Sour Plum Soup

Name: Sour Plum Soup
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 30g Ume; 30g Hawthorn tablets; 15g Tangerine peel; 2g Licorice Chips; 6g Roselle; 120g crystal sugar; 3g Osmanthus; 2 liters pure water

by Food world

4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

1h

Serving

2

Sour plum soup is a traditional refreshing beverage in old Beijing. It is refreshing and delicious. It is one of the drinks that everyone loves very much. Drinking a cup of sour plum soup from time to time can not only relieve greasiness, but also appetite, invigorate the spleen, and refresh the brain. It is a rare health drink in the hot summer.
The main raw materials are ebony, hawthorn, osmanthus, licorice, rock sugar and other materials. What needs special mention is that the authentic sour plum soup must be boiled with rock sugar. "

Ingredients

Sour Plum Soup

1. Ingredients: ebony, hawthorn, osmanthus, licorice, rock sugar, etc.

2. Wash the ebony plum, dried hawthorn slices, tangerine peel, licorice slices, and Roselle with clean water to remove the floating dust.

3. Put it in a soup pot, add purified water, bring to a boil on high heat, turn to low heat and cook for 30 minutes.

4. Put the rock sugar, stir until it melts, turn off the heat. Add osmanthus, stir well, and simmer for 10 minutes.

5. After cooling, filter the sour plum soup, put it in a bottle and refrigerate it, ready to drink.

Tips:
1. In daily life, you can make different flavors of sour plum soup at home according to different tastes. For example, red dates, wolfberry, mung beans, etc. can be added.
2. From the nutrient content of sour plum soup, sour plum is very rich in organic acids, such as citric acid and malic acid. Among them, there is a special kind of citric acid, which can effectively inhibit lactic acid and drive out harmful substances that make blood vessels aging. Excessive lactic acid content in the body is an important cause of fatigue. Therefore, when you are tired in the summer, drinking a cup of sour plum soup can play a good refreshing effect and restore vitality to muscles and blood vessels. In addition, so many acidic substances can also promote the secretion of salivary glands and gastric glands, not only to produce fluids and quench thirst, but also to avoid motion sickness when going out to play, or to sober up after drinking too much.

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