Efficacy: invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals.
Ingredients: chicken feet 40g, lentils 10g, coix seed 7g and ginger slices.
Practice: First, take off clothes and clean chicken feet, cut off toenails, then wash lentils and coix seed, and then put them into a stew with chicken feet and ginger slices.
Chef's comment: The ingredients of this soup must be fresh. For example, chicken feet should not be chilled, because it will affect the taste of soup. This soup usually feels fresh and sweet.
Ginkgo barley belly
Efficacy: moistening lung, strengthening spleen and eliminating dampness.
Ingredients: 30 grams of small belly, 6 ginkgo, 7 grams of coix seed, and appropriate amount of ginger.
Practice: Wash the pork belly, cut it into strips, put it in a stew with washed ginkgo and coix seed, and add a slice of ginger.
Chef's comment: The soup tastes mellow and sweet.
Gouqitou stewed pork ribs
Efficacy: tonify deficiency and essence, clear away heat and improve eyesight.
Ingredients: 60g of sparerib, 0/0g of gouqi tou/kloc-,3g of medlar, half a piece of candied dates, and appropriate amount of ginger slices.
Practice: Wash and chop the ribs first, and then wash the wolfberry head and wolfberry fruit with clear water. Then put all the ingredients into the stew.
Chef's comment: Choose Tang ribs instead of pork chops, because pork chops are fatter and the soup is greasy when stewing. This soup has a strong meat flavor and is very sweet.
Stewed raw fish with cabbage
Efficacy: nourishing yin and clearing heat, invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis.
Ingredients: 50g raw fish, 0/5g kudzu root/kloc-,2g candied dates, and appropriate amount of ginger.
Practice: After the raw fish is processed, the viscera is removed, washed and chopped, and the kudzu root is rinsed with clear water, and then all the materials are put into the stew.
Chef's comment: Gecai should be soaked in clear water for a while to avoid pests. This soup has the flavor of both fish and vegetables.
Seasonal soup
Hayes Restaurant offers many seasonal soups, and the chef has selected a few to give you a brief introduction.
Stewed old duck with lily, mulberry and green fruit
Efficacy: clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, strengthening spleen and caring skin Materials: lily, mulberry, olive, old duck (female)
Chef's comment: Mulberry has a good effect of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. Lily is bought from Qinghai, and wild lily is said to have beauty effect. Olive fruit is actually * * * green jujube, which also has the effect of eliminating dampness. The reason why the old duck chooses females instead of males is because folklore says that females are gentle and males are hot and dry.
Juncus juncea and red bean stew soup steak
Efficacy: Clearing heart, purging fire, benefiting water and removing dampness Materials: Juncus Juncus, Semen Phaseoli and Tang Pai.
Chef's comment: Juncus is a common plant in the field, and Cantonese people often use it to cook herbal tea. Red beans are used to enhance flavor, and Tang school is used to enhance flavor. The practice is relatively simple, and everyone can try it at home. This soup tastes like a plant.
Stewed turtle shell with fresh poria cocos
Efficacy: cooling blood and detoxifying materials: fresh poria cocos, snake and tortoise plastron.
Chef's comment: Poria cocos is a commonly used Chinese medicine, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and calming the heart. Tortoise shell has a good detoxification effect. Generally speaking, pork will be added to this soup to bring out the flavor of the soup. However, this soup has been improved and replaced with water snake meat, which has a better refreshing effect. This soup tastes sweet and salty, and the medicinal materials are heavy.
Babao cold melon soup
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, nourishing spleen and lung.
Ingredients: cucumber, Chen Shen, coix seed, secretariat, red meat, old chicken, green wings, bamboo shoots, soybeans, etc.
Chef's comment: Bitter gourd has the effect of detoxification and beauty. This cold melon is bought from Hainan, where there is more sunshine and bitter gourd flavor is stronger. Chen Shen is a dried product pickled with duck kidney, and the pickling method is similar to ham. Red meat is clean and lean, and green wings are small shark wings. This soup tastes sweet and cold, especially suitable for people who smoke, stay up late and have a sore throat.
Tips for soup making: After all kinds of materials are put into the stew, cover the stew and seal it with sandpaper, then stew it in water for 4 hours, and add some salt to taste.
Braised pig's trotters with Banlangen
Ingredients: 8 grams of Radix Isatidis, 60 grams of pig's trotters, ginger 1 tablet, and half of candied dates.
Practice: Wash the pig's trotters (that is, the meat of the pig's front calf) and cut into large pieces. Rinse the slices of Radix Isatidis with water, then put all the ingredients in a saucepan, simmer for 3 hours, keep the temperature until drinking, and then add salt to taste.
Note: the pig's trotters are tender and smooth. There is a little fleshy fiber after stewing, which is quite biting. Dipping in soy sauce is a favorite of many men.
Stewed pork tendon with fresh mulberry leaves
Ingredients: 5 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, 60 grams of pork tenderloin, half candied dates, ginger 1 tablet.
Practice: Wash pork tenderloin and cut into large pieces. Rinse fresh mulberry leaves with water, then put all the ingredients in a stew pot and stew for 3 hours, adding salt to taste when drinking.
Note: Fresh mulberry leaves are the most abundant from March to May, so don't miss it. Young leaves can be cooked and eaten. If you stew soup, old leaves can do no harm.