What to eat at home during the Chinese New Year? Why not try the Three Snow Clam Flower and Lean Pork Soup, which is a traditional Han Chinese medicinal cuisine in Guangdong Province, belonging to the Cantonese cuisine.
【Name】
Three Snow Clam Flower and Lean Pork Soup
【Ingredients】
250g lean pork, 4 snow pears, 60g snow fungus, 30g snow clam paste, 60g clam flower.
【Preparation】
(1) Soak the snow clam paste in water for 5 minutes until it turns white, remove impurities, rinse, and cook in boiling water for 5 minutes. Remove and drain. Wash the lean pork and cut into chunks. Wash the snow pears, cut into 4 pieces with skin, remove the core. Soak the snow fungus in water, rinse, and pick small pieces. Wash the clam flower.
(2) Put the snow pears, snow fungus, clam flower, and lean pork into a pot. Add an appropriate amount of water. Boil over high heat, then simmer for 1 hour. Add the snow clam paste and simmer for another hour. Season and serve.
【Health Benefits】
This soup combines both nourishing and moisturizing effects, and is commonly used for lung deficiency with dry heat and coughing.
The "Three Snow" in the soup is sweet and nourishing to the lungs. Snow clam paste nourishes lung yin and moisturizes lung dryness, making it a commonly used product for yin deficiency and chronic cough. Snow pears are cool in nature, moisturize the lungs, stop coughing, and can also produce body fluids and quench thirst. They are commonly used fruits for dry heat cough, and heat-induced thirst. Snow fungus nourishes yin, moisturizes the lungs, and nourishes lung yin.
Clam flower, also known as clam orchid, is sweet and cool in nature. It has the functions of clearing the lungs, transforming phlegm, cooling the blood, and stopping bleeding. "Fujian Folk Herbs" states that it can "clear the blood, relieve fever, stop bleeding, and treat dysentery." "Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine" states that it can "stop coughing, eliminate phlegm fire, treat tuberculosis with hemoptysis, and phlegm fire nucleus." "Lingnan Medicinal Plants" believes that using clam flower to "treat bloody stool, hemoptysis, and decoct it with pork soup" can cure the diseases. Lean pork has the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness. When combined, they all contribute to the function of clearing, moisturizing, and nourishing the lungs.
