Chef recommendation
Braised chicken feet with lentils and barley
Efficacy: invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals.
Ingredients: chicken feet 40g, lentils10g, coix seed 7g, ginger slices.
Practice: First, remove the clothes and clean the chicken feet, cut off the toenails, then wash the lentils and coix seed, and then put them together with the chicken feet and ginger slices into a stew.
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 generally feels fresh and sweet.
Chef recommendation
Ginkgo and barley tripe
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 piece of ginger.
Chef's comment: The soup tastes mellow and sweet.
Chef recommendation
Stewed soup chop with gouqi head
Efficacy: tonifying deficiency and essence, clearing away heat and improving eyesight.
Ingredients: 60g of ribs, 0/0g of gouqi tou/kloc-,3g of wolfberry fruit, half a candied date, and appropriate amount of ginger slices.
Practice: First, wash the ribs and chop them into pieces, then wash the gouqi head and wolfberry fruit with clear water. Then put all the ingredients into the stew.
Chef's comment: when choosing ribs, you should choose Tang chops, not pork chops, because the pork chops are fatter and the soup is greasy when stewing. This soup has a strong meat flavor and is sweet.
Chef recommendation
Stewed raw fish with cabbage
Efficacy: nourishing yin, clearing heat, invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis.
Ingredients: 50g of raw fish, 5g of kudzu15g, 2g of candied dates, and appropriate amount of ginger.
Practice: Deal with raw fish and gut it, clean and chop it, rinse kudzu with clear water, and then put all the materials into the stew.
Chef's comment: Gecai should be soaked in clear water for a while to avoid pests. This soup has both the freshness of fish and the freshness of vegetables.
Seasonal soup
Sihai Restaurant has launched a lot of seasonal soups, and the chef has selected a few to give you a brief introduction.
Chef recommendation
Stewed old duck with lily, mulberry and green fruit
Efficacy: clearing away heat and dampness, strengthening spleen and caring skin Materials: lily, mulberry, olive and old duck (female)
Chef's comment: Mulberry has a good effect of clearing away heat and dampness. Lily is bought from Qinghai, and wild lily is said to have beauty effect. Olive fruit is actually Taiwan Province jujube, which also has the effect of eliminating dampness. The reason why an old duck chooses a female instead of a male is because it is said in folklore that the female is mild and the male is hot and dry.
Chef recommendation
Stewed Tang Pai with Juncus and Red Bean
Efficacy: Clearing heart fire, promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness Materials: Juncus, Semen Phaseoli and Tang Pai.
Chef's comment: Juncus is a common plant in the field, and Cantonese people often use it to boil herbal tea. Red beans are used to add flavor, while Tang pai is used to add flavor. The practice is relatively simple, and everyone can try it at home. This soup tastes fragrant with plants.
Chef recommendation
Stewed turtle shell with fresh poria cocos
Efficacy: cooling blood and detoxicating materials: fresh Poria, snake and tortoise plastron.
Chef's comment: Poria cocos is a commonly used Chinese medicine, which has the effects of strengthening the spleen and calming the heart. Tortoise shell has a good detoxification effect. Generally, pork is 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. The taste of this soup is sweet and salty, and the taste of medicinal materials is heavy.
Chef recommendation
Babao cold melon soup
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, nourishing spleen and lung.
Ingredients: Cucumber, Chenshen, Coix seed, Cishi, red meat, old chicken, green wings, bamboo shoots, soybeans, etc.
Chef's comment: Bitter gourd has the effects of detoxification and beauty. This cold melon was bought from Hainan, where there is more sunshine and bitter gourd tastes stronger. Chenshen is a dry product pickled with duck kidney, and the pickling method is similar to ham. Red meat is clean lean meat, and green wings are small shark wings. This soup tastes sweet and cool, especially 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 for 4 hours in water, and add appropriate amount of salt to taste.