Ingredients: 1 fish head (both carp and grass carp), 200g wax gourd, 50g water-borne fungus, onion, ginger 10g, salt, sugar, cooking wine and appropriate amount of broth.
Method: Remove gills from fish heads, wash them and blanch them in boiling water. Wash wax gourd and slice it; Cut the onion into sections and slice the ginger for later use. Put the pot on the fire, add lard and heat it, fry the fish head until it is 80% cooked, add salt and stir well, add broth to boil, then add wax gourd slices, fungus, onion slices, ginger slices and cooking wine and cook for 10 minute. Finally, add salt and sugar to taste, and the soup can be eaten after boiling.
Efficacy: dispel dampness and relieve summer heat, clear heart and improve eyesight, and replenish body fluid.
Mume soup:
Mume100g, sugar 50g. Dark plum is decocted with 1000 ml water, and sugar is added to the tea of future generations, which will have the effects of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, removing annoyance and calming the nerves. When drinking in summer, put it in the refrigerator for a while before drinking, which is very suitable for symptoms such as upset, sweating and thirst in summer.
Cabbage Ningxin Decoction: Take cabbage 150g, dried lily and lotus seed 20g, red dates 15g, appropriate amount of rock sugar, and a little onion, ginger, salt and sesame oil. Wash the cabbage and cut it into small pieces; Wash dried lily, lotus seed meat and red dates and soak them in clear water 1 hour. Put dried lily, lotus seed meat, red dates, shredded onion, ginger slices and crystal sugar into a pot, add appropriate amount of water to boil until it is soft, then add Chinese cabbage pieces to boil, and pour sesame oil to serve. This soup can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve fatigue.
An old wax gourd lotus leaf soup for relieving summer heat
Old winter melon and lotus leaf soup is a traditional folk soup for relieving summer heat in Guangdong. It smells fresh and fragrant, and has the functions of relieving summer heat, relieving annoyance and benefiting water. It is very effective for summer heat, thirst, irritability, yellow urine, insomnia, anorexia, etc. Lotus leaves are particularly strong in relieving summer heat, just like in "Herbal Rejuvenation", "relieving summer heat, quenching thirst and promoting fluid production, treating diarrhea and relieving summer heat." With old wax gourd, lentils, coix seed, corduroy flower, etc. , can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, detoxify and clear heat, so that it can clear heat without hurting the spleen, and diuresis does not hurt the yin.
Ingredients: 2 fresh lotus leaves, 500g old wax gourd, 5 bundles of fried lentils 12g, coix seed, adzuki bean, Polyporus, Alisma orientalis, Smilax glabra, kapok and corduroy.
Cooking: Wash and soak the materials slightly, wash the old wax gourd, and cut the peel and kernel into large pieces. Put it in a pottery jar with lotus leaves, add 2750 ml of clear water (about 5 bowls of water), boil it with strong fire for 3 hours, or add appropriate amount of salt and take it lightly; You can also add brown sugar to sweeten it. This amount can be used by 3-4 people, and should be taken every day or every other day in hot summer.
Sweet-scented osmanthus sour plum soup
In hot summer, most people will buy ebony and cook it themselves, and put some sugar in it to remove the acid. Iced sour plum soup is becoming more and more popular.
In recent years, many high-tech agricultural parks have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, where there are many trendy agricultural products. This paper introduces a kind of summer soup with trendy agricultural products as raw materials, which is fresh and delicious, has good cooling effect in summer, and has good health preservation effect in hot autumn and summer. Soup is dried wax gourd, dried Ge Fen and dried Ge Fen. Dried wax gourd and taro are well-known fruits and vegetables for clearing away heat and reducing fire, while dried pueraria lobata is well-known in Guangdong for reducing fire. Now it is used to stew crucian carp and chicken feet, which not only relieves summer heat and benefits water, but also clears away heat and reduces fire.
Ingredients: dried wax gourd, dried Ge Fen, dried kudzuvine root each120g, lean pork 250g, crucian carp 1~2 strips (about 50g), 6-8 chicken feet, and 2-3 slices of ginger.
Cooking: Wash dried wax gourd, dried Ge Fen and dried kudzuvine root, soak until soft, and cut into strips; Wash the whole pig lean meat without cutting; Slaughter crucian carp to remove intestinal impurities and gills, and fry until both sides are slightly yellow; Wash chicken feet, peel and remove nails. Put it in an earthenware pot filled with ginger, and add 3000ml of water (about 12 bowl of water). First, boil with high fire, then simmer for about 3 hours, and add appropriate amount of salt and oil. This amount can be used by 3-4 people, and lean pork and chicken feet can be picked up and mixed with soy sauce for dinner.
Sour plum is also a natural throat lozenge, which can gently moisten the inflamed parts of the throat and relieve the pain. Mume is rich in crude fiber and floral elements, which can accelerate human metabolism and effectively expel fat and toxins. Hawthorn can detoxify greasy meat, lose weight and reduce fat, so that the spleen and stomach will not be burdened by digesting too much greasy food.
Therefore, drinking a cup of sour plum soup is equivalent to giving your body an all-round cleaning.
■ Manufacturing method ■
Four kinds of medicinal materials: 25 grams of hawthorn, 25 grams of dark plum, 5 grams of licorice, 5 grams of osmanthus, can be boiled for one liter, and crystal sugar can be added according to your own taste. These can be bought in pharmacies and supermarkets selling tea or spices, but pharmacies are more accurate.
1. First, soak hawthorn and ebony in clear water for about half an hour. This can remove the floating objects on hawthorn and ebony, and it is easier to taste after boiling, and the boiled water can also be poured out.
2. Put the soaked Fructus Crataegi, Mume Fructus and Glycyrrhrizae Radix together in a gauze bag, put them away and tie them.
3. Put 1 liter of water into a pot, bring to a boil, add seasoning packets, and add crystal sugar. Stew for 30-40 minutes. Add the last 5 grams of osmanthus before taking out the pot. After the sweet-scented osmanthus flavor is cooked in the soup, you can turn off the heat.
4. Put the sour plum soup into a bottle with a filter, cool it, put it in the refrigerator, and pour it while drinking.