Cantonese people can't eat without soup, and banquets can't do without soup. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, it is inseparable from soups with various functions. Health care at four o'clock, Chinese medicine believes that "nourishing the liver in spring, eliminating dampness and solving difficulties; Nourish the heart in summer, clear away heat and relieve summer heat; Nourish lungs, nourish yin and moisten dryness in autumn; Tonifying the kidney in winter, consolidating the foundation and cultivating the yuan. "

Braised chicken soup with longan, litchi and ginger.

Longan: sweet in taste and warm in nature. The medical book "South Yunnan Materia Medica" calls it: nourishing blood and calming the nerves, increasing wisdom and sweating, appetizing and benefiting the spleen. Its dried meat is longan meat, a commonly used nourishing material with the same origin of medicine and food.

Litchi: Litchi is also used as medicine and food. Li Shizhen once praised it as "the pure yang of smell". It has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and blood, and is a good tonic for patients with physical weakness, old age, anemia and insomnia after illness.

Dried litchi enhances the functions of appetizing, invigorating spleen, nourishing blood and invigorating qi. There is also a folk saying in Guangdong that "blood cold supplements litchi and blood heat supplements longan".

Ingredients: fresh longan 10, 5 dried lychees, 30g ginger, and about 600g old hen.

Cook longan and peel off fresh meat; Dried litchi is pitted; Wash ginger and mash it; The old hen chopped up chunks of water for later use. Put all the ingredients together in a saucepan, add about 1250 ml of water, cover and stew for 3 hours, and then add salt to drink soup.