What soup to drink in April?
April is the turn of spring and summer, and the climate is unstable, resulting in heavy body moisture. Experts suggest that the diet is light and rich, and you can make soup with wet ingredients to eliminate moisture. Foods that warm and tonify the spleen and stomach include crucian carp, yam, lotus seeds, gorgon euryales, pork belly, duck meat and so on. Damp-removing foods include adzuki beans, coix seed, lettuce, lentils and wax gourd.
What soup to drink in April? Here are ten ways to make soup.
1, black-bone chicken soup
Ingredients: one black-bone chicken, 100g, pig spine 200g, Euryale ferox 25g, three slices of ginger, three candied dates and a proper amount of salt.
Practice: Wash black-bone chicken, five-finger peach, gordon euryales, etc. And put them into a soup pot; Blanch the pork spine with boiling water and put it in a soup pot; Cut three slices of ginger into pieces, put them into a soup pot, pour 10 bowl of clear water, boil the water with strong fire, and then simmer for two hours; Season the soup with salt before serving it.
Efficacy: Euryale ferox has the effect of invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness. Black-bone chicken contains melanin, B vitamins, 18 amino acids and 18 kinds, and its fat content is very low. This soup can reduce swelling and invigorate qi, which is good for health.
2, lotus leaf glutinous rice soup lean broth
Ingredients: lotus leaf, coix seed, lean meat, lotus seeds, lentils, dried yam, etc.
Practice: wash lotus seeds, barley, lentils and dried yam, and soak barley, lentils and yam for one hour; Clean lean meat, cut into pieces, and soak in water; Boil the water in the casserole, add all the ingredients, boil over high heat, turn to low heat for one hour, and season with salt.
Efficacy: it can strengthen yang, strengthen spleen and eliminate dampness, and eliminate fatigue.
3. Hu Aishan Carrot Crucian Carp Soup
Ingredients: yam, carrot 200g, crucian carp 1~2 strips, 2 candied dates, 50g lean meat and 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: Peel the yam and carrot and cut them into thick slices. Wash the candied dates, ginger slices and lean meat, put them in a soup pot, add 2000 ml of water and boil over high fire. Come on after the hot pot. Put the cleaned and scaled crucian carp into a hot pot and fry until both sides are slightly burnt, and then put it into a cooked soup pot. Boil for 3~5 minutes with high fire, then reduce the heat, turn off the heat and season with salt.
Efficacy: Carassius auratus is helpful for strengthening spleen and promoting diuresis, harmonizing middle energizer and appetizing, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, warming middle energizer and lowering qi; Zhunshan has the functions of strengthening spleen, consolidating kidney and benefiting qi; Carrots have the effects of invigorating middle energizer, promoting qi circulation, invigorating stomach and spleen, promoting digestion and removing stagnation. This soup is warm and delicious, and has the functions of invigorating spleen and qi, resolving food stagnation, stimulating appetite and eliminating dampness, which is very suitable for eating in spring, summer and wet seasons.
4, lentil lean broth
Ingredients: lentil 100g, dried tangerine peel 14g, lean pork 400g, salt and ginger.
Practice: Wash and cut the pork into pieces, remove the gourd skin and slice the ginger; Put the ingredients together in a pot, add water, first boil with high fire, then change to a small fire pot 1~ 1.5 hours, and add a proper amount of salt.
Efficacy: clearing heat and eliminating dampness.
5, kelp barley winter melon soup
Ingredients: 50 grams of kelp, 25 grams of coix seed and 500 grams of wax gourd.
Practice: kelp is rinsed and brushed, and coix seed is soaked in water 1 hour for standby; Peel the wax gourd and cut into pieces. Put the three together in a clay pot, add a proper amount of water, boil with strong fire, then simmer for about 1 hour, and add a proper amount of salt to serve.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, clearing away heat and removing acne.
What soup to drink in April? Next, I will continue to introduce you to five ways to make healthy soup.
6. Burdock and radish soup
Ingredients: burdock 200g, carrot150g, white radish150g, edamame 50g, 6 bowls of water.
Practice: wash the burdock, gently scrape off a layer of skin with a knife, and cut it into pieces of half a centimeter obliquely; Wash white radish and carrot, peel and cut into pieces; Wash and soak edamame for later use; Put all the ingredients in the pot, add 6 bowls of water to boil, turn to medium-low heat, add a little salt to taste, and even eat the soup residue.
Efficacy: clearing heat and promoting diuresis, strengthening spleen and stomach, clearing intestine and beautifying muscles.
7. Three-bean loach fish soup
Ingredients: loach gram, red bean 30g, black bean 30g, red bean 15g, Shaoxing wine 10g, and 5 slices of ginger.
Practice: Put the loach in clear water, spit out the soil, then slaughter, gut and wash; Wash red beans, black beans and red beans for later use. Heat a wok with high fire, add vegetable oil and loach, and fry until 7 minutes cooked. Put the fried loach, washed red beans, black beans, red beans and ginger into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high fire, cook for 2 hours, add Shao wine and add appropriate amount of refined salt.
Efficacy: Misgurnus anguillicaudatus has the effects of warming the middle warmer, benefiting qi, expelling wind and promoting diuresis. Red beans enrich blood, promote diuresis and reduce swelling, and red beans clear away heat, detoxify and promote diuresis. This soup has the effects of clearing heat, eliminating dampness, invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney.
8. Chenpi Baizhu Wuhua Decoction
Ingredients: 6 grams of dried tangerine peel, 30 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, half of fresh pork belly or 1, 6 grams of Amomum villosum and 5 slices of ginger.
Practice: first remove the fat from the pork belly, put it in boiling water to remove the fishy smell, and scrape off the white film. Wash Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Fructus Amomi and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens with clear water. Then put all the ingredients into the soup pot, boil and simmer for 2 hours.
Efficacy: this soup has that effect of invigorating spleen and stimulate appetite. Especially suitable for people with bad smell and indigestion.
9. barley, winter melon and pork soup
Ingredients: coix seed10g, lentil10g, 5g of dried tangerine peel, 50g of wax gourd (with skin), 400g of pork and ginger.
Practice: Wash and cut the pork into pieces, and blanch it in blood for later use. Wash Coicis Semen, Lentils and Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, wash wax gourd (with skin) and cut into pieces, and slice ginger. Put the above materials together in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, then cook with low fire for 1.5 hours, and add refined salt.
Efficacy: It has the efficacy of invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, and is suitable for summer and summer heat and dampness.
10, Hu Aishan cishi lentil ribs soup.
Ingredients: yam 15g, solid fruit 15g, fried coix seed 15g, fried lentils 15g, radix astragali 12g, atractylodes macrocephala 10g, and ribs 200g.
Practice: Soak yam with water first. Stir-fry lentils and Coix lachryma-jobi seeds in a pot until they are slightly yellow, wash the ribs with blood, chop them, wash the spiny stone, Radix Astragali and Atractylodis Macrocephalae with clear water, then put all the ingredients in a soup pot and cook for one and a half hours with medium fire to taste.
Efficacy: This soup has the effects of invigorating the spleen, waking the stomach, eliminating dampness and resisting fatigue, and is especially suitable for people with spleen deficiency and heavy dampness and listlessness.