Choosing vegetable soup with light taste in summer solar terms will not only refresh you, but also won't increase too many calories. Wax gourd, radish, towel gourd and tomato can all be used to make soup.
Many people will think of delicious old soup and stew it slowly for several hours or even most of the day, thinking that the nutrition of food can be fully dissolved in the soup. In fact, a moderate extension of the cooking time is indeed conducive to the release and absorption of nutrients, but it is not conducive to the retention of nutrients for a long time. Experts say that the broth can be stewed slowly, and the meat contains protein, and the main component of protein is amino acid. After heating for an hour or two, the nutrients are more easily absorbed and digested after the amino acid chain breaks. But vegetable soup is different. If cooked for too long, the nutrients will be destroyed and the taste will be affected.
Stewed lotus leaf with old wax gourd
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 eliminating summer heat and dampness, nourishing gastric juice, clearing filth, eliminating carbuncle, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling. People often use old wax gourd to relieve summer heat, because it is strong in relieving summer heat and its coldness is weakened. At the same time, the skin and seeds of wax gourd should also be used together, because the skin and seeds of wax gourd (called wax gourd kernel when entering Chinese medicine) are both Chinese medicines for clearing heat and benefiting water.
Lotus leaf can cool and relieve summer heat, quench thirst and produce fluid, and has always been regarded as a good summer heat product by Guangdong people.
Smilax glabra is a traditional Chinese medicine for eliminating dampness, which has the functions of clearing damp-heat, detoxicating and diuresis.
Adzuki bean is both food and medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is sweet and light, and can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, reduce swelling and detoxify. Both of them are effective in promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness, and also have the effect of strengthening the spleen. Duck meat is cool and nourishing poultry meat, which is suitable for summer heat.
There is a folk saying that "the tender duck is wet and poisonous, and the old duck nourishes yin", so the old duck soup is generally chosen. This soup has the effects of relieving summer heat, eliminating dampness, promoting diuresis, nourishing yin and strengthening the body, and is a family soup when summer heat, water and dampness alternate.