Summer baby's secret recipe for relieving summer heat

1, stewed duck soup with American ginseng

Ingredients: 20 grams of American ginseng, 250 grams of duck meat, longan meat 12 grams each time.

Practice: when making, first clean the American ginseng and cut it into thin slices (or break it into small grains) with a knife for later use. Slaughter the duck, remove the hair and viscera, head, neck and feet, wash the blood with clear water, and then cut it into thick pieces with a knife for later use. Remove impurities from longan meat and wash it with clear water. After the above soup materials are prepared, put them into a soup pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook the soup from medium heat to slow heat for about 1 hour for 30 minutes, add salt to taste, and eat duck meat and longan meat when the soup is warm.

Efficacy: The American ginseng in this soup is a good tonic for summer heat injury, benefiting qi and nourishing yin, clearing fire and promoting fluid production; Duck is a kind of flesh and blood thing, which grows on the water all the year round. It can nourish yin and blood, benefit the stomach and produce fluid, and tonify it without dryness. It is especially suitable for people with damp heat and excessive deficiency fire, and is known as "the holy medicine for nourishing fatigue". Longan meat is a good product for nourishing qi and beauty. Good at nourishing blood, calming the heart and improving intelligence. The combination of three kinds of food, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, calming the heart and nourishing blood and removing annoyance. This soup is very suitable for hot weather, feeling tired and weak, sweating too much, thirsty and listless.

2. Wax gourd and mung bean sauce

Ingredients: 250 grams of fresh wax gourd meat, 75 grams of mung bean and appropriate amount of brown sugar can be used each time.

Practice: when making, wash the melon first, peel the melon seeds, cut the melon meat into small strips, wash the dried mung beans, and remove the mung bean skin if possible. Then put the prepared mung beans into a casserole and add water to decoct. When the beans will be cooked into bean paste, add the chopped wax gourd, continue to cook for 20 minutes, and then add appropriate amount of brown sugar to taste.

Efficacy: Drink mung bean soup in summer and cook tremella soup in winter. Mung bean syrup is the most classic summer drink. Mung beans have high medicinal value, and the content of protein is almost three times that of japonica rice. Li Shizhen called it "the food valley that helps the world, the best food". Drinking mung bean soup in summer can prevent and treat heatstroke, red eyes, sore throat, miliaria, constipation, red urine, polydipsia and other symptoms, and it is not advisable to drink it often in dry season. Fresh wax gourd is sweet and light, which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat; Mung beans are dry and sweet, which can cool and detoxify, relieve summer heat and benefit water; Sweet brown sugar can detoxify and moisten the bath. The combination of three kinds of food can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also quench thirst, which is sweet and delicious.

3, cloth kelp pig spine soup

Ingredients: 30g kelp, 30g kelp, 30g soybean, 750g pig spine, 2-3 slices ginger.

Practice: wash kelp, kelp and soybeans and soak them slightly; Wash the pig's spine, break it with the back of a knife, then put it in an earthenware pot filled with ginger, add 2500ml of clear water (about 10 bowl of water), boil it with strong fire, then simmer it with slow fire for about two hours, and add appropriate amount of salt. This amount can be used by 2-3 people.

Efficacy: Braised pork spine with kelp is light and moist, and has the effects of clearing away heat, removing stagnation, promoting diuresis and removing annoyance. It is a laxative and nutritious drink in summer and wet period, and can also be used for the adjuvant treatment of hypertension, simple goiter and chronic cervical lymphadenitis.