Mussel and seaweed lean meat soup

Basic features: nourish yin and reduce fire, clear away heat and phlegm. Symptoms of yin deficiency and internal heat include dizziness, dizziness, and tinnitus; or lung deficiency with heat leading to prolonged coughing, dry and painful throat, or phlegm-heat gathering to form galls. It can also be used for patients with yin deficiency, heat, and phlegm-fire stagnation such as hypertension, lymphadenitis, goiter, and chronic bronchial fire.

Basic ingredients: 180 grams of lean pork, 90 grams of mussels, and 60 grams of seaweed

Method: (1) Soak the mussels in water until soft and wash; Wash the pork, shred it, marinate it with oil, light soy sauce, salt and cornstarch for 10 minutes. Tear the seaweed into small pieces and fry it in a pot for a while to remove the fishy smell and grit. Soak it in water and wash it.

(2) Put the mussels into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil for 15 minutes, add the seaweed and boil again, then add the lean pork shreds and simmer until the meat is cooked, season and serve.

Explanation

This soup is commonly used at home to clear and replenish yin. The mussels in the soup are sweet, salty and cold in nature, and have the functions of lowering fire, nourishing yin, clearing the stomach and promoting body fluids. They contain protein, fat, sugar, nicotinic acid and vitamins (A, B), etc. The "Supplement to Materia Medica" says that it "maintains the treatment of deficiency, fatigue and strain" and "Blood Qi accumulation", "Suixiju Diet Spectrum" says it can "tonify the kidneys, replenish blood and essence", and "treat kidney deficiency and heat". Seaweed is sweet, salty and cold in nature and contains protein, fat, carotene, multivitamins, niacin, amino acids, iodine, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc. It is a nutritious seaweed that has the functions of reducing fire, removing phlegm, and softening and dispersing knots. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that "people with galls and beriberi should eat it", and "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine" says that it can "treat edema, gonorrhea, wet athlete's foot, goiter, and chronic bronchitis cough." Lean pork has a sweet and mild taste, and has The effect of nourishing yin and nourishing blood. Combined into a soup, it can nourish deficient yin fluid, clear away stagnation of hot phlegm, and reduce rising deficient fire. It is an ideal auxiliary treatment soup for yin deficiency or liver yang hyperactivity, and is also an excellent tonic after a fever. .

Cross carp in clear soup. Now is autumn, which is the time when crucian carp is at its fattest.

500G crucian carp, scrape off the scales and take out the internal organs, wash them clean and dry them.

Put 60G of rice wine in a large bowl, smear it all over the inside and outside of the fish and set aside.

Heat an iron pot and add 100G of cooking oil. When the oil temperature is 70-80%, sauté the onion and ginger slices until fragrant. Add the fish to the pot. Do not use the rice wine used to submerge the fish.

Carefully turn the fish over, add cold water, and cover the fish.

Bring it to a boil over high heat, then lower the heat to keep the soup boiling. The fire will destroy the fish.

After 20 minutes, the soup will turn milky white. Add salt and pepper. If you like the strong flavor, add MSG and cook. Put a few slices of cilantro in the bowl.

This dish is a good nourishing food for cancer patients after chemotherapy, but it is best not to add MSG.

It is better to have wild-caught fish. Fish with yellow backs are of the highest quality. Fish with black backs are best not to be eaten.

According to traditional saying, when the phenology is dry in autumn, the human body needs moisture. Therefore, it is appropriate to drink more soups that are nourishing to the lungs during this season, especially for women, who often drink soups that are suitable for their health and beauty. We recommend several special soups that are suitable for this season. They have the effects of nourishing the skin, losing weight, and relieving heat, and are more convenient to make at home. These soups are relatively neutral, with no strong anything in them, and can be drunk by the elderly and children.

◆Also known as Jazz Soup in Hong Kong, it is said to be Sir Run Run Shaw’s favorite health soup. The true color of the soup is milky white, very thick and white. It is best for women to drink. It has beautifying and moisturizing effects.

Ingredients: half a catty of honeydew melon (note, choose white-skinned and green-fleshed honeydew melon, a little raw, not too ripe), half a catty of fresh conch meat (if there is no fresh one, two taels of dry one is enough ), one pound of old hen.

Accessories: a small piece of ginger.

