What soup is cooked in August?
August, just before and after the summer heat, is about to turn into autumn, but the summer heat has not disappeared, so people tend to lose their appetite and consume a lot of body fluids, and it is easy to lose all kinds of nutrients, especially inorganic salts. So in summer, in addition to eating more green, we should also drink more soup! Cooking soup in August can not only relieve summer heat, but also replenish more nutrients lost by people in summer and prevent autumn dryness.
Recommendation 1: Prunella vulgaris black bean soup
Prunella vulgaris is a traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in Guangdong in summer and summer, and belongs to the category of clearing heat and purging fire. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature, bitter and pungent in taste, and has the effects of clearing fire, improving eyesight, dispersing stagnation and reducing swelling. Black beans are commonly used as food supplement beans in Guangdong. Some people mistakenly think that they are hot and dry. In fact, Chinese medicine thinks that they are flat and sweet, and have the effects of invigorating the spleen, inducing diuresis and detoxifying, and are suitable for people with spleen edema and beriberi edema. Chinese medicine also believes that it can nourish kidney yin, moisten lung dryness, control wind and heat, and promote blood circulation and detoxification. The two are combined into soup, which is used in this midsummer and autumn heat, and has the functions of water and calming the liver fire.
Ingredients: Prunella vulgaris 30g, black beans 50g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: Soak and wash the Prunella vulgaris, bag it with gauze or soup, soak the black beans and wash them, put them together in a clay pot, add water 1250 ml (about 5 bowls), simmer for about 30-40 minutes after boiling with strong fire, and add a proper amount of crystal sugar.
Recommendation 2: Lotus Pond Biguo Sweet Soup
Siraitia grosvenorii is cool and sweet, and has the effects of diminishing inflammation, clearing heat, relieving sore throat and moistening throat. Its peel can also be used for soaking in water or making soup. Lotus root can not only moisten the lungs and relieve summer heat, but also strengthen the spleen and promote appetite. Old people often eat lotus root, which can also benefit blood, calm the mind and prolong life. In addition, the ingredients of this sweet soup are cold, and people with cold stomach and diarrhea should not eat more.
Ingredients: 2 Siraitia grosvenorii, lotus root, red dates 10 or so, and a little rock sugar.
Practice: Wash the red dates with clear water and soak them in water for later use, then wash the outer skin of Siraitia grosvenorii, gently crack the outer skin with a knife and take out the pulp. Peel the lotus root, wash it and cut it into thin slices. Then put Siraitia grosvenorii meat and red dates into a pot, add about 1.5 liters of clear water, boil with strong fire, and then cook with slow fire for 20 minutes. Finally, add lotus root slices and crystal sugar, and simmer for 15 minutes.
Recommendation 3: Apple tremella soup
Apple is rich in crude fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help the human body to discharge waste smoothly, and reduce the harm of harmful substances to the skin. Apple also contains a lot of magnesium, sulfur, iron, copper, iodine, manganese, zinc, etc., which can make the skin delicate, smooth, ruddy and shiny. Tremella is rich in natural plant gum, and it can nourish yin. Long-term use can moisturize the skin and remove chloasma and freckles on the face. Apple tremella soup, cool annealing, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production.
Raw materials: apples, tremella, lilies and lotus seeds.
Practice: soak the tremella for more than 4 hours, cut into small flowers, and soak the lotus seeds and lilies in warm water for two hours. Then, wash the apples and cut them into pieces, put the tremella, lily and lotus seeds into the pot, and cook them on low heat for half an hour. Finally, add jujube, apple, rock sugar, and simmer over low heat.
Recommended recipe 4: Lotus leaf, winter melon and old duck soup
Wax gourd contains more vitamin C, higher potassium salt content and lower sodium salt content, which can be eaten by patients with hypertension, kidney and edema, so as to reduce swelling without damaging healthy qi. Propanolic diacid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the transformation of sugar into fat. In addition, wax gourd itself contains no fat and has low calories, which is of great significance for preventing people from getting fat and can also help to build a strong body. Fresh lotus leaves in soup can clear away summer heat and promote diuresis, while wax gourd can clear away summer heat. Old male ducks can nourish yin and blood, benefit the stomach and promote fluid production. The combination of the three can not only clear away heat, relieve summer heat and remove dampness, but also benefit the stomach and produce fluid.
Ingredients: a piece of fresh lotus leaf, 1 kg to 1.5 kg of fresh old wax gourd, and 1.5 kg of old duck male meat.
Practice: Wash the above three kinds of food, put them in a clay pot, add appropriate amount of water to make soup, season with salt, and drink soup to eat wax gourd and duck.
Recommended recipe 5: Dictyophora old duck soup
Zhusun old duck soup, especially suitable for drinking in hot summer, has good effects of relieving summer heat, promoting diuresis, invigorating qi and nourishing yin, moistening lung and clearing heat. Bamboo sun with duck soup is an excellent and classic match. Because Dictyophora dictyophora and old duck are foods with a slightly cooler taste, it is not easy to get angry in summer.
Ingredients: half a duck, Dendrobium nobile 1 0g, Dictyophora dictyophora 1 packet, ginger 1 small piece, scallion1segment, 20ml of cooking wine, 2l of clean water, and 2 teaspoons of salt1/.
