1, Danggui Sheng Di Mutton Soup
Ingredients: Angelica sinensis 15g, Radix Rehmanniae 10g (available in Chinese medicine shops), 500g mutton, and 6 slices of ginger.
Practice: Chinese medicine is slightly soaked; Wash the mutton, cut into pieces, put it in boiling water with ginger and Shaoxing wine, and then wash it (that is, "blanching"). Add ginger to the pot, add 2,500ml of water (about 10 bowl), cook over high fire for about 2 hours, and then add salt.
Efficacy: Mutton has the effects of invigorating qi and deficiency, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, promoting granulation and strengthening strength, and resisting cold. Danggui Dried Ginger Mutton Soup is a famous prescription created by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Han Dynasty, and it is effective for abdominal cold pain caused by blood deficiency and wind-cold. For the subtropical south, this recipe should be used to supplement the raw land of clearing away heat and cooling blood, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production. In winter, anyone who is physically weak can drink this soup. Eating angelica and mutton together can play a warming role, which is good for dispelling cold and enriching blood, strengthening body and clearing heat. This is a good healthy diet.
2. Shenmai turtle soup
Material: 1 turtle (1000g). 3 grams of ginseng and 6 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus. Onion, ginger, cooking wine, salt, pepper, chicken soup.
Practice: Slaughter the turtle, wash it, boil it in boiling water for 15 minutes, take it out, cut the cover along the skirt, tear off the rough skin of the turtle cover, remove the head and viscera, wash it and cut it into small pieces. Wash Ginseng Radix and Radix Ophiopogonis, and cut into thin slices. Put the soft-shelled turtle, ginseng slice and Ophiopogon japonicus slice into an enlarged bowl, add onion, ginger, pepper, cooking wine and chicken soup, cover the cut soft-shelled turtle shell, steam in a cage for 1 hour, and take out the onion and ginger.
Efficacy: Yiqi Runfei, Ziyin Shengjin.
These two health-preserving and tonic recipes are indispensable, which are suitable for beginning of winter to eat after the solar terms, can play the role of warming and nourishing yin, and are conducive to strengthening physical fitness. Such a health-preserving recipe, which may be eaten frequently, is a good type of recipe for strengthening physique and nourishing qi and blood.