Spring heat-clearing, dampness-removing and health-preserving soup

　　Spring is a fickle season. It is often sunny and warm during the day, but chilly in the morning and evening. This is what is commonly called "late spring cold". The time when late spring cold occurs is also the most humid time in spring, so how should we clear away heat and remove dampness? The editor teaches you seven spring heat-clearing and damp-removing soups to make you bloom like a flower this spring.

　　Bawang flower braised pig soup

　　Ingredients: 2 taels of Bawang flowers, 12 taels of pork belly, 4 candied dates, a little salt, and 10 bowls of water.

　　Method: 1. Wash the whole piece of pork belly, soak and wash the Bawang flowers, and remove the core of candied dates.

　　2. Put candied dates and Bawang flowers together in a clay pot, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, add pork belly and simmer for about 20 minutes, switch to medium heat and simmer for about half an hour, simmer until about 4 to 5 bowls of soup remain, season with salt.

　　Efficacy: clearing away heat, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough.

　　Watercress, monk fruit and pig's trotter soup

　　Ingredients: 500 grams of pork trotters, half of Luo Han Guo, 700 grams of watercress, and 60 grams of southern almonds.

　　Method: 1. Wash the pig's trotters, dry them, wash the mangosteen, wash the watercress, cut into short lengths, boil the almonds in boiling water and remove the clothes.

　　2. Put the mangosteen and southern almonds into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, add the pork trotters and watercress, boil again, simmer for 2 to 3 hours, season and serve.

　　Efficacy: Clear away heat and moisturize the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Dry cough due to lung heat, dry throat and mouth, or dry and painful throat, hoarseness, or dry heat constipate wait. It can also be used for those with bronchitis due to dryness of the lungs and heat.

　　Radish, Lotus Seed and Pork Tongue Soup

　　Ingredients: 750 grams of radish, 50 grams of lotus seeds, 25 grams of gorgon seeds, 3 candied dates, 500 grams of pork tongue, and 750 grams of pork bones.

　　Method: 1. Wash the radish with its skin and cut it diagonally into medium pieces.； Peel and wash the lotus seeds, gorgon seeds, and candied dates, and soak them briefly in water. ；

　　2. Scrape and wash the pork tongue repeatedly, cut it into large pieces, and boil the pork bones together with boiling water for a while to remove the blood. After the pork bones are drained, crack them with the back of a knife.；

　　3. Put all the ingredients into the pot and simmer for 2 and a half hours. Season with appropriate amount of salt and a small amount of oil. This amount can be used by 3~4 people.

　　Efficacy: Radish is cool in nature, pungent and sweet, can eliminate stagnation, resolve phlegm and heat, lower qi, and relax the middle.； Lotus seeds are mild in nature and astringent in taste, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach and nourish the mind. ； Gorgon fruit is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and can nourish the spleen and relieve diarrhea; candied dates are flat in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effect of replenishing qi, promoting body fluids, and nourishing the lungs and stomach. ； Pig tongue can replenish qi and blood, nourish and strengthen ； Bones nourish blood and produce marrow, strengthen muscles and bones. When combined into a soup, it can be moisturizing and nourishing, widening the middle and lowering Qi, and can relieve spring cold and relieve dampness.

　　Peanut Chicken Feet Soup

　　Ingredients: 10 chicken feet (about 200g), 50g peanuts, 5g rice wine, 3g each ginger slices and refined salt, 1g MSG, 10g chicken fat.

　　Method: 1. Cut off the tips of chicken feet and wash them； Soak the peanuts in warm water for half an hour, then rinse with fresh water.

　　2. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot and bring to a boil. Add chicken feet, peanuts, rice wine, and ginger slices. Cover the pot and cook for 2 hours. Add refined salt and MSG to adjust the taste, simmer for a while, and drizzle with chicken oil.

　　Efficacy: This soup contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, vitamin C, etc.

　　Raw fish soup with winter melon and adzuki beans

　　Ingredients: 60 grams of adzuki beans, 750 grams of winter melon, 2 raw fish, 150 grams of lean pork, and 3 slices of ginger.

　　Method: 1. Wash adzuki beans, wash winter melon, cut into pieces with skin, wash raw fish, kill and remove scales and internal organs, fry over slow fire until slightly yellow.；

　　2. Wash the lean pork and cut it into whole pieces without using a knife. Put it into a clay pot with ginger and add 2500 ml of water (about 10 bowls of water) ；

　　3. After boiling over high heat, simmer over low heat for 2 and a half hours. Add appropriate amount of salt and oil. Serve 3-4 people.

　　Efficacy: Red bean, winter melon and raw fish soup is light, non-greasy and rich in nutrients. It also has the effect of removing dampness and strengthening the spleen. Adzuki bean is one of the commonly used soup ingredients in Guangdong. It has the functions of strengthening the spleen, removing dampness, reducing swelling and detoxifying. Winter melon can relieve summer heat, while raw fish can replenish the spleen and promote diuresis.

　　Eight Treasures Winter Melon Soup

　　Ingredients: 1 catty of winter melon, 1 tael each of yam and gorgon seeds, half a tael each of lotus seeds, lilies, lentils, and barley, and half a catty of lean meat.

