Lotus seeds, with the heart removed when eating, can be eaten raw, cooked into soups, and can also be used as vegetables, sweets, cakes, preserves and medicinal foods. They are a traditional medicinal and food product. They have the effects of tonifying the spleen and kidneys, nourishing the heart and calming the mind. It can also calm impetuous inner fire, making people feel peaceful and fall asleep easily. Lotus seeds have high medicinal value and are treasures for nourishing vitality. As early as the Han Dynasty, "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" regarded it as the top grade. It is believed that lotus seeds are sweet, astringent, and neutral in nature. They have the functions of calming and calming the nerves, tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, nourishing the heart and kidneys, strengthening the spleen and stomach, clearing the viscera and moisturizing the organs. It has the effects of improving ears and improving eyesight, astringent intestines and anti-diarrhea, and can be used to treat weak spleen and stomach, loose stools, palpitations, irritability, insomnia and dreams, lack of energy and fatigue, loss of appetite after illness or postpartum, as well as blood deficiency and backache in women. Increased leucorrhea, menopausal syndrome, heart disease, high blood pressure, sexual dysfunction, etc.

Steps/Methods

Lotus meat cake: 200g each of lotus seed meat and glutinous rice (or rice), stir-fry until fragrant; 100g Poria (peeled). Grind the *** into fine powder, add an appropriate amount of sugar, mix well together, add water to make it into a puree, steam it, wait for it to cool, flatten and cut into pieces. Derived from "Three Books on Scholarships". Poria cocos is a spleen-tonifying and dampness-replenishing medicine. When eaten with lotus seed meat and glutinous rice in steamed cakes, it is particularly effective in tonifying the spleen and benefiting the stomach. Used for weak spleen and stomach, inability to digest food, loose stools, etc.

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Pi Yiwei Powder: 120 grams each of lotus seed meat, Gorgon fruit, lentils, coix seed, yam, Atractylodes, and Poria, 15 grams of ginseng (or 60 grams of Codonopsis pilosula) ). *** Fry and grind into powder. You can add appropriate amount of sugar before use. Use 15 to 30 grams each time and mix with warm water.

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Lotus seed, lily and Ophiopogon japonicus soup: 15 grams of lotus seeds (with heart), 30 grams of lily, and 12 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus. Add water to decoct and take. In this recipe, lotus seeds are used to clear the heart and calm the mind. Lily and Ophiopogon japonicus also have the effect of clearing the mind and calming the mind. It is used for residual heat after illness, insufficient heart yin, upset, dry mouth, palpitations and insomnia. 4. Lotus seed porridge: After 20 grams of lotus seeds are swollen, wipe off the surface with a brush in water, remove the lotus core, rinse it, put it into a pot, add water and cook it on the fire until thoroughly cooked, and set aside. Boil 100 grams of japonica rice, wash it, put it into a pot and add water to cook it into a thin porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add lotus seeds. When the porridge is cooked, add rock sugar or white sugar and stew it for a while before eating.

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Rock sugar lotus seeds: Soak the lotus seeds to absorb water, add rock sugar and steam them, then stew them thickly and eat them.

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Lotus seed and red date soup: Peel and cut two large pieces of lotus root into pieces, wash and drain; soak 4 ounces of red dates and 2 ounces of lotus seeds in water until soft, then scoop them out ; Boil the lotus root pieces, red dates, and lotus seeds with appropriate amount of rock sugar in water for 1 and a half hours until the ingredients are soft and translucent. It can replenish blood and moisturize skin. It is a medicinal tonic food for long-term fatigue and energy consumption.

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Red dates, white fungus and lotus seeds soup: 100 grams of red dates, 50 grams of white fungus, 100 grams of lotus seeds, and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Wash the red dates, white fungus, and lotus seeds and soak them in water. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot and add the 3 ingredients. After they are cooked, add sugar to taste.

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Tremella and lotus seed soup: 100 grams of lotus seeds, 15 grams of dried white fungus, 120 grams of fresh lily, 2 bananas, 5 grams of wolfberry. 100 grams of rock sugar. Soak the dried white fungus in water for 2 hours, remove the old stems and impurities and tear it into small florets. Add 4 cups of water and steam for half an hour. Take it out and set aside. Pull out fresh lilies, wash and remove old stems, wash and peel bananas, and cut into 0.3 cm pieces. Put all the ingredients into a stew pot, add seasonings and steam in a steamer for half an hour.

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Honey red lotus: simmer lotus seeds and red dates for 1 hour, then add sugar and lard, and simmer until the juice is dry. Add tremella to make lotus seed and tremella soup; add ginseng and an appropriate amount of rock sugar to steam and stew in water to make lotus meat and ginseng soup; add longan, red dates, and glutinous rice and boil it to make lotus seed and longan soup.

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Papaya, Lotus Seed and Lily Soup: The raw materials are papaya, lotus seeds, lily, red dates, white fungus, milk and rock sugar. Wash the raw materials and cut into small pieces, soak the lotus seeds and steam until cooked, soak the white fungus and tear into small pieces. Put the raw materials into boiling water and cook for half an hour. Add milk and papaya and finally add lily. Put it into a soup plate and garnish with mint leaves.

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Notes

Although lotus seeds are a very good staple food of grains and roots, they are highly Potassium, for patients with chronic kidney disease or dialysis who want to control their potassium intake, their intake must be controlled. Diabetic patients must include staple foods in their calculations to control their daily starch intake to avoid affecting blood sugar.