What soup to drink for health in summer? Summer solar terms are in the hot season, so drinking more soup can relieve summer heat and replenish water. Do you know what soup to drink in summer? Today, Bian Xiao introduces five kinds of health-preserving soups that are most suitable for drinking in summer. Let's take a look at the practice of these health soups.
What soup do you drink in summer?
1, mung bean soup
In hot summer, mung bean soup is very popular, but this soup should not be drunk much, let alone used as water. If you want to relieve summer heat, wash mung beans when cooking soup, boil them with strong fire, and add appropriate amount of rock sugar for about 10 minute. The soup is green and clear. According to personal preference, you can also add lily, lotus seeds, red dates and so on. Just to clear away heat and detoxify, you'd better boil the beans. This soup is turbid in color, which has a poor effect of relieving summer heat, but has a strong effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials.
However, it should be noted that people with weak spleen and stomach do not have to drink mung bean soup, but can eat mung bean porridge, and cook porridge with rice or millet and mung beans in the same pot to nourish the spleen and stomach.
Recommended practice of mint and mung bean soup: 5 grams of mint, 30 grams of coix seed, 60 grams of mung bean, and 0/~ 2 tablespoons of rock sugar/kloc. Wash Coicis Semen and mung bean, and soak in clear water for 3 hours. Pour 800 ml of water into the pot, add Coicis Semen and mung bean, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Turn to low heat and cook for half an hour. Add mint and sugar and continue to cook for 5 ~ 10 minutes. In a bowl. This soup can clear away heat and toxic materials and improve acne.
2. Chicken soup for boys
There is a traditional folk tonic method, which is to eat broilers in summer. Broiler refers to a cockerel that can't crow, but has just matured but hasn't been bred yet; Or a cockerel weighing 1 kg for three months to 1.5 kg, which has never been bred. Later, there was a special variety called broiler.
Broiler is chosen because it contains certain growth hormone, which has a good nourishing effect on children in growth and development period and middle-aged and elderly people with decreased hormone level. Even the young and the weak can have a try.
Choose a whole broiler weighing about 2-3 kg (preferably no more than 3 kg), chop it up, and then add black fungus, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, etc. In addition, it can also be cooked with Chinese herbal medicines such as yam, codonopsis pilosula and angelica sinensis, which can be eaten by people with weak qi and blood and has better dietotherapy effect.
3. Winter melon and lotus leaf soup
In Guangdong, people like to make soup with white gourd and lotus leaves every summer. Wax gourd is one of the most commonly used melons and vegetables in midsummer. It is sweet, thick and rich in water. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the functions of relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness, nourishing gastric juice, clearing filth, eliminating carbuncle, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling; Lotus leaf is a lotus root that grows on the water. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cool, sweet and light, and has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood and removing blood stasis. Dry lotus leaves are used as medicine, and fresh lotus leaves are mostly used for soup and delicacies. Because it is filled with a fresh lotus fragrance, it has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, eliminating stagnation and resolving stagnation.
It is recommended that old wax gourd be used with belt seeds. When you choose, the melon seeds with a particularly large cross section are "old". Wax gourd should be peeled, which can enhance the effect of diuresis. It is recommended to mix sweet soup with coix seed. In hot weather, light sweet soup can moisten heart and clear lung, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and clear away heat and summer heat.
Prepare old wax gourd 1000g, fresh lotus leaf 12g, coix seed 80g and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Wash everything separately. Wax gourd cut into pieces; Cut the lotus leaf into 2-3 pieces; Coix seed is slightly soaked. Put the clay pots together, add 2000 ml of water (about 8 bowls), bring them to a boil over high fire, then simmer for about 40 minutes, and then add sugar.
4. Mutton soup
In dog days, heat accumulates in the human body. At this time, drinking mutton soup and drinking Chili oil, vinegar and garlic will inevitably make you sweat all over. This kind of sweat can take away the heat accumulated in the five internal organs and expel toxins from the body, which is beneficial to health. In the mutton soup before midsummer, because the grass on the mountain is just green, sheep eat green grass, leaving a lot of toxins in their bodies.
Mutton is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins B 1 and B2, calcium, phosphorus and iron. Its nature warms the middle warmer, dispels cold, eliminates stagnation, strengthens glands and benefits qi, and warms and tonifies kidney-yang. Mutton soup is not as hot as chicken soup, and it is warm and nourishing, which is very good for people who are weak to drink mutton soup.
Putian people eat mutton in warm soup in summer, kill the sheep, remove the hair and dirt, and put the whole one in boiling soup for scalding. Then pick it up and put it in a big pottery pot, then pour the boiling soup into the pot, soak it for a certain time and take it out. When eating, cut the mutton into pieces, the meat is fat, crisp and tender, and the taste is delicious.
Step 5 be easy
On this day in summer, it is popular for old Nanjing people to cook old duck soup. Duck meat is sweet in taste and cold in nature. It enters the lung, stomach and kidney meridians, and has the functions of nourishing, nourishing stomach, tonifying kidney, removing tuberculosis, steaming bones, eliminating edema, stopping dysentery, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Duck meat is suitable for people with fever in the body, and it is more beneficial to people with weak constitution, loss of appetite, fever, dry stool and edema.
In the view of Chinese medicine, duck meat has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying deficiency, nourishing stomach and benefiting water. There are many ways to eat duck. It is best to cook duck soup in summer, which can not only supplement excessive consumption of nutrition, but also eliminate the discomfort caused by summer heat. Here are two kinds of duck soup for relieving summer heat and dampness, which can relieve summer heat and dampness.
Recommended practice of Jin Yinhua duck soup: 25g of honeysuckle, duck 1 duck, 2 figs, 4 pieces of dried tangerine peel 14, 2 pieces of fresh ginger, clear water 1000ml, and a little salt. Wash honeysuckle, wash duck, blanch in boiling water for 5 minutes, and take out; Wash tangerine peel, soak until soft, and scrape off the capsule; Boil water 1000ml, add honeysuckle, duck, fig, dried tangerine peel and ginger, simmer for two hours, and season with salt.
There are many eating customs in hot summer: many places in Guangdong have the custom of "eating fairy grass" in hot summer; There is a custom of eating pineapples in Taiwan Province Province of China, and people think that pineapples are the best in this season.