here so
just kind of eyeball it but now that
it's in a bowl I'm gonna add some warm
water and let it soak for 30 minutes so
while the seaweed is absorbing all the
water and expanding I'm gonna work on
marinating our beef the meat was also
from my H Mart haul I'm just using plain
ribeye that I cut up into small pieces
you want them kind of bite-size pieces
cuz you don't want it to kind of take
over and overwhelm the soup if you don't
want to use me and you guys want to opt
for a vegan version totally use tofu or
even mushrooms so I have about 1/4 pound
of this meat and I'm just gonna add 1
tbsp of soy sauce mix it around and now
we get to hang out for a little bit
while the meat marinades and the seaweed
expands so I do want to tell you guys
why this soup is so important in Korean
culture it's actually called the
birthday soup so the reason why it's
called birthday soup is because you eat
it every birthday but it's not to
celebrate your birthday it's to
commemorate the birth that your mother
and the labor that your mother went
through
labor is hard work and having gone
through it myself I feel like if I
didn't have the seaweed soup to help me
heal I I probably wouldn't have been
back on my feet as quickly seaweed has
iodine that helps to heal your body
along with other nutrients that your
body needs when you give birth or after
any kind of surgery you're depleted of
all the nutrients and basically you need
to replenish sometimes I like to make
this with bone broth for like a
double-whammy kick but today I'm just
gonna make it with plain water because
it's the cleanest okay so our meat is
looking good and the seaweed has pretty
much fully expanded but they're quite
large these pieces are not soup friendly
so I'm gonna cut them into smaller
pieces just with some kitchen shears I
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love cooking with scissors I guess I
could totally just drain this and cut
them up but gives me a chance to use my
kitchen shears also have you guys notice
how efficient they are when you go to
Korean barbecue they're always using
like kitchen shears or a scissors to cut
their meat not with the knife so I think
that's why I like connected the two
together all right let's see yep they're
nice and small you can have a mix of big
pieces and small pieces but just
something that's edible good now we
start the cooking process so I've
completely drained and rinsed the
seaweed I rinsed it with maybe like five
waters changes because you want to get
rid of all of that is she's salty taste
from it if you like it then feel free to
just give it one or two rinses but I
tend to like it super clean here in my
soup pot I'm just gonna add about two
teaspoons of sesame seed oil then I'll
add four cloves of minced
our lick you can feel free to add just
the amount of garlic I'll sauté the
garlic for about a minute let the aromas
come out but garlic also has a lot of
healing properties because it's so
nutrient dense as well ah it smells so
good
okay now I'm gonna add my knee in and
saute that for a few minutes until it's
nice and brown now that my needs Brown
I'll add in the seaweed give it a mix
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and then I'll fill the pot with water
all the way to the top when filling your
pot with water make sure that you're
using filtered water because since this
is a healing soup you want the
ingredients to be as clean as possible
so now that our soup is boiling I'm just
gonna cover it turn the heat down to
about medium-low let it simmer for about
an hour until the meat is nice and soft
and all the nutrients have been
extracted from the seaweed into our soup
our soup is looking really good
I tried a piece of meat and it's nice
and soft but now I'm gonna show you how
to season it so just give it a taste
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mmm it's good but it needs a little more
depth so I'm gonna season it with just a
little bit of soy sauce typically for
this soup they would use a soy sauce
called soup soy sauce and it's a little
bit thicker but since I know not
everywhere sells that kind of soy sauce
I'm just using regular old soy sauce now
I'm seasoning it based on taste so here
I'm just gonna use about one tablespoon
give it a stir and this should be good
I'm ready to serve I'll serve some now
cook into the bowl and then I love
eating it with some brown rice tip for
new moms brown rice helps with milk
production and kimchi which is really
great for your gut since it's full of
probiotics all right guys let's give
this a try
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it's so comforting and it has like the
perfect amount of umami from the seaweed
and the soy sauce the meat just kind of
melts in your mouth oh my gosh this is
so good brings me back to the days where
I was eating this for a full week after
giving birth literally if I didn't have
this soup I probably wouldn't have any
food either because this was all I could
eat I really believed in and loved
Eastern medicines and remedies I know my
mom uses a lot of their traditions and I
kind of apply Eastern and Western
medicine and healing into my life but
this is definitely one that I will
continue to use for the rest of my life
I hope you guys found this recipe really
useful and if you have any friends that
are about to give birth has just given
birth or even if they just had some kind
of surgery make them this soup because
it'll help them heal so fast let me know
in the comment section if you have any
questions at all or my Korean busy bees
how you guys serve and enjoy this soup
thank you so much for watching guys I
will see you guys tomorrow for day 25 my
little cooking sidekick era see mom I
just taught you how to make this Mia
cook so every time it's your birthday
you make for Mama okay not for yourself
but for Mama yeah
hey which one do you like kimchi you'd
rather have the kimchi huh it smells
okay
Hey
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