Folk saying: "Monopterus albus participates in summer". The nutritional feature of Monopterus albus is that it is rich in lecithin, which can form cell membranes of various organs and tissues of human body, and contains a special substance "eel element", which can reduce and regulate blood sugar. Chinese medicine believes that it is warm and sweet, can dispel wind and promote blood circulation, strengthen yang and tonify deficiency, and strengthen bones and muscles. Summer eel can nourish people best within one month before and after the slight summer heat, and it is better to have a big and yellow abdomen. Stewed with traditional Chinese medicine Beiqi, jujube and black beans, it is a cool and nourishing product in summer, especially suitable for women and middle-aged and elderly people to replenish blood.

Ingredients: 20g of Beiqi (available in Chinese medicine shops), 4 Chinese dates, 80g of black beans, 400g of Monopterus albus, 0/00g of trotters tendon/kloc, and 4 slices of ginger.

Cooking: Monopterus albus is washed with hot water or salt to remove mucus, slaughtered, fried until slightly yellow, and splashed with a little water; Wash pig's trotters and cut into pieces; The rest of the things are slightly soaked. Put the clay pots together, add 2500 ml of clear water (about 10 bowl), cook for about 2 hours with strong fire, and then add salt. Suitable for 3~4 people.

Braised Monopterus albus with Lycium barbarum Ingredients: Monopterus albus 500g.

Accessories: Radix Astragali 20g, Fructus Lycii 10g.

Seasoning: ginger 3g salt 3g monosodium glutamate 1g pepper 1g each.

Exercise:

1. Slaughter Monopterus albus, eviscerate it, cut it into 5cm long sections, and then rinse it with clear water;

2. Wash Radix Astragali and Fructus Lycii with water respectively;

3. Put the washed Monopterus albus segments, Astragalus membranaceus and ginger slices into a saucepan, pour chicken soup and boil, and skim off the floating foam on the surface;

4. Add Lycium barbarum, cover it, and simmer for about 40 minutes;

5. Add salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper to taste.

Features: This dish is delicious, and the eel meat is fresh and tender, which is a good tonic in winter.

1, Beiqi Monopterus albus soup: 500g Monopterus albus; Dry yam15g; 6 red dates; 200 grams of lean meat; A small piece of dried tangerine peel; Beiqi: 20g ginger, 3 slices; 8 bowls of water (3-4 people)

1. When buying Monopterus albus, please ask the master to cut it, clean it, scrape off the "smooth gurgling sound" of the epidermis with the back of the knife and soak it. Don't scrape, soak and clean;

2. Wash and cut the lean meat into pieces and soak it in water;

3. Wash Radix Astragali, Rhizoma Dioscoreae and Fructus Jujubae, pat the Fructus Jujubae flat and remove the core;

4. Wash the dried tangerine peel and scrape off the pulp;

5. Boil the water, add all the ingredients, cook for 20 minutes on high fire, then turn to low fire for one and a half hours, and season with salt.

Efficacy: tonify qi and blood, strengthen bones and muscles, nourish liver and kidney, and lower blood sugar. It is especially suitable for dietotherapy and invigorating qi and blood during confinement. However, Monopterus albus moves in the wind, and those with itchy skin diseases are forbidden to eat; People with chronic diseases, such as bronchial asthma and lupus erythematosus, should eat carefully; In addition, dysentery patients are not suitable for eating if the disease belongs to deficiency-heat or heat syndrome.

2. Mulberry parasitic reed root eel soup: it has the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, benefiting qi and nourishing yin. It is recorded in Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine that chronic hepatitis can be treated by this method. Taxilli is a common folk medicinal material, which has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, strengthening tendons and bones, expelling wind and dampness, dredging meridians, nourishing blood and preventing miscarriage. "Compendium of Medical Forests" Reed said that it can "moisten the circulating water", while Monopterus albus and Bielu thought that it "mainly tonifies the middle energizer and nourishes the blood".

Ingredients: 60g of Taxilli, 30g of Phragmites communis (available in Chinese medicine shops), 2-3 pieces of Monopterus albus and 3 pieces of ginger.

