Practice of making soup with Wuzhitao and Smilax glabra
Wuzhimaotao Smilax China Pig Bone Soup is a kind of China medicated diet, which belongs to Cantonese cuisine. The weather is sultry and rainy, which makes people feel wet and sleepy. Chinese herbal medicines, Wuzhitao and Smilax glabra, have the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, eliminating dampness and strengthening the waist, and the soup is just the right time.
People who don't know what new peach it is may think when they hear the name Wuzhitao. In fact, it is a kind of plant, which grows in the deep mountains of Shaoguan and Heyuan in Guangdong. Its leaves look like five fingers, and its fruit looks like a peach when it is ripe, hence its name. Five-finger nectarine has roots in medicine, invigorating spleen and lung, promoting qi and diuresis, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals.
In traditional Chinese medicine, Wuzhitao is also called Nanqi, which is Astragalus in the south. This shows that it not only has the function of invigorating qi and strengthening spleen of Astragalus membranaceus, but also has no warmth of Astragalus membranaceus, so it is very suitable for southern climate application. Cantonese people like to use it to make soup with pork bones, chicken and so on. , in order to dispel summer heat and dampness. Practice: Wash the five-finger peach and Smilax glabra, soak them slightly, chop the pig's spine into pieces, wash them, soak them in clear water, boil them, add all the ingredients, cook them on high fire for 20 minutes, then stew them on low fire for one and a half hours, and season them with salt.
Boiled Wuzhimaotao soup can often be combined with Coicis Semen, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Mume Fructus, Oxalis, etc., and meat such as chicken, chicken feet, pig bones, etc., which is a good conditioning product for removing dampness and strengthening tendons. When we buy five-finger peaches, first of all, it depends on the color, generally brown is better; The second is to pick the texture, but the effective components of thick black are few and the roots are thin. The third is smell, which does not contain sulfur. A good five-finger peach has a faint coconut fragrance.