Relieving Heat, Winter Melon and Barley Syrup

Name: Relieving Heat, Winter Melon and Barley Syrup
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 800g Winter melon; 100g Barley; Some crystal sugar

by Migu's health kitchen

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

1h

Serving

2

Entering the midsummer of August, the hotter and hotter weather makes people irritable. It is most necessary to pour a sweet drink that can clear the heat and cool off the heat. In Guangdong, people love to use winter melon soup during the summer heat, and the barley is recommended as a sweet soup. In the hot days, light sweet soup can moisturize the heart and clear the lungs, promote body fluids and quench thirst, and clear away heat and summer heat.
This refreshing folk drink clears away heat and relieves heat, strengthens the spleen and diuresis. It has certain effects on children with excessive heat rash, hot bladder, and less and yellow urine. "

Ingredients

Relieving Heat, Winter Melon and Barley Syrup

1. Barley is not easy to ripen and become soft. After the barley is washed, it needs to be soaked for 1 hour in advance.

Relieving Heat, Winter Melon and Barley Syrup recipe

2. Wash the wax gourd, remove the seeds, leave the skin, and cut into small pieces. You can also remove the skin for taste.

3. Put the winter melon and barley together in the soup pot and bring to a boil and simmer for one hour, or one and a half hours.

4. Open the lid, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, boil for another 10 minutes until the rock sugar is completely melted, and stir well.

5. A refreshing summer sweet water is ready

Tips:
The soup can be salty or sweet, if it is salty, add pork bones.
East melon is diuretic, but remember that East melon is cold, especially sweet, and it is easy to cough when you eat it. Remember to drink hot while drinking, and don't drink too much.