Mung bean and kelp soup

Mung bean and kelp soup

Overview

People in summer are prone to excessive anger. Southerners often add mung beans with kelp and a small amount of rock sugar to make a liver-regulating and qi-regulating soup - mung bean and kelp soup, which has the effect of clearing away heat, relieving heat, clearing the liver and reducing fire. Mung beans are cool in nature and sweet in taste, enter the spleen and stomach meridians, and have the functions of relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and detoxification, diuresis and moisturizing. They are a good product for removing fire and relieving heat in summer. In hot weather, you sweat more, lose a lot of water, and destroy the electrolyte balance in your body. Making mung bean soup to supplement it is the most ideal way. Kelp is a food that is cold in nature and bitter in taste. It enters the liver, stomach, and kidney meridians and has the functions of softening and dispersing stagnation, clearing away heat and reducing phlegm, and diuresis. Eating more kelp in summer is a good way to lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and prevent cancer, because kelp contains a variety of organic substances and elements such as iodine, potassium, calcium, and iron, as well as protein, fatty acids, sugars, multivitamins, and niacin. The combination of mung beans and kelp makes this mung bean and kelp soup not only prevent excessive liver fire caused by heat, relieve common summer symptoms such as headache, dizziness, bitter mouth and dry mouth, but also assist in the treatment of early-stage hypertension.

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Steps

  1. Wash the skin of kelp and cut it into sections, add a tablespoon of white vinegar and cover with a lid

    Mung bean and kelp soup step 1

  2. Put it in the microwave on high heat for 5-6 minutes

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  3. After taking it out, add water to soak the kelp.

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  4. After 10 minutes, the kelp will be soaked. Wash it section by section and both sides again

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  5. Prepare the ingredients for cooking kelp soup: 1 large piece of sugar and 1 piece of tangerine peel. A small bowl of mung beans. No need to soak the mung beans in advance

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  6. Washed kelp and cut into shreds,

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  7. Pour the mung beans into the basin

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  8. Add water to wash away the dust

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  9. Install it with a leaky sieve

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  10. Put the washed mung beans directly into the pot and fry over low heat for 2 minutes

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  11. Pour directly into the pressure cooker

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  12. Add an appropriate amount of water and add washed tangerine peel. The tangerine peel warms the stomach. Mung beans and kelp are both cold foods. Add the tangerine peel to remove the fishy smell and neutralize the coldness of the kelp and mung beans.

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  13. Add kelp shreds

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  14. Cover the lid and cook in the induction cooker. After the steam valve of the pressure cooker comes on, turn down the heat and set the timer for 5 minutes. When the time is up, turn off the heat for about 7-8 minutes and wait for the valve of the pressure cooker to fall down before opening the lid. When the mung beans bloom and are not too rotten, add the borneol and mix well. Let it cool before drinking. You can also refrigerate it before drinking. It feels better!

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  15. Ladle into a bowl

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  16. Drink kelp and mung bean soup

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