Adzuki bean, also known as adzuki bean and adzuki bean, is a common minor cereal that matures in autumn. "When those red berries come in spring, they flush on your southern branches. I advise you to collect more as a symbol of our love. " Red bean is not only a kind of acacia, but also a tonic that people often eat.

Red beans contain more nutrients than many foods such as wheat, millet and corn. According to the analysis of food experts, the protein content of red beans is 17.5%-23.3%, starch is 48.2%-60. 1%, and dietary fiber is 5.6%- 18.6%. In addition, red beans also contain a variety of inorganic salts and trace elements, such as potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese and zinc. The nutritional components of red beans are similar to those of familiar mung beans, and some even exceed mung beans.

Red beans have high medicinal and health functions. Red beans can clear away heat and toxic materials, strengthen spleen and stomach, induce diuresis and reduce swelling, and can be used to treat dysuria, spleen edema and beriberi. It has attracted people's attention since ancient times. Li Shizhen called red beans "the valley of the heart"; Shennong Materia Medica believes that red beans are edible medicines and belong to domestic products. According to medical theory, red beans can "promote qi and disperse knots, make people open-minded and have poor urination"; In the new edition of Compendium of Materia Medica, it is even more incisive that red beans "patent the water in the lower body, which can't be beneficial to the wetness of the upper body." If red beans and carp are eaten in soup, they can play a dietetic role in edema, beriberi and dysuria. It can also treat liver cirrhosis, liver ascites and complement deficiency; The soup made of red beans and winter melon is a good diet for edema all over the body; Red beans cooked with lentils and coix seed can treat diarrhea. In addition, adzuki bean can also be used with traditional Chinese medicine, such as adzuki bean with forsythia and angelica soup, which can treat liver abscess; Red beans combined with dandelion and licorice soup can treat intestinal carbuncle.

It can be seen that eating more red beans is good for health. In addition to the common porridge, there is also a food combination called "red bean milk paste", which is mixed with coconut milk aroma, which is not only nutritious, but also suitable for people's taste. Wash 3 spoonfuls of red beans, soak them in water for about 20 minutes, cook them in boiling water for about 5 minutes, and then stew them in a saucepan for about 1 hour until the red beans are cooked and rotten; Stir-fry 2 spoonfuls of coconut powder in a dry pan until slightly yellow, then add coconut powder and rock sugar into braised red beans and stir with warm milk to serve.

According to the lunar calendar, it is autumn now, although the heat has not disappeared. Traditionally, when autumn phenology is dry, the human body needs to be moistened. Therefore, at present, it is advisable to drink more heart-nourishing soup, especially for women, and often drink adaptive soup, which can not only preserve health but also beautify.

Cantonese people are the most particular about drinking soup. Li Jianchang, the chef of Shanghai's famous restaurant Zhizhen Restaurant, is a chef from Hong Kong. He is a white-collar worker, especially a white-collar woman. I recommend several drinks suitable for this season, which have the effects of beautifying, slimming and dispelling summer heat.

It is convenient to make special soup at home. These soups are neutral, and there is nothing intense in them, so old people and children can drink them.

Braised chicken soup with honey sauce

Function: Also called Jazz Soup in Hong Kong, it is said to be Shao Yifu's favorite health soup. The true color of the soup is milky white, very thick and white. It is most suitable for women to drink and has the effect of beautifying and moistening.

Ingredients: half a catty of honeydew melon (note that the honeydew melon with white skin and green meat should be tender and not overcooked), half a catty of fresh conch meat (if there is no fresh one, two or two pieces of dried meat are enough), and one catty of old hen.

Accessories: a small piece of ginger.

Practice: It's best to use the traditional profound crock, if not, the profound stainless steel pot will do. First, boil the water (twice as much as the material), add ginger slices, snail meat and chicken pieces, and simmer for half an hour, then simmer for two hours, then cut the honeydew melon into small pieces and simmer for half an hour. At this time, the soup is about half to two-fifths of the original. Finally, add salt according to taste.

Tip: Fresh conch is not easy to clean, and there is a greasy liquid outside. Mix the dried raw powder with the snail meat and wash it with water, so it is easy to clean.

Soak the dried snail meat in warm water for 1 hour, and then wash it for later use; Cut the hen quickly, 6 yuan. If it is too fat, you can remove the chicken skin; But it's best not to peel it. It smells like chicken skin and soup.

Tea tree mushroom sparerib soup

Function: Reduce fat, clear the stomach, and have slimming effect.

Ingredients: 50 grams of Agrocybe aegerita (dried Agrocybe aegerita, available in southern stores and large supermarkets), cut into small pieces and slightly rinsed (not soaked). 200 grams of small ribs, cut into small pieces, red dates 10, candied dates 1 piece, ginger 1 piece.

Practice: Same as above. After the water in the pot is boiled, put all the materials into boiling water, fire for 15 minutes, and then medium fire for 30 minutes.

Tip: If you don't eat meat, don't put ribs, because there are mushrooms, so the soup is quite delicious.

Winter melon and dried tangerine peel old duck soup

Function: dispel summer heat and strengthen spleen.

Ingredients: an old duck, 2 Jin of wax gourd, 20 g of coix seed, one piece of dried tangerine peel, one piece of ginger and one piece of candied dates.

Practice: As above, boil the water, put all the materials in, fire for half an hour, then medium fire for 3 hours, and finally put salt according to taste.

Watermelon black chicken soup

Function: It is dry in autumn, and the human body needs to be moistened. This soup is also moist. Especially for women, the skin will be lubricated until winter. Besides, this soup is delicious, a little red, green and black.

Ingredients: fresh watermelon (take the whole watermelon, dig out the pulp, leave a little red, cut the skin into small pieces), a black-bone chicken, cut into pieces; One candied date and 200 grams of lean meat.

Accessories: a small piece of ginger.

Practice: the pot and water quantity are the same as above. Also, boil the water first and put the chicken pieces, ginger slices, lean meat and candied dates in. The fire lasted for half an hour and the fire lasted for one and a half hours. At this time, put the cut watermelon in and bake it in the fire for half an hour. Finally, add salt according to taste.

Shashen Yuzhu fish tail soup

Function: Radix Adenophorae and Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati are both lung-moistening. This soup is especially helpful for people who have too much alcohol and tobacco and lack of sleep.

Materials: Salvia miltiorrhiza and Polygonatum odoratum are both traditional Chinese medicines, which are available in Chinese medicine shops. Adenophora adenophora, Polygonatum odoratum 3-4g each, apricot 5g (also a traditional Chinese medicine, available in Chinese medicine shops), candied dates 1 piece, silver carp 1 tail (about 750g), lean meat 200g, ginger 1 piece.

Practice: The basic practice is the same as above. Is to wash the fish tail first, put it in an oil pan (a little oil) and fry it on both sides until golden brown. Boil the water, put everything in boiling water, boil for half an hour, then put it on medium fire for one and a half hours, and finally add salt according to taste.

Tip: Adenophora adenophora, Polygonatum odoratum and apricot are all traditional Chinese medicines, but they have no medicinal taste, so this soup is very fresh.