　　Method: 1. Wash all materials； Blanch the lean meat in boiling water (drain the water), cut the winter melon into pieces with the skin on, put all the ingredients in a soup pot and simmer over low heat for 2 hours, then add an appropriate amount of salt.

　　Efficacy: Winter melon has the effect of promoting water and clearing away heat. This soup is suitable for clearing away heat and removing dampness.

　　Excessive humidity in spring causes body aches and drowsiness in limbs. So what home-cooked dishes can clear away heat, remove dampness and strengthen the spleen and stomach?

　　Shouwu Gan Tablets

　　Ingredients: 20 ml of Shouwu liquid, 250 grams of fresh pork liver, 25 grams of water-cured fungus, a little green cabbage leaves, Shaoxing wine, vinegar, salt, starch, fresh soup, soy sauce, onions, ginger, garlic and appropriate amount of oil.

　　Method: Concentrate the Shouwu decoction, take 20 ml of the liquid for later use, remove the tendons of the pork liver, wash and slice it, wash the onion, ginger and garlic, shred the onion and ginger, slice the garlic, wash and dry the green vegetables.

　　Dip the pork liver slices into the Shouwu juice (take half of the Shouwu juice), add a little salt, add an appropriate amount of starch and mix well. In addition, mix the remaining Shouwu juice, soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, vinegar, wet starch and fresh soup into a sauce.

　　Heat the oil in a wok over high heat. When the oil is hot, add the mixed pork liver slices and slide them in. Use a slotted spoon to drain out the remaining oil. There is a small amount of oil left in the pan. Add the garlic slices and minced ginger to stir-fry until fragrant. Add the pork liver and water-cooked fungus. Stir-fry for a few minutes. Add the green cabbage leaves to the pan and stir-fry several times. When cooked, pour in the juice and stir-fry evenly. Add the shredded green onion to the pan before taking it out of the pan. Stir-fry until it is done. Remove from the pan and serve.

　　Efficacy: nourishing liver and kidney, replenishing essence and blood, making black hair and eyesight. (Shouwu can not only protect the liver, but also lower lipids and blood pressure; fungus has the effect of promoting blood vessels, and eating it regularly can keep fit and prolong life if you are not sick. )

　　Pearl three delicacies soup

　　Ingredients: 50 grams of chicken breast, 50 grams of peas, 1 tomato, egg Take 1 piece of clear water, 25 grams of milk, 25 grams of starch, appropriate amounts of cooking wine, salt, MSG, stock, and sesame oil.

　　Method: Remove tendons from chicken, wash and chop into fine paste； 5 grams of starch mixed with milk ； Open the eggs, remove the yellow and leave the white; put these three items in a bowl, stir into chicken puree and set aside.

　　Wash the tomatoes, blanch them in boiling water, peel them and cut them into small cubes； Wash the peas and set aside.

　　Put the wok on high heat and pour in the broth. Add salt and cooking wine and bring to a boil. Add peas and diced tomatoes. After it boils again, reduce the heat to low. Use chopsticks or a small spoon to shape the chicken puree into large round pearl balls. Add them to the pot. Turn the heat up again and wait until the soup boils. Add water starch. After boiling, add MSG and sesame oil to the pot. Serve.

　　Efficacy: Warming and replenishing qi, replenishing essence and marrow, clearing away heat and relieving troubles.

　　Papaya, corn, peanut and raw fish soup

　　Raw materials: about 500 grams of papaya (Xuan papaya), 1 corn (coat, beard), 50 grams of peanut kernels, 1 raw fish, 100 grams of lean pork, 3 red dates, and 3 slices of ginger. (Serves about 3 people)

　　Cooking method: Peel and remove the pulp from the papaya, wash and cut into cubes.； Wash the corn and cut into short sections ； Wash the peanuts and soak them briefly ； Wash and remove the intestines from the raw fish, fry in oil over low heat until both sides are slightly brown. Wash the lean pork and cut into large pieces. Put all the ingredients into the clay pot together, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about 1 to 1.5 hours, add an appropriate amount of salt and oil, and serve.

　　Efficacy: Papaya has the effects of removing dampness and harmonizing the stomach, nourishing the spleen and lungs, digesting food and relieving vomiting. It is suitable for rheumatic arthralgia, soreness of limbs, spasm of muscles and veins, and vomiting. diarrhea、beriberi Symptoms such as edema； Eating corn in moderation at the beginning of spring also has the effects on the human body of regulating appetite, diuresis and dampness, lowering cholesterol, preventing arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease and anti-cancer effects, suitable for elderly edible.

　　Beef stew with carrots

　　Ingredients: 250 grams of beef, 120 grams of carrots, appropriate amounts of salt, pepper, chicken essence, and soy sauce.

　　Preparation: Blanch the beef and skim off the floating residue.； Add onions, ginger, garlic, pepper, and soy sauce to cold water. After boiling, add beef. After 1 hour, add carrots and simmer for about half an hour. Add appropriate amount of salt and MSG before serving.

　　Efficacy: Eliminate fatigue and enhance physical fitness.