When cooking soup in summer, the ingredients should pay attention to reducing fire and removing dampness, which requires that the main ingredients of soup should be selectively sweet and cool, such as mung bean, coix seed, kelp, wax gourd, lotus seed and other Chinese herbal medicines such as sword flower and abrus cantonensis. Herbs such as cordyceps sinensis, summer grass and ginseng are not suitable for soup in summer. Even in winter, tonic herbs such as nourishing yin and strengthening yang are not suitable for young people and children.
Although making soup is a chore in the kitchen, it is not because cooking is very complicated, but because it takes a long time to cook, which is somewhat time-consuming. In fact, it's easy to make soup. As long as the raw materials are properly mixed, three stews and four stews (as the chef says, it usually takes two to three hours to cook, and four hours to stew), you can slowly cook on the fire. The fire should not be too large, and the heat should be based on the boiling degree of the soup. After the pot is boiled, simmer slowly, and the heat can be controlled when the soup can be opened.
Most northerners think that spices should be added to soup, such as onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, aniseed, chicken essence, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine and so on. In fact, according to the experience of Guangdong people in soup making, these spices are unnecessary. If necessary, a piece of ginger is enough. Soup pays attention to the original taste. As long as it is cooked for enough time, the delicious taste of soup will naturally overflow.
Master these basic principles, and you will master the essence of soup making. The following soups were recommended by Mr. Wen Nan to Beijingers.
The following soup menu is for 4-6 people.
Nutrition soup
Ingredients: 400g of tomato, peeled and cut into pieces, 300g of potato, peeled and cut into pieces, 200g of carrot, washed and cut into pieces (flying water), 3 candied dates, 5 horseshoes and 6 kg of clear water.
Practice: Except tomatoes, all the other ingredients are put in after the water is boiled, and boiled for about 2 hours, then tomatoes are added, and then boiled for half an hour. Season with salt when eating.
Chef's experience: This soup is nutritious and suitable for all ages. It is a very appetizing soup. When cooking, the ribs are washed "flying water", that is, the raw ribs are scalded in boiling water, usually for 2-3 minutes, which will make the meat tight and taste better when eating. In soup, such as chicken, ribs, pork and other meats, most of them need to fly water before entering the pot.
Braised chicken with chicken bone grass
Ingredients: a chopped piece of black-bone chicken, flying water, Abrus cantoniensis (dry) about150g, washed and chopped, 250g of ribs, 3 candied dates, 20g of octopus and 6kg of clear water.
Practice: Boil the pot with clear water for about 3 hours, and use salt seasoning when eating.
Chef's experience: this soup can clear liver fire and relieve stomach qi, and it can prevent hepatitis if drunk frequently, which is suitable for all ages. Abrus cantonensis is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, which is the most abundant and the cheapest in Guangxi. Its main function is to remove damp fire. This herb can be bought in general Chinese medicine shops at a price of10-about a catty in 20 yuan.
Braised pigeon with kelp and mung bean.
Raw materials: 2 young pigeons are washed and each pigeon is chopped; 250 grams of pork tenderloin, washed and cut into pieces, 400 grams of kelp, 80 grams of mung beans, 3 candied dates and 6 kilograms of clear water.
Practice: same as above
Chef's experience: kelp and mung bean are cool, and they are all things to remove fire. Using this soup can clear away heat and detoxify, and it is a good product in summer. If there are children at home, it is easy to get prickly heat in summer, so you should drink this soup more.
Guangdong jianhuabao sparerib
Raw materials: 250g of dried swordflower, soaked for about half an hour to 1 hour, washed and chopped, 500g of spareribs chopped, washed and boiled, 3 candied dates, carrots100g cut into pieces, and 6 kg of clear water.
Practice is the same as above.
Chef's Experience: Dried sword flowers, also known as Lady Enforcers, can be purchased at the dry goods counter of large non-staple food stores. The price is around 1 0-20 yuan1kg. This soup is also effective in clearing away heat and moistening the lungs, which is very suitable for drinking in summer. Sword flower can not only cook ribs, but also chicken feet, black-bone chicken and squab, which are very delicious.
Winter melon, lotus seeds and barley soup with pig's feet
Ingredients: peeled wax gourd, washed and diced, about1000g; Coix seed and lotus seed * * *150g, washed; Pig feet for about 500 grams, washed, 4 candied dates, 20 grams of octopus, 5 kg of water.
Practice: Same as above, but put the wax gourd after. Cook the above raw materials for about 2 hours, then put the wax gourd, and then cook for about half an hour.
Chef's experience: wax gourd, lotus seeds and coix seed are all things that can remove fire. If you cook them together and drink them often in summer, you can get rid of dampness and heat. It is more suitable for children to drink this soup if they are sweating while sleeping.
What's the difference between cooking soup with lean meat, pig's moon show and pig's feet?
