Red Bean Soup

Introduction

Name: Red Bean Soup

Nature and flavor: neutral, sweet and sour.

Meridians: Enter the heart and small intestine meridians.

Efficacy: Diuresis and swelling, clearing away heat and relieving jaundice, detoxifying and discharging pus.

Indications: moisturizing the intestines and relieving constipation, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, regulating blood sugar, preventing stones, bodybuilding and weight loss

Nutritional value of red bean soup

Nutritional Information

Calories: 309 kcal

Potassium: 860 mg

Phosphorus: 305 mg

Magnesium: 138 mg

Carotene: 80 micrograms

Calcium: 74 mg

Carbohydrates: 63.4 g

The efficacy and function of red bean soup

Red bean soup can relieve summer heat, clear away heat, promote diuresis and strengthen the stomach, benefit the liver, spleen and kidneys. It is suitable for symptoms such as puffiness, edema, and difficulty urinating. Candidates who have overused it have had poor stomach function, frequent urination, but little urine volume. This soup can be an ideal health product or a snack. It can also be eaten by patients with chronic hepatitis or gastritis.

Red bean soup can promote diuresis and strengthen the stomach, treat puffiness, edema, and chronic hepatitis.

1. Red beans are rich in folic acid. Postpartum women and nursing mothers can eat more red beans to promote lactation.

2. Adzuki beans contain more dietary fiber, which has good effects on moistening the intestines and facilitating bowel movements, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and fighting cancer, preventing stones, and bodybuilding and weight loss;

3. Adzuki beans contain more saponins, which can stimulate the intestines, so they have a good diuretic effect, can relieve alcohol, detoxify, and are beneficial for heart disease, kidney disease, and edema;

Side effects and contraindications of red bean soup

Red beans have a diuretic function and should not be eaten by people who urinate frequently.

Food incompatibility

Adzuki beans: Carp and red beans can both be cooked together, as they can promote diuresis and reduce swelling. They are very effective in treating edema caused by nephritis. However, precisely because their diuretic function is so strong, normal people should avoid eating them at the same time, and try to eat them a few hours apart. Whether they can be eaten together depends on different people's physical constitutions.

How to make delicious red bean soup

Pumpkin and Red Bean Soup

Ingredients: 200 grams of pumpkin, 50 grams of red beans, appropriate amounts of salt and MSG.

practice:

1. Soak red beans in clean water for half a day, put them into a pressure cooker and cook until 90% cooked, then take them out; wash the pumpkin and cut it into small pieces.

2. Put the red beans and pumpkin into a clay pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook on low heat until the pumpkin is cooked, then season with salt and MSG.

Lotus Root and Red Bean Soup

Ingredients: 500 grams of pork ribs, 3 lotus roots, half a bowl of red beans, 3 candied dates, and 1 tangerine peel.

practice:

1. Peel the lotus root and cut it into small pieces. Wash the red beans and blanch the pork bones for later use.

2. Soak the tangerine peel in warm water until soft, and use a knife to scrape off the white flesh (it is said that it will be hotter if not scraped).

3. Put all the ingredients into a soup pot, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours.

4. After cooking, use a grease trap to skim off the fat and you can drink it (I usually don’t add salt when cooking soup to keep its original flavor).

effect:

1. Red beans are mild in nature, sweet and sour in taste, non-toxic, and have the effects of nourishing and strengthening, strengthening the spleen and stomach, promoting diuresis and removing dampness, clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting lactation and replenishing blood. Red beans are rich in iron and have the effect of replenishing blood. They are a good tonic for women during their menstrual period. Eating more red beans can also replenish blood, promote blood circulation, strengthen physical strength, and enhance resistance.

2. Lotus root tastes sweet and is rich in starch, protein, vitamin C and B1, as well as inorganic salts such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron. Lotus root meat is easy to digest and suitable for nourishment for both young and old. Raw lotus root is cold in nature, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving restlessness, cooling blood, stopping bleeding and dispersing stasis; cooked lotus root is warm in nature, and has the functions of nourishing the heart and generating blood, nourishing and strengthening the body, and strengthening the spleen and stomach.

Black Chicken and Red Bean Soup

Ingredients: 1000 grams of black-bone chicken, 150 grams of red beans, 20 grams of polygonatum, 10 grams of tangerine peel, and 4 grams of salt.

practice:

1. Soak red beans and tangerine peel in water and wash them;

2. Wash the Polygonatum odoratum;

3. Kill the black chicken, remove the hair and internal organs, and wash it;

4. Pour an appropriate amount of water into the soup pot, bring to a boil, and add the black chicken, red beans, polygonatum, and tangerine peel into the pot;

5. After boiling, skim off the foam, then cook over medium heat for 3 hours and season with salt.

effect:

1. Adzuki beans contain more saponins, which can stimulate the intestines, so they have a good diuretic effect, can relieve alcohol and detoxify, and are beneficial for heart disease, kidney disease and edema.

