After entering summer, many people like to turn on the air conditioner, then have a cold drink and enjoy it. A short summer vacation is good for us. However, many people like to stay in air-conditioned rooms for a long time, or sleep with the air conditioner on all night. Although these behaviors are also a way of life that makes us comfortable, problems will inevitably occur after a long time, and heavy humidity is more common. In fact, in summer, a small amount of sweating can take away some metabolic wastes and heat of the human body and regulate the stability of the internal environment. Just sweat moderately, and don't stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time to suppress your body temperature.

If you are often in such an environment, you should go outside and get some fresh air. Of course, if you can't stay in these environments for a long time, you might as well make soup with old cucumbers. Just drink it a few times a week. This is seasonal soup in summer, and many people don't know it. First of all, I want to talk about the function of old cucumber. According to ancient records, the old cucumber is cool and sweet, which has the function of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, and is especially suitable for making soup with old cucumber in summer.

It is also matched with three kinds of small ingredients, which interact with each other to make the drinking value higher. These three small ingredients are coix seed, Ge Fen and red beans. Without them, it can be said that the value of this soup is reduced by half. Let's see how to make this soup.

Required materials: one old cucumber, eight chicken feet, coix seed, glutinous rice, red beans, salt and cooking wine.

1. First cut the chicken feet with a knife, and then wash them. The purpose of the incision is to separate the influence from the chicken feet for easy absorption.

2. Wash Coicis Semen, Ibaraki and adzuki beans twice, and then soak them in clear water.

3. The old cucumber scrubbed the skin with steel balls and cut it into small pieces. The skin of old cucumber is edible and has a good pharmacological effect. Don't waste it

4. Add a proper amount of water to the pot, then put the chicken feet into the water, and add yellow wine to blanch for 2 minutes. The purpose of blanching is to remove the fishy smell of chicken feet, and the other is to clean the dirt on chicken feet at high temperature.

5. Add water to the casserole, then pour in the soaked Coicis Semen, Cishi and adzuki beans, then put the chicken feet in the casserole, bring them to a boil with high fire, and then turn to medium heat to continue cooking for one hour.

After an hour and a half, you can pour the old cucumber into the soup. Old cucumbers are easy to cook. Just pour them out 30 minutes before cooking.

7. Continue to cook for 30 minutes and then add a little salt. That is to say, this soup is cooked for 1 hour, then the coix seed, Ge Fen and adzuki bean are cooked until soft and rotten, and then the old cucumber is added and cooked for 30 minutes.

This old cucumber glutinous rice soup tastes sweet and tastes like chicken soup. It is really delicious.

Old cucumber is changed from green cucumber. When it is ripe, let it ripen and don't pick it until its appearance turns yellow completely. This is the origin of the old cucumber. Its nutritional value is even higher than that of tender cucumber. The skin of old cucumber has certain pharmacological effects, such as clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and is rich in vitamin C and vitamin B.