Cooking: washing and soaking Herba Taxilli and Rhizoma Phragmitis; Slaughter Monopterus albus, cut it into sections, put ginger in boiling water and wash it (that is, "flying water"). Put them together in a clay pot, add 2000 ml of clean water, boil the pot with high fire, and then change it to slow fire for about 1.5 hours, and add appropriate amount of salt.

3, Hu Aishan eel soup: eel yam, mushrooms, coriander seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, pepper, cooking wine.

1. Wash the eel with flour to remove mucus, add water to the pot, add cooking wine, put it in the eel section and blanch for a while;

2. Cut yam into hob blocks, blanch and store, fry until the surface is slightly yellow and store for later use;

3, leave the bottom oil in the pot, add the mushrooms and eels after the chives and ginger are fragrant, add cooking wine, pour appropriate amount of boiling water, add yam to boil, then simmer for 5 minutes, add salt, pepper, sugar and monosodium glutamate to taste, and sprinkle with coriander.

4, Huangqi Nanzhao Huangqi Decoction: can warm the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and blood, and replenish deficiency.

Ingredients: 20g of Astragalus membranaceus, 8 jujubes, 500g of Monopterus albus, 300g of pork and 3 slices of ginger.

Cooking: cleaning Radix Astragali and Fructus Jujubae, slightly soaking, and removing the core of Fructus Jujubae; Pork washing without a knife; Wash the slaughtered Monopterus albus, put it in hot water, take it out, wash away the mucus, dry the water, marinate it with salt for 15 minutes, and fry it until it is slightly yellow. Put it in an earthenware pot with ginger, add 2500ml (10 bowl) of water, simmer for about 2 hours, and add appropriate amount of salt.

5. Salted eel soup: 500 grams of wild eel. Private bacon (thigh meat) 100g, some garlic and other seasonings.

1) First cut the bacon into thin slices and drain the water for later use.

2) Slaughter the Monopterus albus, cut it into sections and wash it for later use.

3) Start cooking, add eel segments and bacon slices, and then add seasonings such as garlic, salt and yellow wine. There must be more water and less seasoning here. Because of the slow fire. So I put a lot of it in the beginning, and it will become very salty when I cook it.

After boiling, reduce the fire to a minimum and simmer slowly. Remove the foam when cooking.

Usually boiled for 30 minutes, the soup will turn milky white. At this time, eat Xiantou' an first and then taste it. Finally, you can eat it when it is boiled.

6, Chuanxiong Danggui Huangpi Decoction: rheumatoid arthritis, scapulohumeral periarthritis. : Ligusticum Chuanxiong 10g, Angelica sinensis 12g, Monopterus albus 200g, Cinnamomum cassia twig 5g and 5 red dates.

Seasoning: salt.

1. Wash Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Ramulus Cinnamomi; Washing jujube, soaking, and removing core;

2. Cut the Monopterus albus, gut it, wash it, put it in a boiling water pot, remove the supercooled water, scrape off the mucus and cut it into long sections;

3. Put all the ingredients in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, then simmer for 2 hours, and season with salt.

Tips: Chuanxiong is warm, and its "Ligustrazine" can dilate cerebral vessels, increase cerebral blood flow, and promote blood circulation and dispel wind.

Health tip: Monopterus albus should be cooked with fresh Monopterus albus, and it is not advisable to use Monopterus albus that has been dead for several hours, otherwise it will cause poisoning after eating.

Features: This soup has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, promoting qi circulation and dispelling wind, and relieving pain. It can be used for treating postpartum abdominal pain due to blood stasis and arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness in winter.

Suitable for people: everyone can eat it. Especially for growing teenagers, pregnant women and the infirm, it is especially suitable for eating more.

Efficacy: Chuanxiong is warm and pungent, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, expelling wind, relieving pain and resolving phlegm. Angelica sinensis is warm, sweet and pungent, enters the heart, liver and spleen meridians, and has the effects of enriching blood, promoting blood circulation, moistening intestines, regulating menstruation and relieving pain. Monopterus albus is warm and sweet, and has the effects of tonifying middle energizer, nourishing blood, tonifying deficiency, strengthening bones and muscles, expelling wind and removing dampness. Ramulus Cinnamomi is warm in nature, pungent in taste, sweet in heart, lung and bladder meridians, and has the functions of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming meridians and activating yang. Jujube is warm and sweet, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production.