Wuzhimaotao chicken soup is one of the traditional classic old fire soups, which can be said to be a very famous food in Guangdong. Since ancient times, Hakka people have had the habit of digging the roots of five-finger peaches to cook chicken, pig bones and pig feet as health soup.

Peach with five fingers is not a fruit, but a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine. Five-finger peach, known as Guangdong ginseng, has always been a popular old fire soup.

The remaining five systems of Maotao Huangqi Jianti decoction can nourish yin, reduce fire, strengthen spleen, stimulate appetite, clear liver and moisten lung. This recipe is served with spiral slices, five-finger peaches, Chinese yam, round meat, astragalus, dried tangerine peel, candied dates and shredded chicken with bamboo.

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, Wuzhimaotao decoction has the effects of clearing liver-fire, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, detoxicating and relieving summer-heat, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, eliminating dampness and resolving hard mass, calming nerves and caring skin. Paired with spiral tablets for nourishing kidney and strengthening spleen, yam, round meat and astragalus root, and black-bone chicken for nourishing yin and clearing heat, nourishing liver and benefiting kidney.

Wuzhimao Huangqi Health Soup is a delicious soup with health-preserving effect, especially Wuzhimao. The soup cooked with it has a unique fragrance, with a faint coconut fragrance, and the orange peel that regulates qi and relieves depression makes the soup more fragrant, moist and sweet. It is a health soup suitable for all ages.

(3-5 people)

Ingredients: one or two spiral slices, 30g of five-finger peach, 20g of yam, 20g of round meat, 3g of Astragalus membranaceus 1 8g, 3g of dried tangerine peel, 3 candied dates, shredded bamboo chicken1piece, and a proper amount of salt.

Practice: 1. Soak the screws in clean water.

2. Wash the shredded chicken in bamboo tube, chop it into pieces and blanch it in cold water.

Step 3 clean other medicinal materials

4. Add a proper amount of water to the casserole, and add shredded bamboo chicken, snail and other medicinal materials.

5. Bring the fire to a boil and simmer for three hours.

6. Season with salt.

Whisper in the kitchen: put enough water at once, don't add water halfway. If you can't drink it all at once, you can put it in the refrigerator.

Five-finger peach is a common soup material in Guangdong. The part used is actually the rhizome of this plant. Its leaves are shaped like five fingers and bear the fruit of peaches, hence the name. Five-finger peach is also called "Nanqi" because it has the effects of invigorating qi and tonifying deficiency, promoting qi circulation and relieving depression, strengthening tendons and activating collaterals, strengthening spleen and eliminating dampness. Deng Tietao, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, thinks that Nanqi is mild in nature, light in taste, beneficial to qi and spleen, which is very suitable for the humid climate in the south.

The soup boiled with five-finger peaches tastes like coconut milk and tastes good. Besides stewed chicken with five fingers and peaches, stewed pig bones, pigeons and pig feet are all common collocations. In order to obtain different effects, you can also add some herbs, such as Smilax glabra or Millettia speciosa, to enhance the effect of eliminating dampness or strengthening bones and muscles.

Finger-fingered peach pig's hand soup is a common soup made by Hakka people in Guangdong. Five-finger peach is not a peach, but the root of a plant, which is abundant in Hakka area of Guangdong. Five-finger peach can strengthen the spleen and benefit the lung, promote qi circulation and diuresis, relax tendons and activate collaterals, and can also be used for postpartum breastfeeding. So Hakka people will use it to stew soup with pig's hands and give it to new mothers after delivery, hehe. Five-finger peach has a coconut fragrance, and the stewed soup is very sweet. It is nutritious and worth drinking with pig hands.

Five-finger peach pig's hand soup Ingredients: pig's hand1000g, 50g of five-finger peach, one carrot and proper amount of salt. Practice: 1, the pig's hand is washed and cut into large pieces.