Ten stew recipes to nourish Yin and strengthen the kidneys

As a food with little nutrient loss and easy absorption, stewing soup is a must-have recipe for nourishing yin and tonifying yang. Turtle, black chicken, pigeon meat, lean meat, yam, etc. are all good products for nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney, and are most suitable for stewing soup.

1. Turtle Kidney Nourishing Soup

Ingredients: 1 turtle (over 300 grams), 10 grams of wolfberry, 15 grams of Rehmannia root.

Method: Kill the turtle, remove the head, claws, internal organs, and shell, clean it, cut it into small cubes, and put it into an aluminum pot; then put in the washed wolfberry and cooked rehmannia, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the turtle meat is cooked through. It can be eaten frequently.

Effect: nourishes yin and replenishes kidney. The black carp in the recipe can nourish yin and cool blood; wolfberry protects the liver and replenishes kidney, improves sperm quality and improves eyesight; cooked rehmannia nourishes yin and replenishes blood. This recipe is suitable for people with headaches due to kidney yin deficiency.

2. Braised black chicken with salvia miltiorrhiza and safflower

Ingredients: 800g black-bone chicken, 10g salvia miltiorrhiza, 6g safflower, 15g Fritillaria cirrhosa, 3g MSG, 5g ginger, 6g scallion, 5g salt, 2g pepper, and 10g cooking wine.

Preparation: Kill the black-bone chicken, remove the hair, internal organs and claws; soak the salvia miltiorrhiza and cut into thin slices; remove the impurities from the Fritillaria cirrhosa and cut into large grains; remove the impurities from the safflower and wash it; pound the ginger and cut the scallions into sections; put the black-bone chicken, Fritillaria cirrhosa, safflower, salvia miltiorrhiza, ginger, scallions and Shaoxing wine in a stew pot and add 2800 ml of 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.

3. Huaiqi, Dendrobium and Conch Soup

Ingredients: Chinese yam, wolfberry, dendrobium, fig, dried conch head, ginger, pork.

Preparation: Wash yam, wolfberry, dendrobium and figs and set aside; soak dried snails in hot water until soft, heat half a pot of water, add a small piece of ginger, put in the snails and blanch for 3-5 minutes and pick them up; wash the pork, cut into pieces, blanch and pick them up; pour 8 bowls of water into a clay pot and bring to a boil, add all the ingredients and boil over high heat, then simmer for two hours, add salt to taste and drink.

Effects: nourishing yin and kidney, dispelling wind and improving eyesight, strengthening spleen and appetite, nourishing kidney and benefiting essence. Snail head nourishes liver yin and improves eyesight. When boiled with wolfberry and dendrobium, which nourish yin and benefit liver, it tastes delicious and nourishing without being dry. It is especially helpful for those who work too hard or overuse their mind.

4. Sea cucumber stewed with lean pork soup

Ingredients: 250g lean pork, 250g soaked sea cucumber, 5 dates, and appropriate seasoning.

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 them. 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 to 3 hours. Season it.

Effects: nourishes the kidney and improves the essence, moisturizes the intestines and relieves dryness. Sea cucumber can nourish both kidney yang and kidney yin, and has the effect of nourishing both yin and yang and greatly replenishing vital energy. Pork lean meat is sweet, mild and moist, and can moisten the intestines and stomach, produce body fluids, and plump up muscles. Jujube is a good medicine for nourishing blood and strengthening the spleen. Cooking these three foods into soup has a good effect in nourishing the kidney and blood, moisturizing and lubricating the intestines.

5. Black bean, red dates, catfish and fish soup

Ingredients: black beans, red dates, catfish, ginger.

