After the summer solstice, there will be three days. Three volts, specifically refers to the first volt, middle volt and last volt, is also the hottest period of the year, therefore, in the mainland folk known as "heat in three volts" said. If you use 6 words to describe the climatic characteristics of the three-volt day, it is "high temperature, high humidity, high heat", which is easy to make people feel uncomfortable.
Mother is a person who pays attention to "food supplements", remember that after the summer solstice every year, until the end of the three volt days, she always likes to use a variety of natural foods to match, make sweet soup for us to eat, and always advise, the hotter the weather, the more attention should be paid to the diet to cool off the heat.
In my mother's view, the "modern" way of eating and drinking heat - ice cream and ice drinks, is not the best policy, they contain a lot of sugar and food additives, can only meet the needs of the stomach for a while, eat more nutritious and healthy food, is the treatment of symptoms and root causes.
This sweet soup made by my mother in the summer is soft and sweet, refreshing and thirst-quenching, and really better than any ice cream and cold drink.
Below, I will share the practice of mung bean kelp sugar water learned from my mother, midsummer has arrived, mung beans and kelp are a perfect match, drink 1 bowl a day, energetic to welcome "three volts".
Mung bean kelp sugar water
Ingredients: 200 grams of mung beans, kelp to taste, 1 slice of ice flake sugar, water to taste
1, mung beans clean, if there is no pressure cooker, you need to soak the mung beans for 2 hours, or put into the refrigerator one night in advance to refrigerate and soak; The kelp is soaked in warm water in advance and then cut into small strips;
2. Put the processed mung beans, kelp and ice flakes into the pressure cooker, add enough water, and start the "boiling porridge" function; If there is no pressure cooker, you can use an electric rice cooker or an electric cooking pot, and the mung beans that have been soaked can easily be boiled and flowered;
3, cooked mung bean kelp sugar water, you can drink while hot, you can also put it in the refrigerator for a while and then drink, very delicious.
A few simple steps, a pot of mung bean kelp sugar water to relieve heat and thirst, if the weather is hot, sweaty, want to drink cold drinks to quench thirst, may wish to cook this sugar water in advance, after drinking it will make people feel cool, there will be no sweet feeling after drinking cold drinks and the guilt of fear of long meat. Both for breakfast and afternoon tea are perfect.
【Lazy Meow Experience】
My mother often cooked me this mung bean kelp sugar water in the summer, and then once went to a friend's house in Guangdong as a guest, and saw that their family was also cooking this sugar water, I learned that this is actually a very classic Cantonese sugar water, in Guangdong, almost every household will do it. Mung beans and kelp are both ingredients that are very suitable for eating in the summer, and the two are a perfect match.
Although the practice of mung bean kelp syrup is very simple and there are no requirements for cooking, there are still some details that need attention. Therefore, don't be in a hurry to get started, first patiently read the following 3 suggestions, so that the mung bean kelp sugar water cooked out will be more delicious:
1, the amount of mung beans and kelp, not a fixed proportion, can be adjusted according to their own personal preferences, to mung beans as the mainstay, kelp as a supplement, if you prefer to drink sugar water, you can put less mung beans and kelp;
2, Cantonese sugar water in the sweet taste, like to use ice flake sugar, if it is not convenient to use icing sugar, with ordinary white sugar, rock sugar and even brown sugar can do;
3, if you do not like to eat too soft glutinous mung beans, then you can slightly shorten the cooking time, especially when cooking with a pressure cooker, the cooking time should not exceed 20 minutes, otherwise it is likely to cook a pot of mung bean paste.
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