Cishijiegua Soup for Relieving Heat

Name: Cishijiegua Soup for Relieving Heat
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 piece Zucchini; 30g Gorgon; 400g Pork tendon; 30g Barley; 10g lily; 2 pcs Candied dates; 2 tablets ginger; Some salt

by Migu's Kitchen

5.0 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

1h 30m

Serving

5

As soon as the mango seeds arrive, various places have entered the rainy season. In such hot and humid weather, it is recommended to eat more "melon family" foods, such as bitter gourd, Chinese zucchini, and winter melon. Many people don’t know what zucchini is. In fact, it is a plant in the Cucurbitaceae family and a mutated vegetable of winter melon. It is also called northern melon and hairy melon. But there are many. Cantonese people eat it in summer.

Ingredients

1 piece Zucchini
30g Gorgon
400g Pork Tendon
30g Barley
10g Lily
2 pcs Candied Dates
2 tablets Ginger
Some Salt

Cishijiegua Soup for Relieving Heat

1. Prepare the materials and clean them briefly.

Cishijiegua Soup for Relieving Heat recipe

2. Soak barley and ginseng in water for 30 minutes in advance;

3. Peel the zucchini and cut into large pieces;

4. After washing the pork tendon, cut into large pieces, or use pork bones instead;

5. Put it in a pot, add water and boil it over high heat for 1 minute, the blood of the pork tendon comes out. Then remove the meat, rinse, remove the foam and set aside.

6. Add zucchini, pork tendon, soaked ginseng, barley, lily, two slices of ginger and candied dates into the soup pot;

7. Put in an appropriate amount of water. (Water volume: about 2L) Cover the pot, and after boiling on high heat, turn to low heat and continue to boil for 1.5 hours;

8. Just add some salt to taste before turning off the heat.

Tips:
Melon has a lot of water, is easy to digest and absorb, has high nutritional value, and has the effect of relieving heat and clearing away heat. Drink more melon soup in the hot summer, hurry up!