Steps to make monk fruit and lily chicken soup

Everyone knows that monk fruit is a traditional Chinese medicine, but do you know monk fruit and lily chicken soup ? Let me introduce it to you.

Lily and monk fruit are both good medicine and food

lily

There are many varieties, and Taihu lily is the best medicine. It has a nourishing effect on the body and is known as the "Taihu ginseng". Lily is not only delicious, but also nutritious and has high medicinal value. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that lily can moisten the lungs and relieve coughs, calm the mind and soothe the nerves, and replenish the middle and benefit the qi. Chinese medicine believes that lily can nourish the heart and lungs. People with lung deficiency cough, dry cough without phlegm, or dryness and cold cough are suitable to eat lily. Monk fruit tastes sweet and cool in nature. It belongs to the lung and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving coughs, benefiting the liver and spleen, and lowering blood. It also has the effects of preventing and treating respiratory infections and anti-cancer. If it is used for intestinal dryness and heat and constipation, in addition to using this product alone, it can also be combined with Sterculia lychnophora and boiled in water.

Monk fruit and lily chicken soup

Monk Fruit

Mature monk fruit is rich in sugar and tastes sweet. The dried fruit is delicious and sweet and rich in glucose. In daily life, this fruit can be used as a seasoning for soup and meat. Half of it can be added to meat and broth for seasoning, and its taste is naturally sweet and meaningful.

When choosing monk fruit, you should pick one that is large and round, yellow-brown in color, does not make sounds when shaken, has a shell that is not broken or cracked, and tastes sweet but not bitter.

Monk fruit and lily chicken soup

300g chicken, half a monk fruit, 30g dried lily, 6 red dates, onion, ginger, salt

Monk fruit and lily chicken soup recipe

1. Chop the chicken into pieces, blanch it in hot water to remove the blood foam, then remove and set aside.

2. Wash monk fruit, lily and red dates separately and set aside.

3. Put the chicken pieces, monk fruit, lily, red dates, onion and shredded ginger into a soup pot and add appropriate amount of water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours. Add salt to taste when drinking.

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Monk fruit is rich in sugar and tastes sweet. Put half, or 1 to 4 of it in the soup.