1, ginger. Adding ginger can nourish essence, relieve colds and improve human immunity. Paired with chicken soup, it is more helpful for colds and colds. Eating a bowl of ginger chicken soup can dispel the cold in the body and play a role in cold preservation.
2. hey. Adding Lycium barbarum can supplement yang, help the growth of yang and resist the cold. You can also add some oil-absorbing foods such as wax gourd and mushrooms, which can lower cholesterol.
3. ginseng. Drinking ginseng chicken soup in winter is a popular nourishing method in China. Ginseng can enhance human immunity and reduce the chance of catching a cold in winter.
4. chestnuts. Chestnut can be found everywhere in northern China. It contains a lot of starch, rich protein, fat, vitamins and sweetness. It can thicken stomach and tonify kidney, and has the effects of nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling.
5. Lemon. Lemon juice can make the flavor of classic chicken soup more unique, and at the same time increase the intake of extra vitamin C.
6. Mushrooms. Lentinus edodes contains an ingredient called lentinan, which can improve immunity.
7. Radix Astragali and Radix Codonopsis. Astragalus membranaceus and Codonopsis pilosula, two well-known nourishing traditional Chinese medicines, are also polysaccharides, which are called Astragalus membranaceus polysaccharide and Codonopsis pilosula polysaccharide respectively, and can promote human immune function.
8. Coix seed. Coix seed is slightly cold and not suitable for porridge or eating alone, but it is a good choice to cook soup with chicken, which has the effect of warming and nourishing, and can also play the role of invigorating spleen and tonifying deficiency. Put a few red dates into it before stewing, and then stew it with codonopsis pilosula, the taste will be softer.