When people reach middle age, there are old and young, and the pressure is really great, especially for middle-aged women, who have to work and take care of their families, and they are still facing menopause, and sometimes they are not understood by their families, which is not easy. Menopause is a hurdle, and women should take care of themselves. Be kind to yourself when you can.
After the valley rain, the spring and summer seasons, the water in the body will be lost with sweating, and many people will feel upset and hot, especially women with weak physique and women who are easy to get angry. At this time, in addition to drinking more water, you should also drink more soup to supplement nutrition comprehensively and prepare for the hot summer.
As the old saying goes, "Drink more soup in the spring and summer seasons, and doctors don't need to prescribe it", and it is recommended that the soup that is drunk in the new season is mild and nourishing. My family makes soup, generally using local chicken to make soup, the taste is sweet and not greasy, more nutritious and more delicious than the soup made by broiler chicken. Compared to duck and beef and mutton soup, chicken soup is more suitable for most women. When cooking chicken soup, add a little yam, which has the benefit of strengthening the spleen and stomach. In addition, I also like to add a little astragalus to replenish qi and saffron to invigorate blood.
Speaking of saffron, it is a precious traditional Chinese medicine, saffron contains sodium saffronate, saffron ester and other substances, which can play a role in protecting the liver and enhancing the liver's resistance. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that saffron into the heart, liver two meridians, can reduce adversity and smooth qi, open knots and eliminate stasis, has the effect of relieving depression and calming the nerves, saffron also has the effect of invigorating blood and removing stasis, is to improve women's amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, stasis and swelling pain, the effect of menstrual pain is obvious, especially suitable for menopausal women, spring and summer seasons can use saffron to make soup.
The following is to share with you the practice of yam saffron chicken soup, the ingredients that need to be prepared are: half an iron stick yam, more than a dozen saffron, 2 grams of astragalus, half a local chicken, 2 tablespoons of cooking wine, a little ginger, and an appropriate amount of salt.
Clean the chicken and chop it into cubes of about 3 cm. If you can't buy pure local chicken, you can use a better quality orchard chicken or three yellow chicken, and it is not recommended to use too tender broiler chicken to make soup.
Put the local chicken into the pot with cold water, add 2 tablespoons of cooking wine, heat over medium heat, boil for another 5 minutes, remove and clean the foam, and drain the water.
While blanching the chicken, peel the yam, cut it diagonally into long sections, peel and shred the ginger.
Blanch the chicken in an electric pressure cooker, add an appropriate amount of water, add the yam, saffron and astragalus, and choose the soup cooking program for about 20 minutes. Different brands of electric pressure cookers have different cooking times, so it is recommended to flexibly adjust the time according to your own commonly used pots and pans.
After the soup is completed, it is normal for the chicken soup with saffron to turn yellow, add an appropriate amount of salt to taste according to personal taste, and a nutritious and delicious yam saffron chicken soup is ready.
Drink more of this soup in spring and summer, one protects the liver, two calms the nerves, and three invigorates the blood, especially suitable for menopausal women. If you like what I shared today, please bookmark, light up "watching", and at the same time "forward" to share with other friends, "follow" Longbao food kitchen, you can see more food practices. Longbao gourmet small kitchen has original pictures and texts, and theft must be investigated!