Figs are usually divided into fresh figs and dried figs, both fresh and dried figs have good health care functions, especially in the fast-paced, highly polluted living environment that modern people live in, nourishing the yin and moistening the lungs, with anti-tumor and antioxidant effects of figs on the human body is especially beneficial. I prefer to use figs to make soup, which is also a very classic Cantonese soup, nourishing Yin to reduce dryness, as well as the effect of cough, young and old.

Materials

Main ingredient: 500g of lean pork, 6 figs, 2 jujubes;

Supplementary ingredients: salt

Lean Fig Soup

1

Clean the lean pork.

2

Cut into small pieces.

3

Soak the figs and clean them.

4

Wash the honey dates.

5

Place the cleaned figs and honey dates in a clean bowl and set aside.

6

Fill a saucepan with water and bring it to a boil.

7

Put in the lean pork.

8

Add figs.

9

Simmer on high heat for 10 minutes.

10

Turn down the heat and simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

11

After stewing, season with salt to taste.

Tips

Boiling soup is a longer cooking method, the mastery of fire and time has a greater impact on the quality of the soup. Generally the first fierce fire heating until the soup boiling, and then switch to the fire, to a longer period of time to heat until the raw materials soft, in the process of heating, some of the ingredients in the raw materials to dissolve, decomposition or dispersion of the soup, so as to form a fresh and thick beautiful soup.