What soup to cook in August?
August, just before and after the summer heat, is about to turn into autumn, but the summer heat has not disappeared, people often lose appetite, consume a lot of body fluids, and all kinds of nutrients, especially inorganic salts, are easy to lose. So in summer, besides eating more vegetables, you should also drink more soup! Cooking soup in August can not only relieve summer heat, but also supplement more nutrients lost by people in summer and prevent autumn dryness.
Recommended 1: Prunella vulgaris black bean soup
Prunella vulgaris is a commonly used Chinese medicine in summer in Guangdong, which 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 it is hot and dry. In fact, Chinese medicine believes that they are flat and sweet, have the effects of strengthening the spleen, diuresis and detoxification, 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 hot summer and autumn, which is beneficial to the level of liver fire.
Ingredients: Prunella vulgaris 30g, black beans 50g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: Wash the spica prunellae in soaking hair, wrap it in gauze or soup, wash the black beans in soaking hair, put them together in a clay pot, add water 1250 ml (about 5 bowls), simmer for about 30-40 minutes with strong fire, and add a proper amount of crystal sugar.
Recommendation 2: lotus pond green pot 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 stimulate appetite. Old people often eat lotus root, which can also benefit blood, soothe the nerves and prolong life. In addition, the ingredients of this sweet soup are cool, 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 knock 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 rock sugar, and simmer 15 minutes.
Recommendation 3: Apple tremella soup
Apples are 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. Apples also contain a lot of magnesium, sulfur, iron, copper, iodine, manganese and zinc. , can make the skin delicate, smooth, ruddy and shiny. Tremella is rich in natural plant gum and can nourish yin. Long-term use can moisturize the skin and remove chloasma and freckles on the face. Apple tremella soup, cold annealing, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production.
Raw materials: apples, tremella, lilies and lotus seeds.
Practice: soak tremella for more than 4 hours, cut into small flowers, and soak lotus seeds and lilies in warm water for 2 hours. Then, wash the apples and cut them into pieces. Put the tremella, lily and lotus seeds into the pot and cook for half an hour on low heat. Finally, add jujube, apple and rock sugar, and simmer slowly.
Recommended recipe 4: Old duck lotus leaf and winter melon 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 to reduce swelling without damaging healthy qi. Propanolic diacid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. In addition, wax gourd itself does not contain fat and has low calories, which is of great significance to prevent people from getting fat and can also help keep fit. Fresh lotus leaf soup can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, diuretic, and wax gourd can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Husband duck can nourish yin and blood, benefit stomach and produce fluid. The combination of the three can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, dispel dampness, but also benefit the stomach and produce fluid.
Ingredients: a piece of fresh lotus leaf, fresh old wax gourd 1 kg to 1.5 kg, old duck male meat 1.5 kg.
Practice: Wash the above three kinds of food, put them in a clay pot, add appropriate amount of water to make soup, add salt to taste, and drink soup to eat melon 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 and diuresis, benefiting qi and nourishing yin, moistening lung and clearing heat. Bamboo sun with duck soup is an excellent classic match. Because Dictyophora dictyophora and old duck are both slightly cold foods, it is not easy to get angry in summer.
Ingredients: half a duck, Dendrobium 10g, Dictyophora dictyophora 1, ginger 1, onion 1, 20 ml of cooking wine, 2 liters of water, 2 teaspoons of salt1/and a little monosodium glutamate.
Practice: Wash the duck, cut it into pieces, soak it in Dendrobium, put it in a soup bag, pat the old ginger flat, cut the onion into small pieces, put the duck pieces, ginger and onion in a pot, pour clear water into the duck, boil it with high fire, remove the duck and ginger onion, rinse the blood foam with water, and then put it in a soup pot. Pour 2 liters of clear water into the soup pot, add Dendrobium and cooking wine, cover the pot and bring to a boil, then turn to low heat for 1 hour. Dictyophora indusiata is decapitated 20 minutes in advance, soaked for 4 or 5 times repeatedly, and the precipitate is cleaned. 1 hour later, open the lid, add salt and monosodium glutamate, then pour in dictyophora indusiata, 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 and lilies. Lily and lotus seeds have the effects of nourishing the heart, calming the nerves, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. They are famous food, and they are also food. 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 term.
Raw materials: dried lily 100g, dried lotus seeds 75g, crystal sugar 75g.
Practice: After soaking the lily in water for one night, rinse it off. Soak the lotus seeds for 4 hours and rinse. Put lily and lotus seeds into a clear water pot, bring to a boil with high fire, add rock sugar, and simmer for 40 minutes.
Recommended recipe 7: fig, sweet potato and bitter melon soup
Fig has 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, nourish the skin, clear away heat and detoxify, and the soup is sweet and delicious. 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 when entering the soup. Combined with vegetarian soup, it has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, relaxing bowels, benefiting spleen and moistening lung, and has a clear and delicious smell, which is suitable for both men and women.
Ingredients: sweet potato 200g, fig120g, bitter gourd 200g, ginger 2 slices.
Practice: Wash, peel and cut sweet potatoes; Soak figs; Wash wax gourd, remove seeds and cut into pieces. Put 1750 ml water (about 7 bowls) into a wok or pot, bring everything to a boil with strong fire, then simmer for about 45 minutes, and 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. Tremella aurantialba can treat hematemesis, erythema, painful urination, turbid urine, leucorrhea, dysentery, snake bite, burning pain, toothache, constipation and lower blood pressure. Tremella 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 fuciformis 10g, lean meat 50g, eggs 1 piece.
Practice: Wash tremella in advance. Break the eggs and fry them into egg skins. Then cut into diamond-shaped pieces for later use. Mix the lean slices with cooking wine, salt and starch for later use. Blanch the tremella with boiling water. Pour olive oil into a wok and add chopped green onion. Stir-fry the sliced meat until it changes color. Pour in the right amount of boiling water. Add tremella. Add the egg skin. Add salt after boiling. Season with pepper. Add a little chicken essence. Pour in sesame oil. Boil, turn on the fire.
Recommended recipe 9: Radix Pseudostellariae and Lily Clear Soup
Pseudostellaria heterophylla is flat, sweet and slightly bitter, and has the functions of tonifying 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 away 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 suffering from cough, asthma, shortness of breath, dry mouth and throat.
Raw materials: Pseudostellaria heterophylla 100g, lily 50g, Siraitia grosvenorii half, and lean meat 750g.
Practice: Wash lean meat and cut into thick slices; Cleaning Radix Pseudostellariae, Bulbus Lilii and Fructus Siraitiae Grosvenorii. Put the ingredients into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil with high fire, and simmer for about 2 hours.
One last reminder, but you can't use "ice" to reduce the fever. Although it relieves summer heat after ice cooling, it is easy to make the stomach chill and cause diarrhea, dizziness and other diseases. The hotter the weather, the more obvious this situation is. You can't use ice soup in summer instead of drinking water. Pay attention to soup, especially the main ingredients. Drinking soup with ingredients before meals can supplement the necessary nutrition of the human body and is extremely beneficial to the "bitter summer" people.