All three are delicious meats that can add soup. Generally, the meat quality of lean meat soup is rough. As for the latter two, I didn't find some words in the dictionary, which are probably words made by Cantonese themselves. However, the pig month exhibition refers to the lean meat of the pig's front foot, which is still tender, smooth and edible after being stewed for many hours. The pig's foot fight refers to the meat of the pig's front and rear feet facing the belly. Because of its fat, it is most suitable for cooking with melons, vegetables and octopus, which can add flavor to the soup.
In the above soups, you will find that almost every soup contains several candied dates. Jujube can not only adjust the taste of soup itself, but also play a role in removing dampness and moistening. Northerners love to put jujube in soup, but jujube is easy to make a fire when it is put into soup in summer, so it is most appropriate to choose candied jujube at this time. What is the purpose of putting octopus in the broth? Maybe someone will ask here. In fact, the role of octopus in soup is only to freshen up, and the taste of seafood will make your soup more delicious. In addition, the octopus mentioned here refers to small cuttlefish.
Remarks: It is appropriate to choose casserole for soup. Casseroles are prone to cracks when they are hot and dry. If your casserole is used for a long time, it should be used with caution. In addition to safety, in order to make the soup taste better, we should also choose some fine casserole products. In addition, take out the meat that has been boiled in soup, and mix it with Guangdong soy sauce, shredded onion, ginger and shredded pepper to make a dip. It is also very delicious to eat with.
You can try it.
1. Green carrot and pork soup
Ingredients: a catty of green radish (about 640 grams), four ounces of carrots (about 160 grams), four candied dates, twelve ounces of lean pork leg (about 400 grams), a small piece of dried tangerine peel, and a proper amount of water.
Practice: (1) Peel radish and cut corners; Wash the original pieces of pork; Soak the dried tangerine peel and wash it (2) Put the clean water and dried tangerine peel in a straight earthenware pot, bring it to a boil with high fire, add all the raw materials, and then roll it and simmer it for about three hours.
Note: (1) Buy radish in soup, it is better to be thick and heavy, with the top round and the bottom pointed. (2) This soup has therapeutic functions such as treating lung dryness, dry throat and eye dryness.
2. Clear and cool lean broth
Ingredients: 250g of lean meat (5 taels), raw and cooked Coicis Semen 1 0g (2 taels), 5g of lotus seed (1 taels), 5g of lily (1 taels), Huaisheng 1 0g (2 taels) and 5g of Polygonatum odoratum (/kloc).
* Wash all the ingredients for refreshing and cooling.
* Bring a proper amount of water to the boil, add all the ingredients, and cook for 3 hours until the soup is seasoned with salt and raw materials.
Efficacy This soup is sweet and nourishing, with mild and cool effects such as removing dampness and appetizing, removing phlegm and strengthening lung, etc. It is especially suitable for people with weak body and deficiency and is a timely soup in summer and autumn. [Summer soup]
3. Old pigeon soup for drying and moistening lung
Ingredients: about 500g of 2 pigeons, 20g of Adenophora adenophora, 20g of Polygonatum odoratum, 5g of Ophiopogon japonicus15g, 5g of ginger slices, 2000g of bone soup and a little salt.
Production: (1) Cut each pigeon into four pieces, blanch in boiling water pot, wash off blood and drain for later use.
(2) Put pigeon meat, washed Radix Adenophorae, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, Radix Ophiopogonis and ginger slices into a casserole, inject bone soup, cover it, simmer with slow fire for about 60 minutes until the meat is cooked and the soup is thick, and season.
Efficacy: nourishing yin and benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening and nourishing lung, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness.
4. dried cabbage and pork lung soup
[Composition] Pig lung120g, dried Chinese cabbage 90g, and 5 candied dates.
[Method ]( 1) Soak dried Chinese cabbage in clear water, cut it off, and soak it in boiling water to remove astringency; The candied dates are pitted and washed; Pig fee clean water is repeatedly cut into pieces, squeezed dry, then put into a pot to dry the water, then take it out and rinse it in clean water. (2) Put all the ingredients into the pot together, add a proper amount of clean water, boil it with strong fire, then simmer for two hours, and season it.
Indications: Chronic bronchitis is a dry and hot cough with symptoms of cough, asthma, scanty and sticky sputum, slightly hot dry mouth, dry throat and red tongue.
[Usage] Drink with the quantity
5. Radix Adenophorae and Lily Duck Soup
[Composition] Radix Glehniae, lily each 30g, fat duck meat150g.
[Method] Wash Radix Glehniae, Lily and duck separately, put them into the pot together, add appropriate amount of water, first boil with strong fire, and then stew with slow fire until the duck is cooked and rotten.
Indications: Nourishing yin and moistening lung, clearing heat and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for cough and expectoration, dry mouth and throat, tuberculosis cough caused by lung heat and yin deficiency.
