Ten stew recipes to nourish yin and kidney

Stewed soup plays an important role in Chinese food culture. People have this awareness: soup is a good tonic food. Whether it is recovering from a serious illness or recuperating, people will choose to drink soup for nourishment. In fact, many soups can nourish yin and kidney in addition to their daily tonic effects. So how should these soups be made?

1: Ingredients: 1 turtle (over 300g), 10g wolfberry, 15g Rehmannia root. Method: Kill the turtle, remove the head, claws, viscera, and shell, clean it, cut it into small cubes, and put it into an aluminum pot; then put in the cleaned wolfberry and Rehmannia root, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the cod is cooked. It can be eaten frequently. Efficacy: nourishes yin and tonifies the kidney. The cod in the recipe can nourish yin and cool blood; wolfberry protects the liver and tonifies the kidney, improves sperm quality and improves eyesight; Rehmannia root nourishes yin and tonifies blood. This recipe is suitable for people with headaches due to kidney yin deficiency.

1: Ingredients: Chinese yam, wolfberry, dendrobium, fig, dried conch, ginger, pork. Preparation: Wash Chinese yam, wolfberry, dendrobium and fig and set aside; soak dried conch in hot water until soft, heat half a pot of water, add a small piece of ginger, put in the conch and blanch for 3-5 minutes and pick up; wash pork and cut into pieces, blanch and pick up; pour 8 bowls of water into a clay pot and boil, add all the ingredients and boil over high heat, then simmer for two hours, add salt and season to drink. Efficacy: nourishes yin and kidney, dispels wind and improves eyesight, strengthens spleen and appetite, nourishes kidney and improves essence. Snail head has the effect of nourishing liver yin and improving eyesight. When cooked with wolfberry and dendrobium, which can nourish yin and benefit the liver, it tastes delicious and nourishing without being dry. It is especially helpful for people who work too hard or overexert themselves.

1: Ingredients: 100g chicken, 5g ginger, 10g wolfberry, 15-20 chestnuts. Method: Chop the whole chicken into pieces, select 100g of boned meat, blanch it in boiling water, and put it into the soup pot. Then put wolfberry, chestnut, and ginger into the pot in turn, and pour in an appropriate amount of soup. After boiling over high heat, simmer for another hour. When it is out of the pot, add refined salt and it is ready to eat. Efficacy: Chicken can replenish qi and blood, treat spleen and stomach weakness; ginger can sweat and dispel cold, stop vomiting and detoxify; wolfberry can replenish kidney and essence, nourish liver and improve eyesight; chestnut can replenish qi, nourish stomach and kidney, and has a therapeutic effect on loose stools. This chestnut and chicken soup has a good tonic effect on fatigue, shortness of breath, kidney deficiency and low back pain.

1: Ingredients: 800g black-bone chicken, 10g salvia miltiorrhiza, 6g safflower, 15g Fritillaria cirrhosa, 3g MSG, 5g ginger, 6g scallion, 5g salt, 2g pepper, 10g cooking wine. Method: Kill the black-bone chicken, remove the hair, internal organs and claws; soak the salvia miltiorrhiza and cut into thin slices; remove impurities from Fritillaria cirrhosa and cut into large grains; remove impurities from safflower and wash; pound the ginger and cut the scallion into sections; put the black-bone chicken, Fritillaria cirrhosa, safflower, salvia miltiorrhiza, ginger, scallion and Shaoxing wine in a stew pot and add 2800ml water; put the stew pot on high heat to boil, then simmer for 35 minutes on low heat; add salt, MSG and pepper and stir well. Effect: Black-bone chicken is the first choice of delicious food for women to nourish Yin and kidney. Cooking with black-bone chicken or making soup is very beneficial to women's health. It can not only nourish Yin and beauty, but also replenish Qi and blood.

1: Ingredients: 250g lean pork, 250g soaked sea cucumber, 5 dates, seasonings. Method: Wash the sea cucumber and cut into strips. Wash the lean pork and cut into strips. Remove the core of the dates and wash. Put all the ingredients into a stew pot, add an appropriate amount of boiling water, cover it, and stew it over low heat for 2-3 hours. Season it. Efficacy: nourishes the kidney and replenishes essence, moisturizes the intestines. Sea cucumber can nourish both kidney yang and kidney yin, and has the effect of nourishing both yin and yang and greatly replenishing vitality. Lean pork has the characteristics of sweetness, flatness and moistness, which can moisten the intestines and stomach, produce body fluids, and plump muscles. Dates are a good medicine for nourishing blood and strengthening the spleen. Cooking these three foods into soup has good effects in nourishing the kidneys and blood, moistening the intestines, etc.

