Practice of rock sugar mung bean soup
1, soak mung beans in water for several hours. Because the bought mung beans are dried or dried, they are very hard, so they must be soaked and boiled first so as not to waste time. And the soaked mung beans are cleaner.
2. Pour the soaked mung beans into a pot or rice cooker, add appropriate amount of water and start cooking. Note that mung beans have to be cooked for several hours. Open the lid occasionally to pay attention to whether the water is dry or not, and then add water when it is almost dry.
3. When mung beans are cooked into paste, add appropriate amount of rock sugar according to personal taste and stir. Continue to cook for about half an hour.
4. Open the lid of the pot. After the mung bean soup is cold, put it in the refrigerator and then serve it out. Cool the entrance and clear away heat and relieve summer heat.
Efficacy and function of rock sugar mung bean soup
1, clearing heat
Mung beans are cold and have a particularly good heat-clearing effect. However, its heat-clearing ingredients mainly exist in its seed coat. Usually, when people cook rock sugar mung bean soup, they should pay attention to time control. It is best to cook it for six or seven minutes after boiling, and then take it out directly when the soup is green, so that its heat-clearing effect can be brought into full play.
2. Detoxification
Detoxification is one of the important functions of rock sugar mung bean soup, which can clean up a variety of toxins accumulated in the human body and reduce the harm of some chemicals to the human body. However, if you want to make the well-made rock sugar mung bean soup have excellent detoxification effect, you should pay great attention to it when cooking. You must put the rock sugar and mung bean into the pot, add water to cook it until later, and cook it for a long time, so that the mung bean in the pot is soft and rotten, and the color of the indica soup is turbid, so that its detoxification effect can be brought into full play.
3. Accelerate body metabolism
The rock sugar mung bean soup is rich in alkaloids, coumarins and phytosterols. After being absorbed by the human body, these substances have a good role in promoting the physiological and metabolic activities of the human body. Therefore, drinking more rock sugar mung bean soup at ordinary times can promote the body's metabolism, reduce toxin deposition, and also play a certain role in losing weight.
4. Nourishing Yin and Producing Body Fluid
Crystal sugar mung bean soup tastes sweet and flat, can enter the lung and spleen meridians, can tonify the middle energizer, moisten the lungs with the stomach, and nourish yin and produce essence. It has obvious preventive and regulatory effects on many common diseases such as lung heat cough, cough and asthma, and lung dryness. In addition, drinking more crystal sugar mung bean soup at ordinary times can reduce the occurrence of mouth and tongue diseases and toothache caused by wind and fire.
Can mung bean soup be made without sugar?
Of course. Sugar is mainly used to increase sweetness and adjust taste. Some people can't reduce fire without adding sugar, which is wrong. Mung beans are the main force to reduce fire. Adding rock sugar to reduce fire is just better, and it is ok without adding sugar.
Can you put brown sugar in mung bean soup?
It's also possible. Mung beans can clear away heat and detoxify, and brown sugar can replenish blood, which is also a good match. However, when cooking, put half a spoonful of brown sugar in a bowl of mung bean soup, and try not to be too sweet, because it is hot in summer and it is not good to eat something too sweet.