[Usage] Drink soup and eat duck meat
6. Lotus root and soybean ribs soup
Ingredients: pork ribs, accessories: lotus root, soybean, jujube, coriander powder, seasoning: salt, cooking wine, chicken essence, broth, onion, ginger slices, soy sauce, pepper, cooking oil 1. Wash the ribs, cut them into pieces, peel and clean the lotus root, and cut them into pieces; 2. Ignition in a pan, add oil. When the oil temperature is 50% hot, pour in the ribs and stir fry. Cook the cooking wine, soy sauce, broth, pepper, onion, ginger, soybean, salt and lotus root, then pour them into a casserole, stew until the meat is bone-separated, and sprinkle with minced coriander when taking out of the pan. Features: delicious, fragrant and nutritious.
7. Recommend two kinds of bamboo shoots for soup in summer.
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Big bamboo shoots (hemp bamboo shoots or seedling bamboo shoots)+pig bones (or keels)+pickles+oil+salt (oil and salt were added later),
Boil it for about an hour, and the oil and salt should be moderate. It doesn't matter if you put more oil in the bamboo shoot soup than in other soups, because bamboo shoots will dissolve the oil. This soup is sweet and delicious, delicious, and produces saliva to quench thirst and digest food. Bamboo shoots taste good and taste good. The older the bamboo shoots, the longer it takes to cook this kind of bamboo shoot soup. In fact, the older the bamboo shoots, the tougher they bite and the more enjoyable they are. And tender bamboo shoots are more suitable for cooking.
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Bitter bamboo shoots+pig bone (or keel)+pickles+oil+salt (oil and salt were added later), and it was boiled for less than an hour. This soup is bitter and sweet, with unique flavor and endless aftertaste, especially for digestion and stagnation, and many people often don't want to eat in summer. If it is too bitter, you can soak the bitter bamboo shoots in cold water for an hour or two before cooking the soup, which can reduce the bitterness.
Big bamboo shoots are pagoda-shaped, and the vegetable market is generally available; Bitter bamboo shoots are long, and they are also bagged in supermarkets.
These days, I often cook these two kinds of bamboo shoot soup to drink, which feels good, and I recommend them to you.
8. The right medicine for women-soup
Women with poor sleep and dark skin
Cordyceps sinensis, an old turtle, has the effects of strengthening the spleen, calming the nerves and whitening the skin, and is a suitable tonic for white-collar women in all seasons.
A woman with weak spleen and stomach, great anger and a full face of peas.
Smilax glabra old turtle-clearing away heat and toxic materials, strengthening the spleen and stomach. If your urine is red and yellow, drink this soup. Smilax glabra has a heavy taste, so it should be covered by seasoning when cooking, which is also a good way to test cooking skills.
Women who are too busy and stressed.
American ginseng and soft-shelled turtle-Compared with ginseng, American ginseng is suitable for more people's tonic because of its mild nature, and it is suitable for all seasons, and the nourishing effect of soft-shelled turtle is well known. This soup is especially suitable for those white-collar women who are busy with work and have too much pressure. It can invigorate qi and nourish yin, clear fire and relieve annoyance, and nourish stomach.
Women who are dry in autumn and winter, have lung heat and cough with excessive phlegm.
Braised duck with cordyceps sinensis-the main function is to replenish lung and kidney, stop bleeding and resolve phlegm, but Chinese medicine pays attention to the coolness of duck meat, so it is more suitable for summer consumption. However, it should be noted that people with spleen and stomach deficiency and gastric ulcer had better not eat it, so as not to be counterproductive.
Women with cough and shortness of breath in winter
Lady Enforcers sparerib soup-clearing fire, moistening lung and invigorating qi, can be eaten frequently.
Women with irregular menstruation and rough skin
Red dates and black-bone chicken soup-red dates have been a good blood tonic since ancient times, while black-bone chicken can replenish qi and nourish yin, which is especially suitable for female friends. It has a certain effect on menstrual disorder and can be used for beauty if eaten frequently.
Women with stress headaches
Gastrodia elata Young Pigeon Soup-Gastrodia elata has a particularly good effect on headache, dizziness and numbness of limbs, while young pigeons are rich in nutrition and tender in taste, so they are favored by female friends who use their brains excessively.
9. Gourd and melon syrup
In hot weather, food supplement should be based on the principles of clearing away heat and eliminating dampness, with food supplement as the main one and medicine supplement as the second. This can supplement the body's consumption and improve health!
Cucurbita pepo syrup has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, relieving vexation and quenching thirst, and has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on hypertension, urinary calculi, aphtha, vexation, heat and thirst in summer.
[food efficacy]
Gourd and melon, also known as gourd seed and bulu, are sweet and cold in nature and enter the stomach and bladder meridian. Function of clearing away heat and diuresis, relieving vexation and quenching thirst.
[weight and usage]
Use 500 grams of gourd and melon each time, wash the skin and cut into pieces, add appropriate amount of water to make soup, season with rock sugar, and drink soup. The melon can be eaten or not.