Ze Xie, as a commonly used precious Chinese herbal medicine, can not only be used for medicinal purposes, but also can be used to make soup for consumption. Below, I will recommend some Ze Xie dietary recipes for you, which are delicious and irresistible!
Medicinal Recipe 1: Ze Xie Pig Bone Soup
Ingredients: 80g of lentils, 80g of barley, 12g of Poria cocos, 12g of Ze Xie, 5 red dates, 500g of pig bones, 3 slices of ginger.
Method: Wash all the ingredients separately, soak the herbal ingredients, remove the pits from the red dates, and crack the pig bones. Put everything into a clay pot, add 2500ml of water (about 10 bowls), bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer on low heat for about 2 hours. Add salt to taste. Serves 3-4 people.
Medicinal Recipe 2: Ze Xie Crucian Carp Soup
Ingredients: 800g of old winter melon, 1/2 piece of fresh lotus leaf, 12g of Poria cocos, 12g of Ze Xie (available at Chinese medicine stores), 80g of Job's tears, 1 crucian carp, 100g of lean pork, 3 slices of ginger.
Method: Wash all the ingredients, cut the winter melon into chunks with the skin and seeds intact, soak the Chinese herbs and Job's tears. Rinse the crucian carp and fry until slightly golden, then add a little water. Put everything into a clay pot, add 3000ml of water (about 12 bowls), bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer on low heat for two and a half hours. Add salt to taste. Serves 3-5 people.
Efficacy: Consuming this soup can have magical effects of clearing heat, relieving summer heat, and dispelling dampness.
Medicinal Recipe 3: Delicious Fat-burning Soup
Ingredients: Ze Xie, Dang Shen, Plantago seeds (wrapped in cloth), Huai Shan, Hawthorn, lean meat (without fat).
Method: Boil all the ingredients with 3 large bowls of water for 2-3 hours. After the water boils, simmer on low heat. After it's done, eat it as a meal. You can eat the meat, but make sure to be full.
Efficacy: As the name suggests, this soup can help eliminate excess fat in the body.
Medicinal Recipe 4: Ze Xie Congee
Ingredients: 10g of Ze Xie, 100g of rice, a little white sugar.
Method: Clean the Ze Xie, put it in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, decoct and extract the juice, then add rice to cook the congee. When it is cooked, add white sugar and boil for another one or two times. Take 1-2 doses per day.
Efficacy: Regular consumption of this congee has good therapeutic effects on conditions such as difficult urination, edema, diarrhea, cloudy urine, leukorrhea, phlegm retention, and kidney yin deficiency, as well as nocturnal emission and dizziness caused by excessive internal heat.
