Every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, my mother will cook some brown sugar and mugwort eggs for us to eat, is a habit that has continued since childhood. The nutritional value of brown sugar mugwort eggs is very high, and the mugwort leaves themselves have the effect of repelling mosquitoes, repelling mosquitoes and warding off evil spirits. In the Dragon Boat Festival season, it is easy to occur some mosquito bites, so it will be used to boil water to clean the skin, which can also play a role in sterilization and anti-inflammatory. Using mugwort leaves to add brown sugar to cook out of the egg, for the cold people is very good, especially the cold body to drink this brown sugar water boiled eggs is very helpful.
The ingredients to be prepared are:30 grams of mugwort leaves, a little brown sugar, 45 grams of dried ginger, 6 eggs.
Production steps:After the mugwort is retrieved, first remove the leaves from the branches and trunks of the mugwort, using only the fresh and tender leafy part, put it into the water and rinse it well. The shell of the egg is very bacterial, so be sure to put it in the water to rinse it out. You can add a little white vinegar to the surface of the egg to clean it, so that it is washed more thoroughly. Rinse the surface of dry ginger and cut it into slices. In a pot of water, add the mugwort leaves, eggs, dried ginger slices, cover the pot with a lid and bring it to a boil on high heat, then turn the heat to medium to cook the eggs. Take a leaky spoon, fish out the eggs, and then put them into cool water to soak for a while, remove the shells of the eggs and put them back into the pot to continue to cook for ten minutes. Then put the brown sugar in the pot and simmer for two minutes, open the lid and use chopsticks to take out the leaves and throw them away. Boiled eggs with a leaky spoon out into a bowl, pour the brown sugar water, eat eggs and drink soup, take it while it's still hot and more nutritious.
Cooking tips:
Boiled eggs then put into cold water to take out, and then peeled very convenient, to be able to peel out the whole egg, if you omit this step of cold water, peeling is more difficult, it is easy to peel the egg bad. Mugwort is a kind of Chinese medicine, this soup can be regarded as a kind of medicinal soup. It is especially good for women with irregular menstruation, weak uterine cold and cold pain in the abdomen. The water boiled with mugwort leaves can also treat itchy skin, eczema and so on. This soup is good, but it is not suitable for all people, for Yin deficiency blood heat must be forbidden to eat mugwort water. Furthermore, for people with high fever, weak liver and kidney function must not be consumed.