1. Wash hawthorn, dark plum and lotus leaf with clear water.

2. Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water for 20 minutes.

3. Wash the ribs and chop them into small pieces. Blanch in cold water for about three minutes, skim off the floating foam and remove it for later use.

4. Add enough water to the casserole, heat it over medium heat, and then add the blanched ribs, hawthorn, dark plum and coix seed.

5. After the casserole is opened, cover the pot and simmer for 2 hours.

6. Add lotus leaves, simmer for 10 minute, remove the lotus leaves, and season with salt before turning off the fire.

Tips:

(a) hawthorn alias red fruit, rouge fruit, hawthorn, monkey hawthorn, sea red, hawthorn. Hawthorn contains tartaric acid, citric acid, saponin, fructose, vitamin C, vitamin B, nicotinic acid, calcium, iron, selenium, flavonoids and other nutrients, among which the content of vitamin C is second only to jujube and kiwifruit. The content of carotene and calcium is also high.

(2) Mume is rich in nutrition, sour in taste and flat in nature. It can enter liver meridian, spleen meridian, lung meridian and large intestine meridian, and has the effects of astringing lung, astringing intestine, promoting fluid production and regulating stomach. Mume is a kind of medicinal and edible plant. It contains 8 kinds of amino acids such as threonine and flavonoids. It is very beneficial to the normal composition and metabolic function of protein, and can prevent cardiovascular diseases.

(3) Lotus leaves are bitter in taste and cool in nature, and enter the heart, liver and spleen meridians; The fragrance rises and falls; Has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen, strengthening yang, removing blood stasis, and stopping bleeding. Lotus leaf also has antioxidant, weight-reducing and lipid-lowering effects and antibacterial effects.