What are the methods of making chestnut chicken soup?

It is well known that chestnuts can nourish the kidneys and enhance the body's resistance. Chestnuts can also prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and are also helpful for oral ulcers. Chestnuts can be boiled or cooked with other ingredients to make soup. They are delicious and nutritious. Chestnuts contain starch, so it is best not to eat them raw, as abdominal bloating is inevitable. People with poor digestion, frequent constipation and diabetes should not eat chestnuts. What are the methods of making chestnut chicken soup? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Ingredients list

Half a chicken, appropriate amount of chestnuts, appropriate amount of red dates, and appropriate amount of wolfberries.

2. Cooking steps

1. Soak red dates and wolfberries in warm water for 5 minutes and set aside.

2. Soak chestnuts in hot water to remove the membrane.

3. Clean the chicken and cut it into pieces. Marinate it with cooking wine, boil it, remove the foam, and set aside.

4. Put chestnuts and chicken pieces into a stew pot, add appropriate amount of water and stew for 60 minutes.

5. The last step is to add salt to taste when the chicken and chestnuts are cooked and then serve.

3. Chestnut Benefits

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts have the effects of nourishing the stomach and spleen, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the waist, removing rheumatism, dispersing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and detoxifying.

1. Strengthen muscles and bones and delay aging. Chestnuts are rich in the mineral potassium, which can maintain the normal functions of teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles. They can prevent and treat osteoporosis, sore waist and legs, muscle pain, fatigue, etc. Chestnuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids and can effectively prevent and treat geriatric diseases and delay human aging.

2. Replenish Qi and nourish the kidneys, strengthen the stomach and intestines. Chestnuts are a type of dried fruit with a high sugar content. They can provide the human body with more heat energy, help with fat metabolism, and ensure the body's supply of basic nutrients.

3. Prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases. Chestnuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, multiple vitamins and inorganic salts, which can effectively prevent diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, and are beneficial to human health.

4. Treat vomiting blood and bloody stool. Eating chestnuts raw, 5 to 8 pieces a day, is suitable for people who suffer from vomiting blood or bloody stools.

5. Treat frequent urination. Chestnuts are beneficial for elderly people with kidney deficiency and frequent urination.

6. Treat oral sores and ulcers. Chestnuts contain vitamin B2. Eating chestnuts regularly is beneficial for children's mouth and tongue sores that are difficult to heal and adults' oral ulcers.

IV. Precautions

1. Chestnuts contain a high amount of starch, so eating them raw is difficult to digest and can cause bloating. Therefore, people with poor stomach, indigestion, frequent constipation, and diabetes should not eat it.

2. Whether chestnuts are eaten raw or cooked, they should be eaten in moderation and not too much.