Preparation: Wash 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 cores; pick up the black beans and rinse them; heat the pan, rub the pan with a small piece of smashed ginger, add two tablespoons of oil, put the catfish in and fry both sides until lightly browned; pour 8 bowls of water into the pot and bring to a boil, add all the ingredients and boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for an hour and a half, add salt to taste and serve.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin and kidneys, blackens hair and nourishes blood, nourishes spleen and benefits dampness. Black beans can nourish blood and replenish deficiency, catfish nourishes yin and kidneys, and red dates nourish blood and strengthen spleen. The combination of the two can be used to regulate headaches caused by blood deficiency in women, or tinnitus and thrombocytopenia caused by kidney deficiency and kidney qi weakness.

6. Chestnut Chicken Soup

Ingredients: 100g chicken, 5g ginger, 10g wolfberry, 15-20 chestnuts.

Method: Chop the whole chicken into inch pieces, select 100 grams of bone-in meat, blanch it in boiling water, and put it into the soup pot. Then put wolfberry, chestnuts, and ginger into the pot in turn, and pour in an appropriate amount of soup. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for another hour over low heat. When it is out of the pot, add fine salt and it is ready to eat.

Efficacy: Chicken can replenish qi and blood, and treat spleen and stomach weakness; ginger can induce sweating and dispel cold, stop vomiting and detoxify; wolfberry can nourish the kidney and essence, nourish the liver and improve eyesight; chestnuts can replenish qi, nourish the stomach and kidneys, and have a therapeutic effect on loose stools. This chestnut chicken soup has a good tonic effect on fatigue, shortness of breath, kidney deficiency and low back pain.

7. Tremella and wolfberry soup

Ingredients: 15g Tremella fuciformis, 25g wolfberry.

Method: Put Tremella fuciformis and wolfberry into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, simmer until thick juice, add honey, simmer for another 5 minutes and then drink. Take once every other day with warm water.

Efficacy: This recipe has the effects of nourishing yin and kidney, replenishing qi and blood, moisturizing the skin and improving complexion.

8. Yuba, Ginkgo, and Pork Tripe Soup

Ingredients: 500g pork belly, 50g bean curd sticks, 30g ginkgo, 30g coix seeds, 10g Euryale ferox, 1 water chestnut, 5g vegetable oil, and appropriate amount of salt.

Method: Rub the pig stomach with salt and cornstarch, wash it, sew it several times 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 bean curd into pieces and soak it in water. Peel and core the ginkgo nuts and slice the water chestnuts. Boil water in a clay pot until it is about 80% full, add the pig stomach and boil for about 1 hour, then add other ingredients and boil for another hour, seasoning.

Efficacy: This soup has the effects of strengthening the spleen and appetite, nourishing yin and tonifying the kidneys, removing dampness and relieving swelling, and it is nourishing without being dry.

9. Cordyceps duck soup

Ingredients: 20g Cordyceps sinensis, 1 duck, appropriate amounts of rice wine, MSG, green onion, ginger, salt, pepper, and clear soup.

Method: Kill 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 sand and set aside. Add appropriate amount of water to the pot, add rice wine, green onion, 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.

Effect: Nourishes the yin and strengthens the kidneys. The effect can be seen after taking this soup for one week. Suitable for symptoms such as soreness of waist and knees.

10. Chinese Yam, Polygonatum, and White Pigeon Soup

Ingredients: 10g each of Chinese yam, Polygonatum odoratum, Ophiopogon japonicus, 5g of wolfberry, and 1 pigeon.

Preparation method: First put the blanched pigeon meat into the pot and fry it, then add boiling water. After the water boils, scoop the meat into the sand pot. Then put the yam, polygonatum, ophiopogon and wolfberry into another sand pot. After boiling for 10 minutes, pour the soup into the sand pot with the pigeon meat and simmer for 90 minutes. Add salt, MSG, chicken essence and other seasonings before serving.

Efficacy: Yam and white pigeon are excellent products for nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney. This soup has the effects of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lungs, nourishing lung yin, benefiting essence and blood, nourishing yin and tonifying the kidneys, and invigorating qi.

Nutritious and delicious stew will improve your health!