2. Black chicken is rich in melanin, protein, B vitamins, 18 kinds of amino acids and 18 trace elements, including niacin, vitamin E, phosphorus and iron.

Crucian carp and red bean soup

Efficacy: Crucian carp contains protein, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, calcium, sodium, iron, phosphorus, etc. It has the effects of tonifying qi, removing dampness and promoting lactation. Red beans have the effect of tonifying qi and nourishing blood. Eating them together can not only increase milk secretion, but also promote maternal recovery.

Ingredients: 1 crucian carp (about 450g), 100g red beans, 2 pieces of green onion, 3 slices of old ginger, 1 tablespoon (15ml) cooking wine, 1g salt.

practice:

1. Remove the internal organs, gills and scales of the crucian carp, clean it, and marinate it with cooking wine for 10 minutes.

2. Wash the red beans, put them into a cooking pot, add appropriate amount of cold water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until 70% cooked.

3. Put the cleaned crucian carp into a cooking pot, add scallion segments and ginger slices, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium-low heat and continue to simmer for 30 minutes. Add salt to taste.

Osmanthus Red Bean Soup

Efficacy: Red beans contain protein, carbohydrates, multiple vitamins and minerals. Red beans also have diuretic and detumescent effects.

Ingredients: 500 grams of red beans, 15 grams of starch, appropriate amounts of brown sugar and osmanthus sauce.

practice:

1. Wash the red beans, put them into a pot, add water and bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat until the beans are cooked but not yet bloomed, then add brown sugar;

2. Cook over low heat until the red beans bloom, add osmanthus sauce, thicken with water starch, stir well and serve.

Winter melon and red bean soup

Efficacy: Red beans have antibacterial and detoxifying effects. Regular consumption has good effects on weight loss and beauty. Winter melon can promote metabolism in the body, effectively prevent fat accumulation, and reduce appetite. This soup is most suitable for weight loss in summer, eliminates moisture in the body, clears and reduces stomach fire, regulates appetite, and has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. It can also improve allergic skin caused by medical symptoms in summer.

Ingredients: 100 grams of red beans, 200 grams of winter melon, and appropriate amount of salt.

practice:

1. Wash the red beans, soak them in clean water for 2 hours and then remove them; wash and peel the winter melon. Scoop out the inner pulp and cut into pieces.

2. Place the casserole on the fire, add a full pot of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then add red beans. After boiling, turn to low heat and cook for 20 minutes until the red bean skin is slightly cracked.

3. Put the winter melon pieces into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium heat and cook until the winter melon becomes transparent. Add salt to taste.

Milk Red Bean Soup

Ingredients: red beans, milk.

practice:

1. Pick out the red beans first. It is best to buy new red beans, that is, don't buy old ones. In this way, you can put them directly into the pot without soaking them in water, and they will rot quickly;

2. Put the selected and washed red beans into the pot, add a small amount of water (not too much), cover, and cook. First boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about 40 minutes. It's okay as long as it's rotten. If it's not rotten, stir it with a spoon;

3. Pour the fresh milk into the cooking bean paste, stir while pouring, and then cook over medium heat. Do not let it foam.

4. Finally, add sugar (add more if you like it sweeter) and remove from heat!

Barley and red bean soup

Effect: Red beans can make you have a rosy complexion, while coix seed can not only eliminate edema in the body, but also make the skin fair and bright. Red beans and coix seed can drain water, and coix seed is often used as a traditional Chinese medicine. These two things are essential for slimming legs.

Ingredients: Job's tears, red beans, walnut kernels.

Method: Wash coix seeds and red beans, soak them in water for 4 hours and heat directly (the amount of water is about 3-4 times the amount of the ingredients. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat. Turn off the heat after 45 minutes, add honey for seasoning, and sprinkle with walnut kernels.

Carp and red bean soup

Efficacy: Carp has the effects of nourishing, strengthening the stomach, promoting diuresis and promoting lactation; red beans can nourish and strengthen, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and promote diuresis and remove dampness. Cooking carp with red beans can nourish the spleen and stomach, and promote diuresis and remove dampness.

Ingredients: 100 grams of red beans, 4 red dates, 1/4 tangerine peel, 1 carp (about 500 grams), 3 slices of ginger.

practice:

1. Wash and soak all ingredients, remove the core of red dates and the pulp of tangerine peel; clean and remove the impurities of carp, fry in a pan until slightly yellow, and sprinkle with a little water.