Method: It is best to use a traditional tall earthenware pot. If not, a tall stainless steel pot will also work. First boil the water (the amount of water is twice as much as the ingredients), add the ginger slices, snail meat, and chicken pieces, cook on high heat for half an hour, then medium heat for two hours, then add the honeydew melon cut into small pieces, and then medium heat. Half an hour is enough. The soup water at this time is about half to two-fifths of the initial water volume. Finally add salt to taste.

Tip: Fresh conch is not easy to clean because there is a layer of greasy liquid on the outside. Mix dry cornstarch and snail meat evenly and rinse with water to make it easy to clean.

Soak the dried snail meat in warm water for 1 hour, then wash and set aside; cut the hen into 6 pieces. If it is too fat, you can remove the skin from the chicken; but it is best not to remove the skin, as the chicken skin will make the soup fragrant.

◆Dried Luo Han Guo and Cabbage Soup

Use 1/3-1/2 Luo Han Guo, 50 grams of dried cabbage and 100 grams of lean pork each time. Wash the dried mangosteen and cabbage with clean water, wash and cut the lean pork into thick pieces, put the three ingredients into the soup pot, first use strong fire and then simmer the soup until the dried vegetables become soft and rotten. This soup can nourish yin, clear the lungs, moisten dryness and resolve phlegm.

◆Old Duck Soup with Adenophora and Polygonatum

This soup uses 50g of Adenophora, 30g of Polygonatum, and old duck (half a big one, one small one). First, remove the feathers and internal organs of the old duck, then cut them into thick pieces; wash the adenophora and Polygonatum odorifera. Simmer over medium to simmering heat for an hour and a half and season to taste. This soup can nourish yin and moisturize the lungs, nourish the stomach and promote fluid production.

◆Papaya Stewed with Rock Sugar

Choose a ripe papaya (one small one, half a large one), peel, core and cut into pieces, put it into a stew pot, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, Simmer over water for 1 hour. This product has the effect of nourishing yin, clearing and moisturizing the skin.

◆Jianhua Pork Lung Soup

30 grams of dried sword flower (250 grams if it is fresh sword flower) and 300 grams of fresh pig lung. First, wash the pig lungs with clean water and cut them into rough pieces; soak the sword flowers in water for a while and wash them. Then put the two into a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, simmer for one hour over high fire and then over slow fire, and season. This soup has the effects of moistening the lungs, clearing away heat, nourishing the lungs and relieving cough.

◆Southern almond stewed with snow pear soup

Take 12 grams of southern almonds, one snow pear, and 30 grams of white sugar. First soak the almonds in water and peel them, then cut the pear into four pieces. Put the almonds, pears, and white sugar into a stew pot, add 200 ml of water, and simmer for 1 hour, then drink the soup and eat the pears. This soup has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and moistening the lungs.

◆Rock Sugar Tremella Soup

First wash the Tremella to remove impurities, then soak in cold boiled water for 1 hour. Then put the fermented white fungus into a stew pot, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and cold boiled water, and steam for 2 hours. This soup has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, promoting fluid production and relieving cough.

◆Stewed pork lungs with olives and radish

It can prevent and treat autumn influenza, common colds, tonsillitis, and bronchitis. It can also assist in the treatment of flank pain caused by stagnation of liver qi, and Diet stagnation, etc.

[Materials] 150 grams of olives, 500 to 1000 grams of radish, and 1 pig lung.

Olives are used as a good medicine for treating pharyngitis and throat diseases in Chaoshan folk. As the saying goes, olives are the green dragon soup that cures laryngitis, and radish is the white tiger soup that cures laryngitis. Stewing radish with olives can be said to be a green dragon plus a white tiger. The former is warm in nature, sweet and astringent in taste, enters the lung and stomach meridian, and has the functions of reducing qi, promoting body fluids, quenching thirst, clearing the lungs, soothing the throat, relieving irritability, relieving alcohol, digesting and appetizing; the latter is slightly cool in nature and sweet and pungent in taste. Functions: strengthening stomach and digestion, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, smoothing qi and diuresis, clearing away heat and detoxifying. Pig lungs, which have the effect of nourishing the lungs, are combined into a soup, which has the functions of clearing away heat and soothing the throat, moistening the lungs and relieving coughs. It is a soup that treats both the symptoms and the root causes.

