Braised Radish with Ribs

Radish has a lot of benefit in the view of Chinese Medicine (Ping Ming Health). Unfortunately, the taste of radish is really strong when it is taken raw. Due to its benefit, I have tried to make juice with radish by hoping that my kids will like it. To make the drink more attractive while minimizing the taste and odour of radish, I have blended radish juice with apple and orange juice. Even though I can 'cheat' my kids over the attractive color of the juice, the taste of radish is still strong to accept. They spit the drink immediately when their taste buds touches the juice. I am totally understand as I also find that the drink is too 'spicy' for me. I left with no choice but to braise radish for them and it turns out they love it so much.

Ingredients
1 medium radish
300g of ribs
1 tbsp. oil
1/2 tbsp. of bean paste
2 cm of ginger
5 pieces of cloves
3cm of cinnamon stick
2 pieces of star anise
500ml water
Soya sauce to taste
Brown sugar to taste

1. Boil a small pot of water to scald the ribs. This is to remove all the blood traces. Set aside.

2. Clean the radish and cut the radish into big pieces.

3. In a separate pot, heat up the oil and then, put in ginger and bean paste. When it is fragrant, put in the rib and stir fry for a few minutes until outside later of meat is cooked.

4. Add in cloves, cinnamon stick and star anise and water.

5. When the water is boiling, put in all the radish and simmer with small fire till all the radish is soft.

6. You may serve with rice.