Many people believe that our health is determined by what we eat. Therefore, modern people pay great attention to their diet. Snow pork stewed with kelp is an excellent meal that can help restore liver function and promote protein metabolism. You can eat it with peace of mind!
【Ingredients】
400g snow pork, 150g kelp, green onion, ginger slices, salt, yellow wine, and sesame oil as needed.
【Method】
1. Soak the kelp and steam it in a steamer for about half an hour. Take it out and soak it in clean water for 4 hours. After fully rehydrating, wash and drain it, and cut it into rectangular pieces. Wash the snow pork, cut it open along the bones, and chop it into approximately 4 cm segments. Boil it briefly in boiling water, and then rinse it with warm water.
2. Add 1000g of water to a clean pot, add the snow pork, green onion, ginger slices, and yellow wine. Bring it to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, and then simmer over medium heat for about 20 minutes. Add the kelp pieces, bring it to a boil again over high heat for 10 minutes, remove the ginger slices and green onion, season with salt, and drizzle with sesame oil.
【Ingredient Analysis】
Kelp in this dish has a salty taste and a cool nature. It can soften hardness, disperse masses, clear heat, promote diuresis, calm cough, and relieve asthma. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that fucoidan in kelp has the function of replenishing blood and stopping bleeding. It can prevent leukemia and ostealgia, and reduce the absorption of certain radioactive elements like strontium in the intestines. The alginic acid in kelp is an excellent dietary fiber that can promote gastrointestinal motility, regulate intestinal function, and prevent constipation, colorectal cancer, and rectal cancer.
Snow pork is rich in calcium, which is an excellent source of calcium for the human body. Kelp is rich in iodine, an essential substance for the production of thyroid hormones and the maintenance of intellectual development. Eating snow pork with kelp can provide the body with abundant nutrients.
【Characteristics of Medicinal Cuisine】
This dish has tender pork that falls off the bone and smooth kelp. The taste of the entire dish is delicious, and the broth is flavorful. According to "Ben Jing Feng Yuan," snow pork has the effect of "nourishing the liver and replenishing blood." The "Sui Xi Ju Yin Shi Pu" states that kelp has the function of treating external lumps, lymphadenitis, abscesses, and fistulas. Therefore, stewing snow pork with kelp can relieve the suffering of patients with generalized or localized itching of the skin, especially on the limbs.
