Stewed chicken with wormwood
Materials: dried wormwood 70g, old hen 1 hen, about 1500g.
Seasoning: salt, ginger 10g.
Steps:
1. Slaughter the old hen, pluck the hair and gut it, then wash it and cut it into large pieces.
2. Wash ginger (don't peel it) and pat it flat.
3. Wash the earthen pot and add the old hen, wormwood leaves and ginger; Add water.
4. Cook with high fire for about 5 minutes, then turn to low heat and cook for about 1.5 ~ 2 hours when the water surface boils.
5, add the right amount of salt to drink.
Reminder: When selecting dried wormwood, the thicker the rhizome, the older the better, the better the smell, and the more wormwood leaves, the better. The top grade is the one with the better smell. The stems of mugwort root and mugwort are much better than mugwort leaves, so they are generally used to make soup.
Efficacy: wormwood soup combined with chicken soup can regulate menstruation and replenish blood, dispel wind and warm stomach, clear away heat and toxic materials, calm liver and purge fire, dispel wind and remove dampness, diminish inflammation and relieve cough. It has certain curative effect on dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, palace cold and miscarriage prevention. Because the old hen has a good effect of expelling wind, it is generally used in wormwood soup.
Several ways to eat wormwood to help you live longer.
Ai ye yi ren Zhou
Add appropriate amount of coix seed and water to cook porridge for later use. Boil Folium Artemisiae Argyi and eggs together until the eggs are cooked, and put the soup into Coicis Semen; Eggs are shelled, dipped in pepper and salt, and eaten with porridge.
Aiye Baba
Wash the wormwood, cut it into pieces, mash it with steamed granular sweet potato powder and glutinous rice into a sticky state, then knead it into round, moist, soft and smooth wormwood leaves, and put it in a steamer to steam cooked food.
Wormwood bud meatball
Chop pork and washed Artemisia argyi bud respectively, add appropriate amount of salt, ginger, monosodium glutamate, edible oil and eggs, and then process them into meatballs or patties, or cook, fry and steam them. It has the effect of warming the stomach.
Ai Miao fried eggs
Wash and chop wormwood buds, add eggs, stir well, add salt, put oil in a hot pan and fry until cooked. It has appetizing effect.
Jiaozi, Ai Xiang
Chop pork or chicken and wormwood respectively, add salt, monosodium glutamate and starch, stir into stuffing, and cook in jiaozi.
Xiang' aibao chicken
Cut a tender chicken into pieces and put it in a casserole, add shredded ginger, bring to a boil, and then add mugwort leaves. When the mugwort leaves are ripe, take off the pot. Cooking chicken with fresh wormwood is not as bitter as old wormwood, and you will feel a strong aroma when you eat it.