Wax gourd and mung bean sauce
Folk proverb: drink mung bean soup in summer and cook tremella soup in winter. Mung bean syrup is the most classic summer drink. Mung beans have high medicinal value, and the content of protein is almost three times that of japonica rice. Li Shizhen called it "the best food in the world". Drinking mung bean soup in summer can prevent and treat heatstroke, red eyes, sore throat, miliaria, constipation, red urine, polydipsia and other symptoms, and it is not advisable to drink it often in dry season. Fresh wax gourd is sweet and light, which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat; Mung beans are dry and sweet, which can cool and detoxify, relieve summer heat and benefit water; Sweet brown sugar can detoxify and moisturize the bath. The combination of three kinds of food can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also quench thirst, which is sweet and delicious.
Practice: 250 grams of fresh melon meat, 75 grams of mung beans and appropriate amount of brown sugar can be used each time. When making, wash the melon, peel the melon seeds, cut the melon meat into small strips, wash the dried mung beans, and remove the mung bean skin if possible. Then put the prepared mung beans into a casserole and add water to decoct. When the beans will be cooked into bean paste, add the chopped wax gourd, continue to cook for 20 minutes, and then add appropriate amount of brown sugar to taste.
Kun bu hai ban Zhu spine soup
The spine of braised kelp is light and moist, and it has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving depression, promoting diuresis and removing annoyance. It is a laxative and nutritious drink in summer and wet period, and can also be used for the adjuvant treatment of hypertension, simple goiter and chronic cervical lymphadenitis.
Thallus laminariae is cold and salty, enters the lung and stomach meridians, and has the functions of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, softening hardness and lowering blood pressure. According to the theory of medicinal properties, it can "benefit water channels and eliminate facial swelling", and the book "Yu Li Yao Jie" says that it can "benefit water and remove dampness, break accumulation and soften hardness" and treat "swelling and pain of scrofula". Kelp is also cold and salty, and enters the liver and stomach. It has the effects of clearing away heat, softening hard mass, clearing blood, promoting diuresis, dispersing gallbladder, stagnation of qi, and induration under the neck. Herbal Meng Jian also said that it can: "remove fullness and reduce swelling"; The spine of soybean pig is not only a drug introduction, but also can remove the coldness of kelp. Soybean is flat and sweet, which is not only beneficial, but also has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and relieving summer heat. Pig spine is flat and sweet, which has the function of nourishing yin and benefiting marrow. Combined into soup, it not only clears away heat and annoys, eliminates dampness and diuresis, but also nourishes.
Practice: wash kelp, kelp and soybeans and soak them slightly; Wash the pig's spine, break it with the back of a knife, then put it in an earthenware pot filled with ginger, add 2500ml of clear water (about 10 bowl of water), boil it with strong fire, then simmer it with slow fire for about two hours, and add appropriate amount of salt. This amount can be used by 2-3 people.
Stewed duck soup with American ginseng
The American ginseng in this soup is a tonic for summer heat injury, benefiting qi and nourishing yin, clearing fire and promoting fluid production; Duck is a kind of flesh and blood thing, which grows on the water all the year round. It can nourish yin and blood, benefit the stomach and produce fluid, and tonify it without dryness. It is especially suitable for people with damp heat and excessive deficiency fire, and is known as "the holy medicine for nourishing fatigue". Longan meat is a good product for nourishing qi and beauty. Good at nourishing blood, calming the heart and improving intelligence. The combination of three kinds of food, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, calming the heart and nourishing blood and removing annoyance. This soup is very suitable for hot weather, feeling tired and weak, sweating too much, thirsty and listless.
Practice: 20 grams of American ginseng, 250 grams of duck meat and 0/2 grams of longan meat are used each time. When making, the American ginseng is washed first and cut into thin slices (or broken into small grains) with a knife for later use. Slaughter the duck, remove the hair and viscera, head, neck and feet, wash the blood with clear water, and then cut it into thick pieces with a knife for later use. Remove impurities from longan meat and wash it with clear water. After the above soup materials are prepared, put them into a soup pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook the soup from medium heat to slow heat for about 1 hour for 30 minutes, add salt to taste, and eat duck meat and longan meat when the soup is warm.