Ingredients of pumpkin lily soup
200 grams of pumpkin, 3 fresh lilies, 6 red dates, 5 grams of medlar, and a proper amount of rock sugar.
Practice of pumpkin lily soup
Prepare ingredients, peel pumpkin, cut into pieces, remove pedicels from lily, break and wash for later use, cut red dates in half, and wash medlar for later use.
Add about 2000 ml of pure water to the pot, boil the pumpkin over high heat and cook until the pumpkin is cooked.
Add lily, red dates and medlar and cook for about 5 minutes.
Add appropriate amount of rock sugar to taste and serve.
Cooking skills of pumpkin lily soup
Besides fresh lilies, dried lilies are also acceptable, but they should be soaked in advance to shorten the cooking time. Pumpkin itself has seasoning, you don't need to add too much rock sugar, you can taste it with a little bit.
Pumpkin is rich in nutritional value, which can tonify the middle energizer, invigorate qi, lower blood fat and blood sugar, clear away heat and toxic materials, protect gastric mucosa and help digestion. Suitable for spleen deficiency, malnutrition, lung abscess, fire and water scald. According to the notes in Compendium of Materia Medica, pumpkin has the functions of stomach, liver and spleen and stomach meridians. It has the functions of invigorating middle warmer, invigorating qi, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, resolving phlegm and expelling pus, detoxifying and killing insects, soothing the liver and regulating qi, and benefiting liver blood.
Besides directly steaming the pumpkin, steaming the dough into steamed bread, or making pumpkin pie with glutinous rice flour, it is also very good to make pumpkin soup directly. Today, I cooked pumpkin and lily syrup to drink. Autumn and winter are the time to nourish it.
Lily not only contains protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B, vitamin C and other nutrients, but also contains some special nutrients, such as alkaloids such as colchicine. These ingredients act on the human body comprehensively, which not only has good nutritional and nourishing effects, but also has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on various seasonal diseases caused by dry climate in autumn and winter.
So pumpkin and lily complement each other! Having said that, pumpkin lily syrup is actually very simple to make, especially with the help of a health pot. Just put the pumpkin and lily in the health pot and wait to drink!