Kidney fatigue in summer, choose three dietary therapies to nourish the kidneys

It takes a long time to strengthen the kidneys through food therapy. If you only eat kidney-strengthening foods for one or two days, the effect will definitely be unsatisfactory. Especially in the hot summer, people have a poor appetite, so they should eat some special and strange foods to strengthen the kidneys, such as bull whip, ox tail, etc.

Stewed Oxtail with Wolfberry

Main ingredients: 1 oxtail with skin (about 750 grams), 50 grams of wolfberry, 25 grams of cooking wine, 5 grams of MSG, 7.5 grams of fine salt, 30 grams of ginger, a little soy sauce, and 1500 grams of clear soup.

Preparation method: Divide wolfberry into two portions, boil one portion with 25g water to get 25g of concentrated juice, and wash the other portion with clean water. Scrape and clean the oxtail, chop it into sections, blanch it in a boiling water pot, take it out and wash it, and slice the ginger. Put the oxtail, ginger, and 25g of wolfberry in a clay pot, add clear soup, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, and refined salt, boil it over high heat, then add 25g of wolfberry concentrated juice, simmer it over low heat, remove it, pick out the ginger and green onions, and serve it on the table with the clay pot. Efficacy description: Nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens the tendons and bones. Suitable for people with kidney deficiency.

Braised Beef Whip

The main ingredients are 1000 grams of bull whip (i.e. the bull's reproductive organ), 500 grams of chicken soup, 60 grams of green onion, 30 grams of ginger, 12 grams of garlic cloves, 15 grams of pepper oil, 75 grams of cooked lard, 12 grams of soy sauce, 50 grams of wet starch, appropriate amounts of refined salt, MSG, sugar, cooking wine, and a little pepper and sugar.

Preparation method: Wash the bull whip, cut the skin, blanch it in boiling water, take it out, peel off the skin and wash it again, put 2500 grams of water in the pot, add 20 grams of green onion, 10 grams of ginger, and a little pepper, put the bull whip into the pot and cook until it is cooked (it is better to pinch it with your hands), take it out, break it in half, remove the urethra, and cut it into 3 cm pieces. Simmer over low heat until the soup is almost dry, pick out the green onion and ginger, use wet starch to make a thick starch, and drizzle a little pepper oil.

Goji Berry and Lamb Kidney Porridge

Main ingredients: 250 grams of wolfberry leaves, 1 sheep kidney, 100 grams of mutton, about 150 grams of polished rice, 2 scallions, and a little fine salt.

Preparation method: clean the sheep kidney, remove the inner membrane, and chop it finely. Then wash and chop the mutton. Use the decoction of wolfberry leaves to remove the residue, and cook porridge with the mutton kidney, mutton, green onion and glutinous rice. When the porridge is ready, add a little fine salt and cook for a while.

Benefits: It nourishes kidney yin, replenishes kidney qi, and strengthens primordial yang. It is suitable for kidney deficiency, fatigue, dizziness, tinnitus, hearing loss or deafness, impotence, etc.