2. Put them together with ginger into a clay pot, add 2500 ml of water (10 bowls), boil over high heat, then simmer for 2 hours over low heat, add appropriate amount of salt. This amount is enough for 3-4 people.

Longan, jujube and red bean soup

Efficacy: Longan, jujube and red bean soup can promote diuresis and remove dampness, clear away heat and detoxify, nourish blood and spleen, nourish the heart and calm the mind, and has a very good nourishing effect.

Ingredients: 30 grams of dried longan, 50 grams of jujube, 150 grams of red beans, and 1500 grams of water.

practice:

1. Wash the red beans with clean water and soak them for 2 hours;

2. Remove the longan shell and keep the flesh for later use;

3. Boil the soaked red beans, jujubes and water;

4. Add longan;

5. After boiling again, simmer for 60 minutes.

Yellow Duck and Red Bean Soup

Efficacy: Yellow duck and red bean soup can provide the human body with rich nutrients, and has the effects of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling; it is used by the people to treat malnutrition edema; ordinary people can lose weight and keep fit by eating it.

Ingredients: 1 yellow duck, 30 grams of red beans, 30 grams of tangerine peel, 30 grams of peanuts, 100 grams of winter melon peel, cooking wine, salt, pepper, ginger slices, and scallion segments.

practice:

1. Remove impurities from red beans and wash them. Remove impurities from tangerine peel, wax gourd peel, and peanuts and wash them. Put tangerine peel and wax gourd peel into a gauze bag and tie it up.

2. Remove the feathers and internal organs of the wild duck, chop off its feet and claws, wash it, blanch it in a pot of boiling water, take it out, wash it, and cut it into pieces.

3. Heat the pan and stir-fry the duck, add onion, ginger, and cooking wine, and stir-fry until the water is dry. Pour in an appropriate amount of water, add salt, pepper, red beans, peanuts, and medicine bags, and cook until the meat is cooked. Pick out the medicine bags, onions, and ginger, and serve in a soup bowl.

Mango and Red Bean Soup

Efficacy: Red beans contain protein, fat, sugar, B vitamins, potassium, iron, phosphorus, etc. Red beans can promote the activation of cardiovascular and vascular systems and promote diuresis. People who are afraid of cold, have low blood pressure, and are easily tired can improve these discomforts by eating red beans regularly. In addition, red beans can also strengthen the stomach, promote body fluids, remove dampness and replenish qi, and are good medicinal and healthy foods. Red beans are also a good friend of women's health, and the rich iron content can make people look ruddy. Eating more red beans can also replenish blood, promote blood circulation, strengthen physical strength, and enhance resistance. Lactating women can promote the secretion of milk by eating more red beans.

Ingredients: 80 grams of red beans, 50 grams of glutinous rice flour, 1 mango, a little sugar.

practice:

1. Soak the red beans half a day in advance, soak them at noon and cook them at night;

2. Then put the rice cooker in and cook until soft;

3. Make doses of similar size;

4. One mango;

5. Dice the mango;

6. Boil the pot on the induction cooker and wait for the water to boil;

7. Add the glutinous rice balls after the water boils;

8. Cook until the dumplings float.

9. The red bean soup is ready;

10. Then put the rice dumplings and mangoes in the red bean soup.

Job's tears and red bean soup

Efficacy: This soup helps to beautify the skin, replenish qi and blood, and relieve swelling. It can strengthen the stomach and intestines, replenish blood, and also achieve the effect of promoting lactation.

Ingredients: 20 grams of raw coix seeds, 30 grams of red beans, and some rock sugar.

practice:

1. Wash and soak 20g of raw coix seeds and 30g of red beans for about half a day, drain and set aside;

2. Boil coix seeds in water until half soft, then add red beans and cook;

3. Add rock sugar, turn off the heat after it dissolves, and let it cool before eating;

Mushroom, pork ribs and red bean soup

Ingredients: 400 grams of pork ribs, 6 dried mushrooms, 200 grams of red beans, ginger, shallots, wine, and salt.

practice:

1. Soak dried shiitake mushrooms in cold water for 4 hours, tie the shallots into a knot, peel 2 small pieces of ginger and pound them loose with a knife;

2. Put the ribs into a casserole, add cold water, 1 piece of ginger, and wine, bring to a boil over high heat, discard any foam that comes out, and rinse the ribs clean;

3. Put the ribs back into the casserole, add cold water, 1 piece of ginger, scallion knot, wine, and red beans, cover, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for 1.5 hours;

4. Open the lid, add the mushrooms, bring to a boil and continue to simmer on low heat for half an hour, add salt, simmer for another 15 minutes, and finally sprinkle with chopped green onions.

