How to make sea cucumber soup?

Sea cucumber is a common seafood in daily life. It has a good warming and tonic effect on the human body. Therefore, many pregnant women, postpartum women or patients with weak bodies especially like to make sea cucumber soup for food tonic. In fact, if you want to make the sea cucumber soup more delicious, you must add some mushrooms and dried shrimps to match it.

1. Ingredients

Main ingredients: 126g sea cucumber, 26g mushroom, 10g dried shrimp; auxiliary ingredients: appropriate amount of oil, salt, chicken powder, fan bone soup

2. Steps

1. Soak the dried mushrooms until soft.

2. Soak the dried shrimps in clean water for 10 minutes and wash them.

3. Put the sea cucumber into the soup pot.

4. Add the soaked mushrooms.

5. Add dried shrimp.

6. Cover the pot and bring to boil over high heat.

7. Turn to low heat and simmer for about 2 hours.

8. Remove the lid and add appropriate amount of chicken powder.

9. Add appropriate amount of salt, bring to boil, and turn off the heat.

Tips

[Tips for soaking dried mushrooms]

Put a little white sugar in a bowl, add appropriate amount of warm water, mix well and put in the dried mushrooms. They will be soaked in a short while.

3. Nutritional value of sea cucumber

The nutritional value of sea cucumbers is high. Every 100 grams of water-soaked sea cucumbers contains 14.9 grams of protein, 0.9 grams of fat, 0.4 grams of carbohydrates, 357 milligrams of calcium, 12 milligrams of phosphorus, 2.4 milligrams of iron, as well as vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, etc. Sea cucumbers are extremely low in cholesterol and are a typical high-protein, low-fat, low-cholesterol food. In addition, its meat is tender and easy to digest, so it is very suitable for consumption by the elderly, children and people with weak constitutions.

Sea cucumber is not only a delicacy at banquets, but also a precious tonic for the human body, and its medicinal value is also high. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sea cucumbers are "sweet, salty, warm, and can nourish the kidneys and replenish essence, strengthen yang and cure impotence"; "Sui Xi Ju Diet" says: Sea cucumbers can "nourish yin and blood, strengthen yang and moisten dryness, regulate menstruation, nourish the fetus, and facilitate delivery." It can be seen that sea cucumbers have the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, strengthening sperm and strengthening yang. Patients with long-term weakness, tuberculosis, loss of essence and blood, and symptoms such as dizziness, tinnitus, low back pain, fatigue, nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, and frequent urination can use sea cucumbers as a nourishing food therapy. In addition, because sea cucumbers, like other seafood such as kelp and seaweed, contain a certain amount of iodine, they can also promote metabolism and blood circulation. Therefore, it is extremely suitable for patients with hypertension and can treat impotence, spermatorrhea and other symptoms. For the treatment of hypertension, vascular sclerosis, and coronary heart disease, 30 grams of sea cucumber can be added to an appropriate amount of water and stewed, then an appropriate amount of rock sugar can be added and stewed for a while. After the rock sugar is dissolved, take it on an empty stomach before breakfast. For the treatment of impotence, spermatorrhea, and frequent urination, 30 grams each of sea cucumber and dog meat can be sliced ​​and boiled into soup. After adding ginger and salt to season, eat the ginseng and meat and drink the soup.