Three Snow Clam and Lean Pork Soup
Three Snow Clam and Lean Pork Soup is a traditional Han cuisine medicinal food in Guangdong Province, belonging to Cantonese cuisine. It nourishes the lungs, transforms phlegm, and stops coughing. It is suitable for symptoms such as dry throat with thick yellow phlegm or dry cough without phlegm caused by lung dryness and heat. Soak the snow clam in clear water for 5 minutes until it turns white, remove any impurities, wash it, and boil it in boiling water for 5 minutes. Remove and drain. Wash the lean pork, cut it into pieces; wash the snow pear, cut it into 4 pieces with the skin, remove the core, soak the snow fungus in clear water, wash it, and pick small pieces, and wash the clam flower. Put the snow pear, snow fungus, clam flower, and lean pork into the pot. Add an appropriate amount of water, bring it to a boil over high heat, and simmer for 1 hour over low heat. Add the snow clam and simmer for another hour. Season and serve.
Chinese Name: Three Snow Clam and Lean Pork Soup
Main Ingredients: Lean pork, snow clam, snow fungus, snow pear
Cuisine: Cantonese cuisine
Taboo: Not suitable for those with cold and damp cough
Basic Information
Recipe Name: Three Snow Clam and Lean Pork Soup
Cuisine Type: Cantonese cuisine
Category: Soup Dish
Basic Characteristics
It can be used for long-term cough with deficiency of lung yin and excessive fire, as well as for tuberculosis with bloody phlegm, hot flashes, irritability, and lymphadenitis.
Basic Ingredients
250g lean pork, 4 snow pears, 60g snow fungus, 30g snow clam, 60g clam flower.
Preparation Method
(1) Soak the snow clam in clear water for 5 minutes until it turns white, remove any impurities, wash it, and boil it in boiling water for 5 minutes. Remove and drain. Wash the lean pork, cut it into pieces; wash the snow pear, cut it into 4 pieces with the skin, remove the core, soak the snow fungus in clear water, wash it, and pick small pieces, and wash the clam flower.
(2) Put the snow pear, snow fungus, clam flower, and lean pork into the pot. Add an appropriate amount of water, bring it to a boil over high heat, and simmer for 1 hour over low heat. Add the snow clam and simmer for another hour. Season and serve.
Medicinal Effects
Note
This soup combines nourishing and moisturizing properties. It is a commonly used soup for lung deficiency and dryness, cough, and wheezing caused by heat. The "three snow" in the soup nourishes and moisturizes the lungs. Snow clam nourishes lung yin and moisturizes dryness, and is a commonly used ingredient for long-term cough due to yin deficiency. Snow pear is cool in nature, clears and moisturizes the lungs, stops coughing, and can also generate body fluids and quench thirst. It is a commonly used fruit for dry and hot cough, and heat injury with thirst. Snow fungus nourishes yin and moisturizes the lungs, and replenishes lung yin. Clam flower, also known as clam orchid, is sweet and cool in nature, and has the functions of clearing the lungs, transforming phlegm, cooling blood, and stopping bleeding. "Fujian Folk Herbs" states that it can "purify the blood, reduce fever, stop bleeding, and treat dysentery." "Guangdong Chinese Herbal Medicine" states that it can "stop cough, remove phlegm fire, treat tuberculosis with hemoptysis, and phlegm fire nucleus." "Lingnan Medicinal Herbs" believes that using clam flower to "treat bloody stools, hemoptysis, and boil it with pork and drink the soup" can cure the conditions. Lean pork has the function of nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness. When combined, they work together to nourish and moisturize the lungs.
