Sweet Corn Ginkgo Pork Ribs Soup
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After the pork ribs are cleaned, blanch them to remove blood and impurities for later use
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Prepare the ingredients, clean the candied dates, barley, and red lotus seeds for later use
3.
Choose sweet corn, which tastes better, clean it and cut into sections, peel the carrots and cut into sections, clean the fresh ginkgo and set aside
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Pour all the ingredients into a stew pot, add water, add rice wine, boil on low heat for about 2 hours, until the ingredients are soft and rotten, add salt to taste
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Bright color, rich nutrition, sweet and delicious taste, especially the sweetness of sweet corn, is the highlight of this soup. The ingredients are rich and varied. You can add and subtract according to your physique or living environment. For example, barley can be added or subtracted according to your physique or living environment. No need to add it.
Tips:
1. [Corn]: "Sweet, flat; into the spleen and stomach meridian." The main functions are to regulate the appetite, lower blood lipids, and promote choleretics. It has a certain therapeutic and preventive effect on spleen and stomach weakness, gastritis, constipation, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, cholecystitis and colorectal cancer;
2. [Ginkgo]: sweet, bitter, astringent, flat, and slightly poisonous. Ginkgo can restrain lung qi, relieve asthma and cough, stop turbidity, reduce stool, cure asthma, phlegm cough, leucorrhea, turbidity, spermatorrhea, gonorrhea, frequent urination;
3. [Caution]: Remember that ginkgo must not be eaten raw. Ginkgo is three-point poison. Ginkgo is no exception. Raw ginkgo has certain toxins, and eating too much can lead to life-threatening, so children and pregnant women are best not to eat it, for safety reasons , Can not eat more ripe ginkgo at one time, 8-10 for adults, halved for children;
4. [Red lotus seeds]: The lotus seeds are taken out of the lotus seedlings after they mature, and the peel is removed and dried, and the red lotus seeds are processed and peeled to become white lotus seeds. From a medicinal point of view, lotus seeds have the effects of nourishing the qi, nourishing the heart and kidney, calming the nerves, strengthening the spleen and stomach, etc. It can be used for physical weakness or postpartum spleen and stomach weakness, upset and irritability, insomnia, dreams, and loss of appetite. As well as women with blood deficiency and backache, increased leucorrhea, and men’s kidney qi deficiency, nocturnal emission, red lotus seeds are more used to nourish blood and nourish the skin, while white lotus seeds are slightly better in replenishing qi; the white lotus seeds are soft and waxy after being boiled, and have a delicious fragrance. , Red lotus seeds are not easy to boil, the flesh is harder and slightly astringent;
5. [Note]: Many people like to peel the lotus seeds directly from the lotus and eat them raw, which is interesting and fun, and the taste is fragrant and delicious, but do not eat too much, so as not to affect the spleen and stomach and cause diarrhea;
The lotus seeds also astringent the intestines to relieve diarrhea, and should not be used for those with dry stools, especially the elderly and infirm.
