The heat is coming, and the heat is about to melt people.
The mung bean soup that relieves the heat can be arranged again!
As the most popular summer drink, mung bean soup is not a waste of time -
Eat mung beans, lower the fire without hurting the stomach!
When on fire, we have symptoms such as red eyes, sore gums, tinnitus or nosebleeds.
Chinese medicine believes that this is caused by the fire is too fierce, the liquid evaporation is excessive, and the "fire" can be lowered by eating cold food or medicinal materials.
However, many of the products that clear heat and reduce fire have a "bitter cold" sexual taste.
Therefore, there are often such a situation: the fire is lowered, but the spleen and stomach are injured, which in turn causes other discomfort.
There are also some people who have a bad spleen and stomach, and they are "discouraged" from cold fire-lowering food.
Hey hey, at this time I have to mention the excellent green beans~
Mung beans to reduce fire, using the method of "clear running", that is, the fire is also "moist", so as to play a role in nourishing the spleen and stomach.
This is the essence of "gan": it can replenish, can harmonize, and can ease.
Therefore, if you are worried that eating cold food will hurt your stomach, you may wish to try the milder mung beans.
Although mung beans are as good as a thousand, but there are also some precautions, it is best to understand before eating -
Drink mung bean soup, these 3 mistakes don't make!
1. Do not cook in an iron pot
The polyphenols in mung beans can chemically react with iron to form darker complexes.
Not only does it affect the taste, but it will also easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort, making people feel bloated and uncomfortable throughout the day.
Recommendation: You can use casseroles, rice cookers, pressure cookers, etc.
2. Do not peel
Many people will remove the skin of mung beans for the taste, and it is really not recommended that you do this!
As Li Shizhen said, "mung beans, flat meat, cold skin", the reason why mung beans can clear the heat and relieve the heat, the biggest "hero" is actually its skin.
You have to remove the skin, then the detoxification effect can be greatly reduced
3. Don't cook for too long
We said above that the skin is the key to the heat of mung beans, and if it is cooked for too long, it will also weaken the detoxification effect of mung beans.
Recommendation: Generally boil the pot and then cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
Of course, if you are not used to eating such hard mung beans, you can first put out part of the soup to drink, and then cook the rest slightly softer.
Finally, to introduce you to a few tips for boiling mung beans -
Mung beans are cooked like this, which is more refreshing and cool, and the taste is also great!
1. Add one thing to cook, the health effect is doubled
Add some other foods when cooking mung beans, the health effect is better, it can be described as a strong combination~
Recommend 5 pairings that are perfect for eating in the summer -
With lotus seeds: double the heat, nourish the heart and kidneys;
With pumpkin: replenish water, sweating in summer is more necessary;
With kelp: classic combination, able to reduce fire and laxative;
With red dates: qi and blood double supplement, healthy spleen and calm;
With tangerine peel: strengthen the spleen and stomach, digestion and digestion.
2. Two mung beans boiled to blossom a little trick
Method 1: Wash the mung beans, add water over the mung beans, put them into the freezing layer of the refrigerator, after 4 hours, put the "frozen mung beans" directly in the pot and heat the water, and soon flower.
Method two: fry the dried beans in a pan first, feel a little wrinkled, immediately pour into the cold water to boil, cook for a while and then flower.