Practice: Wash the duck, cut it into pieces, soak Dendrobium, put it into a soup bag, pat the old ginger flat, cut the green onion into small pieces, put the duck pieces, ginger and onion in a pot, pour clean water into the duck, boil it over high fire, remove the duck and ginger onion, rinse the blood foam with water, and then put it into a soup pot. Pour 2 liters of water into the soup pot, add Dendrobium officinale and cooking wine, cover the pot and boil over high fire, then turn to stew 1 hour. Remove the head of Dictyophora dictyophora 20 minutes in advance and soak it for 4 or 5 times repeatedly to clean the sediment. 1 hr, open the lid, add salt and monosodium glutamate, then pour in Dictyophora dictyophora, cover the lid and continue stewing for 20 minutes.
Recommended recipe 6: Lily lotus seed soup
Lily lotus seed soup is made of lotus seeds, lilies and so on. Lily and lotus seeds have the effects of nourishing the heart, calming the nerves, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. They are famous foods and also foods. Therefore, lily lotus seed soup, calming the nerves, nourishing the heart, strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, is the most suitable before and after the summer solar terms.
Ingredients: dried lily100g, dried lotus seeds 75g, crystal sugar 75g.
Practice: after the lily is soaked in water for one night, it is rinsed clean. Soak the lotus seeds for 4 hours and rinse. Put lily and lotus seeds in a clear water pot, boil with strong fire, add rock sugar, and cook for 40 minutes with slow fire.
Recommended recipe 7: fig sweet potato bitter melon soup
Figs have the effects of invigorating stomach, moistening intestine, relieving sore throat, nourishing yin and benefiting lung, and can prevent cancer. Sweet potato can tonify the spleen and stomach, replenish qi, nourish the face, clear away heat and detoxify, and the two are sweet and delicious in soup. Bitter gourd can clear away heat and purge fire, clear the heart and stimulate appetite, and it is refreshing and not greasy, and it feels cool and comfortable to enter the soup. Combined with vegetarian soup, it has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, relaxing bowels, benefiting spleen and moistening lung, and has a clear and delicious smell, which is suitable for men and women.
Ingredients: 200 grams of sweet potato, 0/20 grams of fig/kloc-,200 grams of bitter gourd and 2 slices of ginger.
Practice: Wash sweet potatoes, peel and cut into pieces; Soak figs; Wash the melon, remove the seeds and cut into pieces. Add water1750ml (about 7 bowls) into wok or pot, bring everything to a boil with strong fire, then bring it to a boil and simmer for about 45min, then add salt.
Recommended recipe 8: Stone Ear Sliced Meat Soup
Tremella fuciformis has high nutritional value and contains liver sugar, colloid, iron, phosphorus, calcium and various vitamins. It is a tonic with high protein, nourishing yin and moistening lung. Because of its heat-clearing and detoxicating properties, Tremella aurantialba can treat hematemesis, red collapse, painful urination due to heat, white turbidity, leucorrhea, dysentery, snake bite, burning, toothache and constipation, and also has the effect of lowering blood pressure. Tremella fuciformis is a good ingredient for clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping bleeding in summer. With some lean meat, the soup is refreshing and delicious, which is a rare product in August.
Raw materials: dried tremella 10g, lean meat 50g, eggs 1 piece.
Practice: Wash the tremella in advance. Beat the eggs and fry them into egg skins. Then cut into diamond-shaped pieces for later use. Slices of lean pork are mixed with cooking wine, salt and starch for later use. Blanch the tremella with boiling water. Pour olive oil into the wok and add chopped green onion. Stir-fry the sliced meat until it changes color. Rush in the right amount of boiling water. Add tremella. Add the egg skin. Boil and add salt. Season with pepper. Add a little chicken essence. Pour in sesame oil. Boil and turn on the fire.
Recommended recipe 9: Radix Pseudostellariae and Lily Thin Broth
Pseudostellaria heterophylla is flat in nature, sweet and slightly bitter, and has the functions of invigorating lung and spleen, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production; Lily is sweet and slightly cold, which can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, clear the heart and soothe the nerves; Siraitia grosvenorii is sweet, sour and cool, and has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, promoting fluid production and relieving cough, moistening lung and resolving phlegm. Therefore, the soup has the functions of benefiting qi, promoting fluid production, moistening lung and relieving cough, and is suitable for people who suffer from cough, asthma, shortness of breath, thirsty mouth and dry cough and throat.
Raw materials: Pseudostellaria heterophylla100g, 50g of lily, half of Siraitia grosvenorii and 750g of lean meat.
Practice: Wash lean meat and cut into thick pieces; Wash Radix Pseudostellariae, Bulbus Lilii and Fructus Siraitiae Grosvenorii. Put the ingredients into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, and simmer for about 2 hours.
Finally remind, but you can't use "ice" to relieve fever. Although it relieves summer heat after ice cooling, it is easy to chill the stomach and intestines, which will cause diarrhea, dizziness and other diseases. The hotter the weather, the more obvious this situation is. You can't replace drinking water with iced summer soup. Pay attention to eating soup, especially the main ingredients. Eating soup with ingredients before meals can supplement the essential nutrition of human body, which is extremely beneficial to the "bitter summer" people.