Traditional Chinese Medicine Medicated Diet Recipe Book

Mung Bean and Kelp Sweet Soup (绿豆海带糖水)

Ingredients:

1. Hai dai (海带) kelp 50 g


2. Lu dou (绿豆) mung bean 200 g


3. Sheng jiang (生姜) fresh ginger 10 g


4. Bing tang (冰糖) crystal sugar: a specific amount

Cooking methods:

1. Soak the kelp in water for 60 minutes, rinse, and cut into small pieces.


2. Rinse the mung bean


3. Put the kelp, mung bean and ginger slices in a pot and add 4 liters of cold water.
   Bring to boil and then turn to medium heat. Cooking until ingredients are tender
   (around 60 minutes).


4. Add the sugar; stir until the sugar is dissolved.

Function:

1. Cold hot syndrome, clear away pathogenic heat and summer heat


2. Induce diuresis


3. Loss weight


4. Prevent hypertension, high cholesterol and coronary heart disease


5. Detoxification