1: Ingredients: black beans, red dates, catfish, ginger. Method: Wash the black beans the night before and soak them for later use; wash the slaughtered catfish and drain the water; if the fish is large, cut it into two parts; wash the red dates and remove the core; pick up the black beans and rinse them; heat the pan, rub the pan with a small piece of cracked ginger, add two tablespoons of oil, put the catfish in and fry both sides until slightly yellow; pour 8 bowls of water into the pot and boil, add all the ingredients and boil over high heat, then simmer for one and a half hours, add salt to taste and drink. Efficacy: nourishes yin and kidney, blackens hair and nourishes blood, nourishes spleen and removes dampness. Black beans can nourish blood and replenish deficiency, catfish can nourish yin and replenish the kidney, and red dates can replenish blood and strengthen the spleen. The combination of the two can be used to treat women's headaches caused by blood deficiency, or tinnitus and thrombocytopenia caused by kidney deficiency and weak kidney qi.

1: Ingredients: 15g Tremella, 25g Lycium barbarum. Method: Put Tremella and Lycium barbarum into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, simmer until thick juice, add honey, simmer for another 5 minutes and then take. Take once every other day with warm water. Effect: This recipe has the effects of nourishing yin and kidney, replenishing qi and blood, moisturizing skin and improving complexion.

1: Ingredients: 20g of Cordyceps sinensis, 1 duck, appropriate amount of rice wine, MSG, scallion, ginger, salt, pepper, and clear soup. Method: After killing the duck, remove the internal organs, remove the hair, clean it, boil it in boiling water for about 15 minutes to remove the bloody smell, and cut it into small pieces; wash the Cordyceps sinensis to remove the mud and sand for later use. Add appropriate amount of water to the pot, add rice wine, scallion, ginger, pepper, salt, and season. Put the duck into the pot. Use chopsticks to poke a few small holes in the duck, insert the cleaned Cordyceps sinensis into each hole, add the seasoned clear soup, steam it in a steamer for 1 hour, and add appropriate amount of MSG to taste. Efficacy: Nourishes yin and kidneys. The effect can be seen after taking this soup for one week. It is suitable for symptoms such as soreness of waist and knees.

1: Ingredients: 10g each of Chinese yam, Polygonatum odoratum, Ophiopogon japonicus, 5g of Chinese wolfberry, 1 pigeon. Method: First, fry the blanched pigeon meat in a pot, then add boiling water. After the water boils, scoop the meat into a sand pot, then put the Chinese yam, Polygonatum odoratum, Ophiopogon japonicus, and Chinese wolfberry into another sand pot. After boiling for 10 minutes, pour the soup into the sand pot with the pigeon meat, simmer for 90 minutes, and add salt, MSG, chicken essence and other seasonings before serving. Efficacy: Chinese yam and white pigeon are excellent products for nourishing yin and kidney. This soup has the effects of strengthening the spleen and lungs, nourishing lung yin, benefiting essence and blood, nourishing yin and kidneys, and benefiting qi.

1: Ingredients: 500g pork belly, 50g yuba, 30g ginkgo, 30g coix seed, 10g gorgon, 1 water chestnut, 5g vegetable oil, salt to taste. Method: Rub the pork belly with salt and cornstarch, wash it, sew it several times in the same way until it has no odor, wash it and put it in boiling water for a while, take it out and wash it again and slice it. Cut the yuba into pieces and soak it in water. Peel and core the ginkgo, and slice the water chestnut. Boil water in a clay pot until it is about 80% full, add the pork belly and boil for about 1 hour, then add other ingredients and boil for another 1 hour, and season it. Efficacy: This soup has the effects of strengthening the spleen and appetite, nourishing yin and kidney, removing moisture and swelling, and it is nourishing without being dry.

The concept is usually implemented through diet therapy, which is healthier and more effective.