Summer fire-reducing soup and winter melon soup
There are many people who get angry in summer. At this time, you can also make proper use of wax gourd to reduce fire for yourself. Wax gourd is a kind of vegetable that can be used as both medicine and food, and it has many health-care functions. Chinese medicine believes that wax gourd is sweet, light and cool, and enters the lung, large intestine, small intestine and bladder meridian; It has many effects, such as moistening lung, promoting fluid production, eliminating phlegm, quenching thirst, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, clearing away heat and summer heat, detoxifying and expelling pus. Wax gourd contains a good amount of potassium, which is helpful for patients with heart disease and diabetes to urinate. Diabetes patients who eat more wax gourd can increase metabolic rate and reduce blood sugar concentration.
When cooking winter melon soup, don't peel and remove the seeds in a hurry. It's best to wash the skin of winter melon, put it in the pot and cook the soup. When it is cooked, remove the skin and melon seeds, which can have diuretic effect. However, it should be noted that you should not eat too much wax gourd when reducing the fire, in case you eat too cold and cause gastrointestinal discomfort and diarrhea.
Winter melon sparerib soup
Ingredients: 400g of wax gourd, 200g of ribs, ginger 1 piece, dried scallop 1 00g, sesame oil 1 spoon, 2 tsps of refined salt, monosodium glutamate1spoon.
Practice: Wash the ribs, blanch them in boiling water, remove the blood, drain the water, wash the ginger and pat it loose, cut the wax gourd into thick slices, put water in the casserole, add the ribs and dried scalloped ginger, boil them with high fire, and simmer for 40 minutes. When the ribs are cooked, add the wax gourd slices. When the wax gourd is cooked, add the refined salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.
Almond Sydney lean broth
Ingredients: Sydney 1 piece, 200g lean pork, almond1piece, 2 red dates, salt and water.
Practice: cut the pork into large pieces, put it in water, boil it for one or two minutes, then take it out, wash off the floating foam on the surface, drain it for use, peel and remove the core of Sydney, cut it into pieces, rinse the almonds, and check the red dates after washing. Put Sydney, pork tendon, candied dates and almonds into a stewing pot, add about 1000 ml of clear water, cover the stewing pot, put it into an electric stewing pot, add a proper amount of water, then cover the stewing pot, and add a little salt to taste after stewing for about 2 hours.
Bird's nest and Sydney soup
Ingredients: bird's nest120g, 3 Sydney, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: the bird's nest is soaked in clear water, washed, and feathers and impurities are removed. Peel Sydney, take pear meat and cut into small pieces. Put all the ingredients in the stew pot, add appropriate amount of boiling water, cover the stew pot with slow fire and stew for 3 hours, and season for use.