Silver Ear Snow Clam Soup with Pearl and Lotus Seeds
Ingredients: 100g lean pork, 1 snow pear, 20g silver ear fungus, 3g snow clam paste, 20g lotus seeds.
Seasoning: Some rock sugar.
Instructions for Making Silver Ear Snow Clam Soup
1. Soak the snow clam paste in clear water for 5 minutes until it turns white. Remove any impurities and rinse. Boil in hot water for 5 minutes, then drain.
2. Wash the lean pork and cut into pieces. Wash the snow pear and cut into 4 pieces with the skin on, remove the core. Soak the silver ear fungus in water until it expands, then rinse and tear into small pieces. Wash the lotus seeds.
3. Put the snow pear, silver ear fungus, lotus seeds, and lean pork into a pot. Add enough water and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce to low heat and simmer for 1 hour. Add the snow clam paste and continue to simmer for another hour. Finally, melt the rock sugar and serve.
Benefits of this soup: This soup nourishes yin and lungs, and has the effects of clearing, moisturizing, and nourishing the lungs. It is often used for chronic cough due to yin deficiency.
Silver Ear Snow Clam Soup
Nutrition Tips: Snow clam paste nourishes yin and moisturizes dryness in the lungs; snow pear is cooling, clears and moisturizes the lungs, and quenches thirst. It is a commonly used fruit for dry and hot cough and heat-induced fluid depletion. Silver ear fungus nourishes yin and moisturizes the lungs, and replenishes lung yin. Lotus seeds have the functions of clearing the lungs, transforming phlegm, cooling the blood, and stopping bleeding. Lean pork nourishes yin and moisturizes dryness.
Tips for making soup: This soup is not suitable for those with cold and damp cough.
Notes on Consuming Silver Ear
Silver ear, also known as white fungus or snow ear, is a fungus rich in various nutrients and abundant nutritional components. It is not only a delicacy at banquets, but also a medicinal and high-grade nourishing supplement with various therapeutic effects... [more]
Tips from Soups.com
Silver ear and lotus seeds can be eaten together: Eating silver ear with lotus seeds helps promote gastrointestinal motility and reduce fat absorption. It also has the effects of removing brown spots and freckles from the face.
Tofu and silver ear can be eaten together: Eating tofu with silver ear nourishes qi and blood, moisturizes the lungs, and protects the liver.
