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What kind of soup is suitable for drinking in summer?

1. The soup should be light in summer

If the heat hurts the body and makes you thirsty, you can choose:

1. Winter melon and ciren syrup

Use one pound of fresh old winter melon (with skin), three ounces of raw cilantro, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar. First wash the old winter melon and cut it into large pieces, add the washed raw cilantro and put it into a clay pot and simmer for an hour, then add brown sugar and wait for drinking. The old winter melon in the soup is sweet, clear and slightly cold, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving heat, producing body fluids and quenching thirst. Ciren is raw, but it is weak and diuretic, while brown sugar clears away heat and promotes fluid production. When used together, it can relieve summer heat, clear away heat, and remove summer heat dampness.

3. Gypsum tofu and vegetable soup

Two pieces of gypsum, half a catty of fresh tofu, and three liang of dried cabbage. First break the gypsum slightly, then wash the dried cabbage with water and soak it for a short time. Put the three kinds of food into a clay pot and add an appropriate amount of water to make soup. Simmer until the tofu cubes have small holes like peaks and nests. Add a little salt to taste and drink the soup.

2. If there are too many prickly heat or a small amount of heat boils, you can choose:

Bamboo shoots and mushroom soup

Ingredients:

25 mushrooms grams, 15 grams of bamboo shoots, 110 grams of golden needles, and 300 grams of clear soup.

Method:

Cut the mushrooms into shreds, shred the ginger, tie the golden needles into knots, and shred the bamboo shoots. Put bamboo shoots and shredded ginger in a soup pot, add appropriate amount of water and cook for 15 minutes, then add mushrooms and lily needles and cook for 5 minutes, add refined salt and MSG.

Daylily, seaweed and loofah soup

25g daylily, 15g seaweed, 100g loofah.

Put the above 3 flavors into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, cook until it becomes a soup, add peanut oil and a little cod liver oil and cook until it is ready to eat (lighter is better). Once a day.

Lotus seeds and longan soup

30 grams of lotus seeds (heart removed), 30 grams of gorgon seeds, 35 grams of coix seed, 12 grams of longan meat, and 30 grams of honey.

Put the first 4 flavors together in a casserole, add 500 ml of water, cook over low heat for 1 hour, then add honey and serve.

Bitter melon and lentil soup

500g bitter melon, 100g lentils, 500g lean meat, 5 candied dates

Boil 12 bowls of water for 2 hours

Single-flowered and purple-flowered ground bark soup

Ingredients: 15 grams each of honeysuckle and purple-flowered ground bark, appropriate amount of sugar (rectangular, brown sugar).

Method: Wash and put in a clay pot, add four bowls of water, put in the medicinal materials and simmer for about an hour, filter out the medicinal residue, then add sugar tablets and simmer for a while.

Tips for making soup

Excessive sebum secretion may lead to acne, acne, or even redness and swelling. It is advisable to detoxify the body first and then adjust the endocrine system. The function of this soup is to remove heat and detoxify. Honeysuckle, known as the "antibiotic" in traditional Chinese medicine, has antibacterial and detoxifying properties. Purpurea is an important medicine for removing heat and detoxifying. It is specially used to treat unknown swelling and poisoning. It can be taken internally and externally without any contraindications. Drink this soup often in hot summer, which is good for dissipating heat and detoxifying.

Tremella and red dates soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of white fungus and 20 red dates. Round meat is 5 cents. Appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Method: Soak white fungus, wash it, cut off the stems, and tear it into pieces of appropriate size; remove the core and wash the red dates; wash the round meat with water. Add an appropriate amount of water and simmer with the above ingredients until the white fungus is soft and smooth. Both hot and cold drinks are available.

Soup making tips

The hot weather in summer affects the spleen and stomach, reduces gastric juice secretion, and reduces digestion capacity. In addition, poor sleep in hot weather depletes body fluids, thereby greatly weakening appetite and causing health problems. Energy intake is low and expenditure is high. In summer, many people lose weight, look haggard, and develop pigmentation on the face, producing chloasma, dark spots, etc. In this soup, white fungus has the functions of moistening the lungs, promoting body fluid and relieving cough, nourishing yin and nourishing the lungs, replenishing qi and blood, etc. It is a good tonic; red dates contain a variety of vitamins, which can replenish qi and blood. There is a folk saying that "eat red dates every day and you will never grow old in your life." The round meat is sweet in taste, fragrant and mild in nature. It can nourish the blood, calm the nerves, and benefit the brain. It is a good nourishing medicine. The above ingredients, when combined, have the effects of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and making the complexion smooth. Taking these materials for a long time will not harm your health, and drinking them in other seasons is also beneficial to your health.

Mung Bean, Poria, and Red Peony Soup

Ingredients: 100 grams of mung beans, 40 grams of Poria, 15 grams of Viola, 20 grams of Red Peony, 150 grams of lean meat, appropriate amount of salt.

Method: Wash all ingredients. Put the clay pot on the fire, add eight bowls of water, and add the ingredients. Turn on the fire and turn to low heat. Simmer for 2 hours to release the flavor, add salt to taste, drink the soup and eat the meat.

Tips for making soup

This soup is particularly effective in removing acne on the face. If there are subcutaneous hard lumps on the face, which are the accumulation of connective tissue, it means that acne is about to appear in a day or two. Once discovered, taking this soup immediately will have a particularly significant effect. The mung bean in this soup cools the blood and relieves heat. Poria cocos detoxifies and removes dampness. It is also combined with red peony root and purpurea root to help relieve coolness and detoxification. For those who often suffer from acne during the spring and summer rainy seasons, drinking this soup is more effective than applying facial compresses. The poria cocos, purpurea peony root and red peony root used in this soup are all common traditional Chinese medicines, which are cheap and effective. It can be kept at home.

