White Fungus and Pear Soup (雪耳，雪梨糖水)
Ingredients:
- Xue er (雪耳) white wood ear, white fungus 30 g
- Xue Li (雪梨) pear 2
- hong zao (红枣) Chinese red date 10
- Wu hua guo (无花果) fig 2
- Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 10 g
- Bing tang (冰糖) crystal sugar: a specific amount
Cooking methods:
- Rinse the white fungus, trim and soak in water for 30 minutes
- Rinse figs and cut into 2 pieces of each
- rinse the pear and cut into small pieces
- rinse the red date
- Put white fungus, red dates, figs and ginger slices in a pot and add 2 liters of cold water.
Bring to boil and then turn to medium heat. Cooking until ingredients are tender (around
30 minutes). - Put in pear and boil for another 15 minutes
- Add the crystal sugar; stir until the sugar is dissolved.
Function:
- Nourishes stomach yin and generates body fluids
- Nourishes lung yin
- Promote the production of body fluid, Moistens dryness
- Clear away pathogenic heat and relieve phlegm
- prevention and treatment of restlessness and thirst due to impairment of body fluid
caused by febrile diseases, diabetes - Relieve heat type cough
- Relieve dysphagia and constipation
- Antioxidant, anti-aged