Healthy Pumpkin Cup

Name: Healthy Pumpkin Cup
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 piece small pumpkin; 1 Tremella; 5-6 pcs Red dates; More than 10grains Wolfberry; More than 10 pieces lily; Some crystal sugar

by Cat's Private Kitchen

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

2h

Serving

2

Pumpkin: sweet and warm in nature, it has the effects of nourishing the qi, moisturizing the lungs and resolving phlegm, reducing inflammation and relieving pain, detoxification and killing insects.

Tremella: sweet in taste, calm in nature, belonging to the lung, stomach, and kidney meridians. It is a traditional high-grade tonic and precious medicinal bacteria. It has the functions of nourishing the lungs and kidneys, relieving cough and promoting fluid, refreshing and replenishing qi, strengthening the brain and rejuvenating the skin, and restoring muscle fatigue. The effect is particularly significant for the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled, especially the patients and the parturient after surgery. It does have a whitening effect!

Jujube: sweet, astringent, flat in nature. Return to the spleen, kidney, heart meridian. It has the functions of invigorating the kidney and strengthening the essence, replenishing the spleen and stopping diarrhea, nourishing the heart and calming the mind, and nourishing vitality.

Lycium barbarum: It is a commonly used nourishing medicine in traditional Chinese medicine. It is mild in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the two meridians of the liver and kidneys.

Lily: sweet and slightly bitter, flat in nature, enters the heart and lung meridian, it has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, nourishing yin and eliminating fever, and clearing the heart and soothing the nerves. Single-flavor lily decoction or mixed with other foods and medicines can play a role. "

Ingredients

1 piece Small Pumpkin
1 Tremella
5-6 pcs Red Dates
More than 10grains Wolfberry
More than 10 pieces Lily
Some Crystal Sugar

Healthy Pumpkin Cup

1. Add appropriate amount of water to the white fungus, red dates, lily, and rock sugar to boil over high heat and turn to low heat for 1 hour. The wolfberry is added after about 40 minutes of cooking.

2. When cooking the white fungus soup, let's dispose of the pumpkin. Use this tool.

3. Choose the right height of the pumpkin, pierce the pointed beak completely, and then the next knife must be connected to the end of the previous knife, so pierce it in a circle.

4. After stabbing the whole circle, use the tip of the knife to slightly tilt the gap of the pumpkin, the lid will be easily opened, and the pumpkin cup has a beautiful pattern.

5. A grand introduction to this magical cup opening device, it looks like this, with a round back end, which can be used to dig fruit and various melon balls. You can buy it for more than a dozen yuan on Taobao, isn't it very practical?

6. Digression: The fruit ball dug out by the leader of the gadget looks like this, isn't it beautiful?

7. Closer to home, use a spoon to empty out the pumpkin flesh and wash it clean.

8. Put the cooked white fungus soup into the pumpkin cup.

9. Cover the lid (it is best to insert two toothpicks horizontally on the lid for easy opening in the future), put it in a steamer and bring to a boil on high heat. Turn to low heat and steam for 40 minutes.

10. After 40 minutes, this beautiful and healthy pumpkin cup is ready.

11. When you open the lid, don't count on the power of the toothpick, because the pumpkin is very soft after being steamed. It is easy to pick up the toothpick directly and violently.

12. The correct method is to use the tip of a knife to gently lift the pumpkin lid along the crease opening gap, and then slowly lift the lid with the help of a toothpick. During the lid lifting process, the knife below should not leave. You need to support the weight of the pumpkin lid. You can open the lid completely.