Coconut round meat soup

Ingredients: One coconut, round meat (25g).

Method: After the coconut is opened, pour out the juice and set aside. Remove the coconut meat from the coconut shell with a knife, cut into thin strips, and rinse lightly with water. Wash the longan meat and set aside.

Pour an appropriate amount of water into the pot, add coconut and round meat, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 2 hours, add coconut water and simmer for another 30 minutes. Season to taste and drink.

Soup making tips

Use old coconut when making this soup. The older the coconut, the more fragrant the coconut meat will be. When opening a coconut, be careful not to splash coconut water on your clothes. Although coconut water is transparent, it turns into red juice stains that are difficult to wash off when exposed to water. This soup is rich in protein, minerals and vitamins. It has the effects of replenishing qi, promoting body fluids, nourishing the skin and rejuvenating the skin. It can also diuretic and reduce swelling. Regular drinking can make people have a rosy complexion and smooth skin. You can also add more water when making the soup. After the water boils, in addition to the above ingredients, add a washed black-bone chicken. After simmering for enough time, it will be a nourishing and nourishing coconut black-bone chicken soup, which not only replenishes vitality but also moisturizes. It is a delicious soup that is often consumed in summer to nourish the skin.

Mao Gen Sugar Cane Soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of Ma Gen, 250 grams of bamboo cane (green sugar cane), 1 carrot, 50 grams of southern almonds, 25 grams of northern almonds, 1 small piece of tangerine peel .

Method: Soak grass roots and dried tangerine peel with water (available in traditional Chinese medicine stores and cheap, you can also check whether there are fresh ones in the vegetable market), wash and set aside. For sugar cane, it is best to buy green sugar cane, cut it into sections about ten centimeters long, and then split it lengthwise into four to six strips. Cut carrots into thick pieces. Wash the almonds from the south to the north.

Put all the ingredients into the pot, then add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then change to medium to low heat and simmer for 3 hours.

Tips for making soup

This soup has the effects of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and diuresis, moistening dryness and relieving cough, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. All the ingredients in the soup itself have a sweet taste, so it is best to cook it. The soup that comes out is very soothing and refreshing. Those who like sweetness can also put about 200 grams of rock sugar in the pot.

Apple yogurt soup

Ingredients: 1 cup of yogurt or cheese, 1 fresh apple.

Method: Wash the apples, peel off the skin, heart and stems, cut them into small pieces, put them into a blender with cheese (yoghurt) and stir them. After the apples become pureed, pour them out and drink. You can also first put the apple chunks and a little water into a blender to make apple juice, then mix it with yogurt, mix thoroughly and drink it, the effect will be the same.

In summer, allergic skin or excessively dry skin will cause rough skin, allergies, rapid aging, eczema, etc. due to endocrine imbalance and insufficient nutrition. disease. In this soup, apple has the function of softening blood vessels, treating rheumatism, and preventing premature hardening of blood vessels. It is supplemented by cheese to promote the body's absorption of fruit acids. Regular drinking can make people's skin shiny and rosy. In the hot summer, don’t forget to eat an apple a day, add yogurt, and treat yourself to an apple yogurt drink.

3. White water clear vegetable soup:

Method: A lot of things need to be prepared. Excellent spareribs, Jinhua ham, Northern Jiangsu grass chicken, live shrimps from Taihu Lake, bamboo shoots from Moganshan, clams, mushrooms, and if there are crabs, add a crab from Yangcheng Lake, all in two.

Put all these things into the earthen pot and simmer over slow fire for three or four hours. Add enough water at a time without adding salt or any seasoning. ...After it's done, fish out all those things without leaving any scraps. When it's time to eat, put down the tofu and vegetables. These things can absorb oil by the way.

4. The soups suitable for each season are different. It needs to be warm and nourishing in winter and heat-clearing in summer.

Who would drink hot, greasy soup when it’s so hot in summer? What I want to drink most is a bowl of iced mung bean soup

If the original poster is MM.

Just drink more pig trotter soup, which is good for the skin and rich in collagen. If you think it's too greasy, you can also stew chicken feet soup, which will have the same effect.

How to make pig's trotter soup: it can be mixed with many things, such as soybeans, kelp, peanuts, etc., use your imagination.

Generally, if you buy it in the supermarket first, he will help you Clean and cut into small pieces.

After taking it home.

1. First clean it repeatedly. (It is food after all) and put it in a bowl.

2. Heat oil in a wok, just a small spoonful is enough. Add some ginger slices and Sichuan peppercorns (this is to remove the fishy smell). Then pour the pig's feet down and stir-fry. 11. After 2 minutes, add appropriate amount of water. Turn on high heat and cook. After it boils, there will be a lot of black foam. These are dirty things. Use a spoon to scoop them out and throw them away.

3. Pour it all into a casserole and stew over low heat. (If it is an iron pot, if it is cooked for a long time, it will produce substances that are bad for the body. I don’t understand what they are. Anyway, it is better to stew this way. A stainless steel stew pot can also be used)

4. You can choose the ingredients, soybeans should be soaked in water first, and kelp should be washed. At this time, add the ingredients you selected.

You can go and take a rest. Basically, you will be fine in 2 hours.

Add salt when you are ready to eat it. It is best not to use MSG and chicken essence. This soup is inherently salty and delicious.