It's almost the summer heat in a blink of an eye. Time always goes fast, which makes us unprepared. It's a difficult time before and after the solar terms in the summer heat. At this time, there will be more rain, and with the high temperature, the whole person is like being placed in a steamer, and it's easy to have a cold.

When you don't want to eat, you may wish to drink more soup, which is nutritious and healthy. You don't have to worry about your energy supply, so today Xiaobian will introduce you to a soup suitable for drinking in the summer solar terms. Wax gourd and barley old duck soup, this soup nourishes the spleen and stomach, relieves summer heat and moistens the lungs. Family members often drink it well and don't cough.

Cooking steps

The ingredients to be prepared are: old duck, a small piece of wax gourd, coix seed, red dates and cooking wine.

Step 1: Clean the duck meat, put it in a pot with cold water, add a proper amount of cooking wine, heat and blanch the duck meat, then take it out and clean it.

Step 2: Go to a soup pot, put the washed duck meat into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, add Coicis Semen, red dates and ginger slices in turn, bring the water to a boil with high fire, and then turn to low fire and simmer for about 1 hour.

Step 3: Treat the wax gourd, remove the pulp of the wax gourd, cut it into small pieces, and you don't need to peel it. The wax gourd skin has a good heat dissipation and moisture removal effect, which is most suitable for eating in summer.

Step 4: When the time is almost the same, you can put the wax gourd into the duck soup and cook it for another 20 minutes. Until the wax gourd becomes soft, it means that we can basically cook. Finally, add the right amount of salt to taste.

In this way, delicious and simple health soup is ready, which is suitable for both the elderly and children. If there is a casserole at home, try to use it to make soup, so that the soup will taste better. It is also possible to use a rice cooker. You can choose according to your own situation.

Eating old duck in summer can strengthen the spleen and promote fluid production, nourish the five internal organs, and relieve symptoms such as cough. Drinking old duck soup in summer is more nourishing than mutton soup, while wax gourd and coix seed have the function of clearing heat and removing dampness, which can well discharge the moisture in our body in rainy season in summer. Try it quickly.