【Recipe Name】
Shudishuiyu Bao (Boiled Fish with Prepared Rehmannia)
【Ingredients】
One soft-shelled turtle, 30g wolfberries, 15g Chinese angelica, 15g Codonopsis pilosula, 15g prepared rehmannia
【Seasonings】
Clear broth, ginger and scallion juice, rice wine, salt
【Steps】
1. Wash the wolfberries, Chinese angelica, Codonopsis pilosula, and prepared rehmannia. Clean and slaughter the soft-shelled turtle. Blanch the turtle in boiling water and remove the internal organs, claws, shell, and head.
2. Pour the clear broth into a clay pot, add the turtle, rice wine, ginger and scallion juice, and bring to a boil over high heat. Remove any foam and add the wolfberries and prepared rehmannia. Simmer over low heat for 2 hours. Season with salt and serve.
【Health Benefits】
This soup has the effects of tonifying yang energy, strengthening the body, nourishing yin, and cooling the blood. However, it should not be consumed by pregnant women or those with spleen and stomach yang deficiency.
【Introduction of Ingredients】
Chinese angelica: Tonifies blood, promotes blood circulation, regulates menstruation, and relieves pain.
Wolfberries: Nourishes the liver and kidneys, nourishes essence, and improves eyesight. It is used for deficiency of essence and energy, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, internal heat and thirst, blood deficiency and withering, and blurred vision.
Codonopsis pilosula: Tonifies qi, generates body fluids, and nourishes blood. Oh, and it tastes great!
Prepared rehmannia: Nourishes yin, clears heat, cools blood, and stops bleeding. It is used to treat warm diseases with fever, red tongue, rashes, yin deficiency with internal heat, thirst, dizziness, chronic cough, dry mouth, sore lower back, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, urine with blood, irregular menstruation, blood deficiency with dry intestines, and rheumatic pain.
