Farewell My Concubine (Turtle Stewed Chicken): Nourishing Yin and Tonifying Kidney
Ingredients: 3 kg soft-shelled turtle, native chicken 1, 2 winter bamboo shoots, ham 1, ginger 1, onion 1, wolfberry 1, salt.
working methods
1. After killing the water fish, you should blanch it with boiling water to remove the blood foam, and you can also blanch the chicken (I fished the floating foam again before cooking the chicken).
2. Put all the materials except Lycium barbarum into the casserole and cook for about two hours on high fire, skimming the oil twice in the middle, because the native chicken and turtle are rich in oil. In addition, pay attention to those rich in gum and don't stick to the bottom of the pot.
3. Before turning off the fire, remove the onion, sprinkle with medlar, and add salt (put a small piece of ham delicious, but also a little salty, pay attention to salt).
Efficacy: Chicken is sweet and salty, warm in nature, and enters the liver and spleen meridians. Rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, nicotinic acid and other nutrients. Eating it has the effects of tonifying deficiency, nourishing liver, improving eyesight and improving human immunity. Turtle, also known as turtle, is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of nourishing yin, cooling blood, tonifying middle energizer, tonifying kidney, strengthening bones and dispersing stagnation.
3 American ginseng turtle soup: Yiqi Bushen
Ingredients: about 500g live soft-shelled turtle, water 1500ml, 25g slices of American ginseng, 8 red dates, 3 slices of ginger, 5ml teaspoon of yellow wine and 3g+0/2 teaspoon of salt.
working methods
1. Remove the head and internal organs of the turtle, cut it into four pieces, and wash it for later use.
2. Pour the water into the soup pot, boil it with strong fire, then pour the yellow wine, blanch the turtle block and turtle shell in boiling water for 2 minutes, then take it out and tear off the transparent hard skin inside the turtle shell.
3. Wash American ginseng and red dates with clear water for later use.
4. Put1500ml of water into the casserole. After the fire boils, add the soft-shelled turtle and cook for 2 minutes. If there is floating foam, skim it off.
5. Then add American ginseng, red dates and ginger slices, cover and cook for 2 hours. Season with salt before eating.
Efficacy: American ginseng is bitter in taste, slightly sweet, cold in nature, centering on the heart, lung and kidney meridians, benefiting qi and nourishing yin, clearing fire and promoting fluid production, and being stewed with turtle can benefit qi and kidney and enhance immunity.
Braised turtle with cordyceps sinensis and red dates: tonifying kidney and moistening lung.
Ingredients: turtle 300g, Cordyceps sinensis 1 0g, jujube 1 0g, ginger10g, salad oil 800g, clear soup120g, salt 5g, chicken essence 3g, and sugar10g.
working methods
1. Chop soft-shelled turtle, blanch, wash Cordyceps sinensis and red dates, and slice ginger for later use.
2. Wash the pot on the fire, add salad oil, fry the turtle thoroughly, and take out the oil control.
3. Put a clean pot on fire, add clear soup, ginger slices, red dates, Cordyceps sinensis and soft-shelled turtle, boil over high fire and stew for 45 minutes to taste.
Efficacy: Cordyceps sinensis, also known as Cordyceps sinensis, is sweet in taste, warm in nature, and belongs to kidney and lung meridians, benefiting kidney and lung, stopping bleeding and resolving phlegm. Stewing with soft-shelled turtle can benefit kidney and lung, and is suitable for impotence, nocturnal emission, chronic cough and asthma and expectoration.