[Cooking] Wash and peel the radish and cut into pieces. Wash the olives and soak them in water for a while. Cut the pig lungs into thick slices, soak them in water and squeeze them clean with your hands. Put it into boiling water and cook for 5 minutes. Remove the cold water, drain the water, put them together in a clay pot, add 1000 ml of water (about 10 bowls of water), bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about 2 hours. Add appropriate amount of salt and raw oil and it is ready. This amount can serve 2 to 4 people.

◆Laohuo Soup for Clearing Heat and Moisturizing Dryness - Watercress, Candied Dates and Raw Fish Soup

Moisturizing and delicious, it can nourish the lungs and stomach, clear away heat and moisturize dryness, and can also assist in the treatment of dry throat Dry mouth, dry cough caused by lung heat, dry intestines and constipation, etc.

[Ingredients] 750g watercress, 5 candied dates, 500-600g raw fish, 120g pork meat, 3-4 slices of ginger.

Watercress is a vegetable in autumn and has the effect of clearing away heat and moisturizing; candied dates are mild in nature and sweet in taste, and have the effect of replenishing qi, promoting body fluids, and nourishing the lungs and stomach; raw fish are cold in nature and sweet in taste, and are good for strengthening the body. The spleen has the function of nourishing yin; pig meat has the same flat nature and sweet taste, and can strengthen the spleen and moisturize dryness; ginger is pungent and warm, can strengthen the stomach and remove dampness. If watercress is used with candied dates, it will be more refreshing and moisturizing; if raw fish is used with pig meat, it will strengthen the spleen through the use of raw fish and pork, so that the spleen can be strengthened and body fluid can be restored. Combined into a soup, it can clear away heat and nourish yin liquid, nourish the stomach and quench thirst, and moisturize the lungs and relieve cough.

[Cooking] First remove the fish scales and intestines from the raw fish, wash it, drain the water, heat the pan with oil, fry it briefly and scoop it up; wash the candied dates, remove the core and soak them briefly; Wash the meat; wash and chop the watercress; then put them into a clay pot together, add 1200 ml of water (about 12 bowls of water), bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 3 hours, add appropriate amount of salt and raw material The oil is ready. This soup can serve 3 to 4 people.

◆Autumn Bufei Decoction--According to the theory of correspondence between heaven and man in traditional Chinese medicine, the internal organs correspond to each other, and autumn belongs to the lungs. Therefore, autumn is the best time to nourish the lungs, replenish the lungs or treat lung diseases.

Southern Apricot Ginseng and Di Laoya Decoction

It has the effect of nourishing lung qi and nourishing kidney yin. It can also assist in the treatment of lung and kidney yin deficiency, which is caused by dryness of the lungs, dry cough, or cough. Thick phlegm, shortness of breath, etc.

[Materials] 12 grams of southern apricot, 30 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 30 grams of Rehmannia glutinosa, 12 grams of Fritillaria fritillary, 2 to 3 slices of ginger, and 1 old duck.

Southern apricots are slightly warm in nature, bitter and pungent in taste. Both northern apricots and northern apricots have the effect of relieving coughs and asthma, but southern apricots are better at nourishing the lungs and moisturizing the lungs and relieving coughs and asthma; Fritillaria apricots are slightly cold in nature and sweet in taste. , bitter, has the function of moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm. If combined with apricot, the effect of moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough will be better. Codonopsis pilosula is mild in nature and sweet in taste, not dry or greasy, and has the function of strengthening the spleen, replenishing qi and promoting fluid production; Rehmannia glutinosa is slightly warm in nature, sweet in taste, and can nourish kidney yin and quench thirst. It can be used together with Codonopsis pilosula to strengthen the spleen, nourish the kidneys and replenish essence. If the source of essence and fluid is sufficient, dryness of the lungs can be cured. Old duck is neutral in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and has the function of replenishing yin and nourishing liquid; ginger is pungent and warm, and can strengthen the stomach and remove fishy smell. Combined into a soup, it can nourish the lungs, nourish the stomach, relieve cough and reduce phlegm.

[Cooking] Blanch the apricots in boiling water to remove their clothes, wash the Codonopsis pilosula, Rehmannia glutinosa and Sichuan Fritillaria, soak for a while, wash the old duck and cut into pieces. Then place it in a clay pot with the ginger, add 1200 ml of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over slow fire for about 3 hours, then add an appropriate amount of salt and oil. This amount can be used by 2 to 3 people.