Pueraria lobata is very common in the south and is generally used to make soup. It is delicious and sweet with crucian carp, ribs or old hen.
Materials?
Half an old hen
Pueraria lobata 1 kg
Ginger amount
8 red dates
Proper amount of salt
2 tablespoons cooking wine
How to cook pueraria chicken soup?
The shape of the strip looks a bit like yam, and some short and fat ones look like Smilax glabra. Pueraria lobata powder is made from pueraria lobata.
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Pueraria lobata is simply cleaned, peeled and cut into hob blocks or 1cm circular slices.
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Chop the old hen into small pieces of 2-3 cm, and remove the fat from the chicken. It is best to use old hen or native chicken instead of tender chicken to make soup.
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Put the chicken in cold water, add 2 tablespoons cooking wine, cook over high fire until it changes color, take it out, rinse and drain.
Put the blanched chicken, kudzuvine root and red dates into a casserole, and add enough water to boil. If you use an electric pressure cooker to cook soup, you can put less water.
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After the fire boils, turn to low heat for 40 minutes, and use a colander to remove the floating foam in the soup. I like to use casserole to make soup, and stew it slowly. The soup tastes better.
Turn off the fire after the pueraria pot is cooked thoroughly, add appropriate amount of salt to taste according to the taste of family members, and stir until it melts.
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The whole family said that pueraria root chicken soup was fresh but not greasy and delicious.
Pueraria lobata is rich in starch, dietary fiber, flavonoids, amino acids, trace elements and other important nutrients beneficial to human body. Modern medicine shows that Pueraria lobata has many health care functions such as delaying aging, enhancing immunity, improving blood circulation, regulating endocrine, clearing dysentery and relieving fever. , which is embodied in the following aspects:
1, regulating endocrine, Pueraria lobata is rich in isoflavones with high activity, which helps to regulate endocrine, make skin smoother and more elastic at the same time, and acne will gradually disappear, which is helpful for skin repair;
2. It has anticancer effect. Pueraria lobata contains many kinds of amino acids and trace elements necessary for human body. Wild pueraria lobata contains a lot of dietary fiber, which is helpful to improve constipation and eliminate toxins in the body. Selenium enrichment also helps to fight cancer.
3. Pueraria lobata can clear dysentery, relieve fever, eliminate phlegm and quench thirst. Pueraria lobata powder also has the functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, resisting bacteria and detoxifying, and has a good therapeutic effect on sore throat, tongue pain and diarrhea caused by cold. Sticking to eating pueraria powder can regulate human function, enhance physical fitness and improve the body's disease resistance;
4. Pueraria lobata powder contributes to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, and can reduce heart rate, blood pressure and myocardial oxygen consumption. This is because puerarin and isoflavones contained in Pueraria lobata can reduce heart rate and blood pressure and block peripheral resistance. When the pressure of the left and right ventricles rises to the maximum rate, it will begin to decrease, thus reducing the demand for oxygen consumption of myocardium, and at the same time, it can dilate coronary blood vessels and increase coronary blood flow, thus reducing resistance and increasing oxygen supply. When the supply and demand of oxygen reach a general balance, angina pectoris can be improved to some extent in medicine.
5. It can lower blood pressure. Puerarin extracted from Pueraria lobata has the function of dilating coronary artery and cerebral artery, and can be used for lowering blood pressure, increasing blood supply to ischemic tissues, obviously reducing cardiac oxygen consumption, relieving myocardial ischemia, helping to limit and narrow the range of myocardial infarction, resisting tachyarrhythmia and improving blood circulation.