I often make soup from 1 for these three.
It's really good.
It is best to drink in summer ~ ~! !
Braised ribs with bitter gourd and soybean
Bitter gourd and soybean ribs soup smells bitter and moist, and has the effects of clearing away heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying. It is a soup for relieving summer heat in Chaoshan area, and is also commonly used by the people to treat symptoms such as summer heat, polydipsia, summer furuncle, excessive miliaria and conjunctivitis.
(Materials) 500 grams of fresh bitter gourd, 200 grams of soybeans, 250 grams of ribs and 3-4 slices of ginger.
Bitter gourd, also known as cold melon, is cold and bitter in nature, enters the heart, liver and stomach meridians, and has the functions of relieving summer heat, clearing away heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying. Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan says that it can purge the six meridians, clear away heat, relieve summer heat, replenish qi and quench thirst, and it also says that it can cure Dan fire gas and evil sores. Quanzhou Materia Medica holds that it is mainly used for treating vexation, clearing away heat and relieving hangover, wind-heat and red eyes, heatstroke and diarrhea. Soybean, also known as soybean, is called white bean in Guangzhou. It is flat and sweet, enters the spleen and intestines, and strengthens the spleen and broadens the middle. The theory of daily materia medica can relieve middle-aged qi and benefit the large intestine. Pork ribs are flat, sweet and salty, and enter the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians, which has the function of nourishing yin and moistening dryness; Ginger is warm and pungent, and enters the lung, stomach and spleen meridians, which has the function of dispelling cold and removing fishy smell. Combined into soup, it has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, benefiting qi and quenching thirst.
(Cooking) First, wash bitter gourd, soybeans, ribs and ginger with clear water, remove the core of bitter gourd and cut into pieces, and soak soybeans for a while; Chop the spareribs, then put them together in a clay pot, add 1200ml water (about 6 bowls of water), first boil them with strong fire, then simmer them with 1 hour to 600-800ml (about 3-4 bowls of water), add a little salt, and eat bitter gourd spareribs with soup. This amount can be used by 2 ~ 3 people, and should be drunk many times in summer when it is hot.