What soup to drink in October?
First, beauty: old duck soup
In autumn, ducks are fat, and October is a good season to taste delicious ducks. Moreover, duck meat nourishes the yin of the five internal organs, clears away the heat of fatigue, nourishes blood and benefits water, nourishes the stomach and produces fluid, and is a good product in autumn. Drinking old duck soup often can also help beauty beauty to nourish yin and moisten dryness. Old duck soup should be "qualified" enough, and local ducks should be used for at least one year, so it will be simmered for 4 hours, and the more stewed, the more fragrant it will be. The best auxiliary materials for warming old duck soup are jujube, medlar, codonopsis pilosula and pickled ginger.
Recommended practice 1: Ginkgo wax gourd old duck soup
Ingredients: Ginkgo biloba 100g, wax gourd 1000g, Euryale ferox 20g, old duck 1, 3 slices of ginger, and dried tangerine peel 1/4.
Practice: shell ginkgo and iron clothes and cores with hot water; Wash Euryale ferox; Soak pericarpium Citri Tangerinae to remove pulp; Wash wax gourd with skin and cut into pieces; Wash the duck and remove the tail. Put it in a casserole with ginger, add 0 ml of water (about 12 bowl of water), cook for 2.5 hours with strong fire, and add appropriate amount of salt.
Efficacy: Stewed old duck with ginkgo biloba is a traditional nourishing dish. Duck meat is delicious, ginkgo biloba is tender, and the soup is clear and rich. It has the effects of nourishing body fluid, moistening lung and benefiting qi.
Recommended practice 2: chestnut old duck soup
Ingredients: half a duck, 250g chestnuts, 5g salt, 0g dried tangerine peel10g, and proper amount of water.
Practice: Wash dried tangerine peel, slice ginger, wash old duck, cut into pieces of moderate size, blanch in boiling water, and remove blood bubbles. Cut a hole in the case with a knife, soak it in boiling water for about 3 minutes, take it out while it is hot, and peel off the case. Put the old duck, dried tangerine peel and ginger slices into the soup pot together, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high fire and stew for 2 hours. Finally, add chestnut to continue stewing 1 hour, and add salt to taste when drinking.
Efficacy: Chestnut has the effect of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, while old duck is cold, which has the effect of nourishing the yang of five internal organs, clearing away the heat of fatigue, nourishing blood and promoting blood circulation, nourishing the stomach and promoting fluid production. Stewed chestnuts by old ducks can invigorate qi and spleen, strengthen tendons and bones, and moisten the stomach and lungs.
Second, enriching blood and benefiting qi: old pigeon soup
Almost all stew shops have pigeon soup. I asked a Cantonese chef who specializes in nourishing soup, and the answer was: If you want to eat young pigeons and eat meat, drink old pigeons to make soup; Young pigeons love beauty, and old pigeons supplemented with angelica, astragalus and red dates have the strongest blood-enriching effect. Modern medicine believes that pigeon meat is strong, energetic, brain-strengthening, blood pressure lowering, blood sugar regulation, beauty beauty, white and tender skin and longevity.
Recommended practice 1: roast, stew, stew, stew, stew, stew the soup of red dates and pigeons.
Ingredients: Stemona Stemona 12g, 4 red dates, squab 1 piece, 2 slices of ginger.
Practice: Bake Stemona, wash red dates and remove red dates. Slaughter and wash pigeons, remove fur claws and dirt, put them in boiling water for a while, and wash them. Put ginger and ginger in a casserole, add 1500ml (6 bowls) of water, boil with strong fire, then simmer for 2 hours, and add appropriate amount of salt and a little oil.
Efficacy: Baked Stemona is flat and sweet, and has the functions of moistening lung qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, so the soup has the functions of moistening lung qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It should be noted that people who cough due to phlegm heat should not drink it.
Recommended practice 2: Tricholoma matsutake pigeon soup
Ingredients: 1 Pigeon, Tricholoma matsutake, Coix seed 30g, Lycium barbarum, onion 3g and ginger 5g.
Practice: Tricholoma matsutake is washed away first, and then soaked in warm water. Cut off the tail with some hard stalks. Soak medlar and coix seed for a while. Put cold water in the pot, put the washed squab and boil water over high fire. At this time, the squab will release some blood and take it out. Add hot water to the casserole, put the pigeons with blood removed, and add some pine mushrooms to soak in water. Add ginger slices and shallots, bring to a boil and simmer. Add coix seed in about half an hour. Cook for a while, add pine mushrooms and continue cooking for about half an hour. After cooking, add medlar and salt and mix well.
