How to make turtle stew

Everyone is very familiar with turtles. We all know that turtles are animals whose meat can be eaten. If they can be made into soup, the nutritional value of turtle soup is immeasurable. If you want to make turtle soup at home, many people don’t know how to make it. And it is often easy to have the problem that the food is not tasty. So after buying a turtle, if it is fresh and just killed, you can make soup.

What are the methods of making turtle stew?

How to cook turtle with Chinese yam (a dietary recipe for preventing and treating prickly heat)

Chinese yam stewed with turtle

Ingredients: 50g of wild yam, 1 turtle weighing about 500g, 250g of pork bones, 3 slices of ginger, 8 pieces of longan meat, and 2 to 3 candied dates. (4~5 people)

Chinese yam stewed with turtle

practice:

1. When you buy a turtle, kill it and cut it into pieces. Clean it when you get home. Wash and cut the pork bones into pieces. Put the two ingredients into boiling water and blanch them until foam comes out. Remove them and set aside.

2. Wash and soak the wild yam for a while, and remove the pits of the candied dates.

3. Put an appropriate amount of water in the clay pot and bring it to a boil. Add all the ingredients, bring to a boil and then simmer on low heat for 2.5 hours. Add salt to taste when drinking.

Chinese yam stewed with turtle

This soup is the most commonly cooked soup among the people in Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong, which is turtle stewed with Chinese yam. The two ingredients, one clearing and one nourishing, have the functions of nourishing yin, clearing heat, removing dampness and toxins. It has a good effect in preventing and alleviating prickly heat and carbuncle.

Chinese yam stewed with turtle

In addition to dietary therapy, prickly heat rash can also be treated by simply boiling honeysuckle or bitter melon with the core cut into pieces and bathing in water. The bath water must be boiled and cooled to a suitable temperature. Do not add cold water.

【Smilax glabra】(commonly known as hard rice head)

[Nature and flavor] Sweet and light in taste, slightly cool in nature.

[return through meridians] returns the liver, stomach and spleen meridians.

【Function】Detoxification, removal of dampness, and strengthening of tendons and bones. It is mainly used for damp-heat diarrhea, dysentery, pain in the limbs, damp-toxic skin sores, carbuncles, mercury poisoning, etc.

[Contraindications] Patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency should take with caution.

Fresh wild yam tastes better. If you don’t have it, you can use about 25 to 50 grams of dried product instead.

Wild yam and Poria cocos are two different Chinese medicinal materials: Poria cocos, also known as Yunling, mainly has the effects of calming the mind, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the heart; while wild yam has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, and benefiting the tendons and bones.

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【Function】Nourishes Yin and suppresses Yang, strengthens the kidneys and bones.

The best choice for medicine is the golden coin turtle, but it is expensive, so you can use the ordinary grass turtle to achieve the same effect.