How to make steamed pigeon with Gastrodia elata better?

Gastrodia elata is a common Chinese medicinal plant. It has the effects of relieving pain, invigorating qi and nourishing the liver. If it is steamed with young pigeon, the young pigeon can fully absorb its nutrients and exert its effects. When steaming pigeon with Gastrodia elata, you need to pay attention to the steaming time, and don’t let it be too long.

Effects of Gastrodia elata

Its rhizome is used as medicine, which is mild in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of dispelling wind and calming spasms, relieving pain and refreshing the mind, invigorating qi and nourishing the liver, and lowering blood pressure. It can also treat coma, convulsions, facial paralysis, neurasthenia, limb numbness, and infantile convulsions. If black chicken is stewed with Gastrodia elata, it is a famous medicinal food that can prolong life.

Gastrodia elata also has the effect of improving eyesight and significantly enhancing memory. Gastrodia elata has obvious protective and regulatory effects on the human brain nervous system and can enhance the resolution ability of the optic nerve. It has been used as a brain health food or brain health medicine for high-altitude flyers. Today, we will recommend a dietary therapy to mothers - pigeon stewed with Gastrodia elata.

How to cook pigeon with Tianma

Recipe Ingredients:

1 baby pigeon, 5 grams of Gastrodia elata, 10 grams of ham, 3 shallots, 1 small piece of ginger, 3 tablespoons of broth, 1 teaspoon of cooking wine, 1 teaspoon of fine salt, and MSG.

Preparation method:

1. Kill the pigeon, clean it, and blanch it in boiling water; slice the ham; wash and tie the green onions; wash and slice the ginger;

2. Put the pigeon, ham, gastrodia elata, broth, cooking wine, scallion knots and ginger into a bowl, steam it in a steamer for 2 hours, take it out, pick out the scallion and ginger, add salt and MSG to season.

Health Tips:

1. Features: delicious taste, can extinguish wind and stop convulsions.

2. This diet therapy is specifically used to treat diseases such as sepsis.