Efficacy: Tricholoma matsutake has the effects of strengthening the body, benefiting the stomach and relieving pain, regulating qi and resolving phlegm, expelling worms and treating diabetes. Coix seed can clear away heat and strengthen the spleen, and beautify and remove spots. Pigeons nourish liver and kidney, nourish qi and blood, help poison and expel pus, and increase skin elasticity, so they are very popular with women.
Third, detoxification and beauty: white radish soup
There has always been a folk saying that "October radish and small ginseng", which shows that autumn wind is a good time to drink white radish soup. White radish is rich in calcium and vitamin C, with less calories, but a lot of cellulose. Mustard oil and cellulose in radish can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and help to excrete waste in the body. Using it to make soup can reduce blood fat, diminish inflammation and detoxify, nourish blood and rejuvenate skin.
Recommended practice 1: white radish crucian carp soup
Ingredients: white radish, crucian carp, onion, ginger, salt, chicken essence (optional) and vinegar (optional).
Practice: Carassius auratus 1 strip is washed, and the amount of white radish is appropriate. Slice white radish, the thinner it is, the easier it is to taste; Slice onion and ginger. Sauté ed onion and ginger, fried crucian carp on both sides. Add 1.5 times the capacity of the soup bowl. Cook the fish soup with high fire until the fish soup becomes milky white, and turn to medium fire to cook until the water volume is reduced to about 2/3; Add thin slices of white radish. Then cook the radish to moderate hardness and add a little salt. If you like, you can also add a little chicken essence to freshen up and a little vinegar to remove the fishy smell.
Efficacy: white radish crucian carp soup has the effects of warming the middle warmer, reducing qi, strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis. This soup is also wonderful in the "two white" ingredients. White radish soaked in milky white fish soup makes people look very appetizing.
Recommended practice 2: white radish beef brisket soup
Ingredients: 1 white radish, diced, 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: Wash the beef brisket with clear water and cut into pieces, then soak it in boiling water. Add a proper amount of water to the casserole, first boil it with high fire, then add all the above ingredients, continue to cook for about 2 hours with medium fire, and add a little salt to taste.
Efficacy: stewed beef brisket and white radish, the skin of white radish is crisp, the meat is tender and juicy, and it can regulate qi and help digestion. Beef is low in fat, which can enrich blood and make it stronger. White radish and beef are just the right golden combination, strengthening the spleen and promoting digestion.
Fourth, nourishing yin and moistening lung: lily soup
Lily is sweet, slightly cold, enters the heart and lungs, has the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving cough, clearing the heart and calming the nerves, and has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on autumn dryness. Lily is rich in nutrition, containing protein, vitamins, carotene and some special effective components, such as starch, polysaccharide, pectin and various alkaloids, which has a certain effect on inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells. Eating lily soup regularly can moisten the lungs and dryness, strengthen the spleen and enhance the taste, nourish the body, make people feel refreshed and anti-fatigue.
Recommended practice 1: Lily horseshoe jujube soup
Materials: lily 80 ~ 100g, horseshoe 200g and 4~5 candied dates.
Practice: Wash things separately. Lily is slightly soaked; Peel the horseshoe and cut it in half; Peel the candied dates. Put the clay pots together, add 1500ml water (about 6 bowls), boil with strong fire, then simmer to 1000ml (about 4 bowls), and add a little crystal sugar to dissolve.
Efficacy: Horseshoe has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, promoting digestion and resolving phlegm; Jujube can moisten lung, heart and body fluid. Together, it is a plain and sweet soup, moist and delicious, which can moisten the lungs, eliminate phlegm, nourish yin and moisten dryness. It is a good soup for moistening lung to prevent lung dryness in winter, and has a good auxiliary effect on yin injury caused by pathogenic heat, dry mouth and throat, fatigue and fright. And in dry autumn and winter, it is also very beneficial to drink plain sweet soup occasionally.
Recommended practice 2: Shashen Baihe Runfei Decoction
Ingredients: Glehnia littoralis 15g, lily 30g, five figs, lean pork 18g, dried tangerine peel 1 tablet.
Practice: Wash the fig first and cut it in half. Wash lean meat, splash water, and wash Radix Glehniae, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae and Bulbus Lilii. Put all the ingredients in boiling water, continue to cook for about two hours on medium heat, add a little salt to taste, and serve.
Efficacy: Radix Glehniae, lily and fig all have the functions of nourishing yin, moistening lung, moistening dryness and clearing throat. Together with lean pork nourishing yin, dried tangerine peel promoting qi and strengthening spleen, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, it can moisten throat, protect vocal cords and facilitate defecation.
What soup to drink in October? In addition to the above four kinds of health-preserving soups, there are lotus root ribs soup, yam soup, potato beef brisket soup, carrot ribs soup and so on, all of which are suitable for October. You can choose the most suitable health soup according to your actual situation.