Do you know how to make the Lean Meat Soup with Longan Fruit? When you hear the name, do you feel very appetizing? Let me introduce you to Longan Fruit and the recipe for Lean Meat Soup with Longan Fruit!
Longan Fruit
Alias: Pinpo Fruit ("Lingwai Da Da"), Nine-layer Skin ("Junzi Tang Ri Xun Shou Jing"), Luo Huang Zi ("Gangmu"), Pan An Fruit ("Sheng Cao Yao Xing Bei Yao"), Seven Sisters Fruit, Rich and Noble Child ("Guangzhou Plant Records").
Original Form of Longan Fruit
Tall tree, up to 10 meters. The bark is brown.
The leaves are paper-like, broadly rounded or elliptic, 8-25 cm long, 5-15 cm wide, gradually pointed or blunt at the apex, blunt at the base, and clean and hairless;
The leaf stalk is 2.5-5 cm long. The conical inflorescence is drooping, 8-28 cm long;
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The flower is unisexual, without corolla; the calyx is pink, 5-cleft to the middle, the lobes are triangular and linear, and covered with short soft hairs;
The stamens and pistils are few, the ovary is hairy, stalked, 5-cleft, and the stigma is curved.
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The fruit is leathery, ovoid, 4-8 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide, with a beak, dark red when ripe, and covered with short hairs.
There are 1-5 seeds, elliptical and spherical, dark chestnut. The flowering period is in May and the fruiting period is in June to July (in Guizhou).
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Habitat Distribution
Wild in mountain slope forests or shrubs, also cultivated. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places.
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Recipe for Lean Meat Soup with Longan Fruit
Ingredients: 10 Longan Fruits, 50g Lean Meat.
Instructions: 1. Peel the Longan Fruits, slice the lean meat.
2. Use 4 bowls of water and simmer until 1 bowl is left. Season with salt and it is ready to eat.
Effects: Expels roundworms, relieves accumulation, strengthens spleen and stomach.