Purple Sweet Potato and Red Bean Soup

Ingredients: 2 purple sweet potatoes, appropriate amount of red beans, appropriate amount of white sugar.

practice:

1. Prepare the ingredients: purple sweet potato, red beans, and sugar;

2. Wash the red beans and soak them for 2 hours in advance;

3. Wash the purple sweet potato, peel it and cut it into small pieces;

4. Add water to the pot, put in red beans, and cook over high heat;

5. When the red beans are cooked and bloom, pour in the purple sweet potato cubes;

6. When the purple sweet potato is cooked, add appropriate amount of white sugar and cook for a while.

effect:

1. Red beans can clear away heat and detoxify, strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote diuresis and reduce swelling, ventilate and relieve restlessness. It can treat symptoms such as difficulty urinating, spleen deficiency edema, and athlete's foot.

2. In addition to the nutrients of sweet potatoes, purple sweet potatoes are also rich in selenium and anthocyanins, which have very good anti-aging effects. Purple sweet potatoes are also rich in dietary fiber, which can cleanse the intestines, detoxify, prevent constipation, and cleanse the skin.

Heat-clearing and detoxifying red bean soup

Efficacy: Red bean tastes sweet, sour and slightly cold, and can invigorate the spleen and promote diuresis, detoxify and eliminate carbuncle, and eliminate dampness and heat. This soup can relieve summer heat, clear away heat, promote urination and invigorate the stomach, and benefit the liver, spleen and kidney.

Ingredients: 500g red beans, 200g white sugar (recommended: 5 servings)

practice:

1. Wash the red beans, add water and boil over high heat;

2. Simmer over low heat until tender, then add sugar and bring to a boil.

Red and green lily soup

Efficacy: Clears heat, whitens, and moisturizes the skin.

Ingredients: 20 grams each of mung beans, red beans, and lily, and appropriate amount of salt or sugar.

Preparation: Soak 20 grams each of mung beans, red beans and lilies for half an hour. Boil over high heat and then simmer until the beans are cooked. Add appropriate amount of salt or sugar. It can be eaten salty or sweet.

Red Bean Dehydration and Swelling Relief Soup

Efficacy: Helps to beautify the skin, replenish qi and blood, promote diuresis and reduce swelling.

Ingredients: 20 grams of raw coix seed, 30 grams of red beans, and rock sugar.

practice:

1. Wash and soak 20g of raw coix seed and 30g of red beans for about half a day, drain and set aside.

2. Add water to the coix seeds and cook until half soft. Add red beans and cook until done. Then add rock sugar and turn off the heat after it dissolves and is ready to eat.

Red Bean and Purple Rice Soup

Efficacy: Diuretic and detumescent, nourishing yin and kidney, promoting blood circulation and nourishing skin.

Ingredients: 20 grams of red beans, 20 grams of purple rice, and appropriate amount of honey.

Preparation: Wash 20 grams of red beans and 20 grams of purple rice and soak them overnight. Pour out the soaking water and add new water to cook. Then cook over low heat until cooked through. Add appropriate amount of honey when eating.

Lotus Seed Lily Red Bean Paste

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and kidneys, consolidates essence and replenishes Qi, strengthens tendons and bones, and enhances physical strength.

Ingredients: 50 grams of red beans, 30 grams of white lotus seeds, 10 grams of lily, appropriate amount of tangerine peel, and about 50 grams of rock sugar.

Method: Soak the washed red beans for two hours, boil water, add all the ingredients and simmer for two hours.

Medicinal value of red bean soup

The ingredients of red bean soup are different, and the effects are also different. Drinking red bean soup is one of the best ways to reduce edema. Red bean soup has many effects such as clearing away heat and detoxifying, strengthening the spleen and stomach, diuresis and reducing swelling, ventilating and relieving restlessness, nourishing blood and producing milk. It has good effects in treating enteritis, dysentery, diarrhea, as well as sores, carbuncles and boils.

1. Adzuki beans contain more saponins, which can stimulate the intestines, so they have a good diuretic effect, can relieve alcohol, detoxify, and are beneficial for heart disease, kidney disease, and edema;

2. Adzuki beans contain more dietary fiber, which has good effects on moistening the intestines and facilitating bowel movements, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and fighting cancer, preventing stones, and bodybuilding and weight loss;

3. Red beans are rich in folic acid. Postpartum women and nursing mothers can eat more red beans to promote lactation.