Fresh Lotus Seed Stewed Pork Ribs

Lotus seeds are a food that many people like to eat. Lotus seeds are rich in nutrients, and many people use them to make a variety of foods, lotus seed stewed pork ribs is one of them. Pork ribs stewed with lotus seeds is very delicious. Of course, if you want to make delicious pork ribs stewed with lotus seeds, you still need to master certain methods and techniques. Next, I will introduce to you the method of making chain stewed spare ribs!

1. How to cook pork ribs stewed with lotus seeds

Prepare ingredients: 500g spare ribs, 150g lotus seeds without core, 1 piece of ginger

Slice the ginger and set aside; heat a pot of 1500 ml of water, add half of the ginger slices and a small dish of cooking wine, and after the pot boils, add the washed ribs and blanch for 2 minutes, remove and wash

Put the cleaned ribs and the remaining ginger slices into the inner pot of the electric pressure cooker

Add washed lotus seeds

Add enough water to cover the ingredients and a small dish of cooking wine; put it in the pot and select the "Meat Spare Ribs" mode.

After about an hour, you can add salt and serve. Sprinkle some chopped green onions on the dish to enhance the flavor.

2. Cooking skills

If you don’t have fresh lotus seeds, you can use dried ones. Soak them in water for 6 hours in advance.

When boiling the ribs, don't boil them for too long. Basically, you can take them out 30 seconds after boiling the water.

You can add chopped green onions or not, it all depends on personal taste. I like to add a little bit of it, so the taste is richer.

3. Food Characteristics

The spare ribs are soft, the lotus seeds are crispy and sticky, and the soup is delicious and mellow. Lotus seeds can clear the heart, replenish blood and qi, and the heart and kidneys, and eliminate cold and heat. Stewing them with pork ribs increases the nutritional value and has a complementary effect.

4. Nutritional Value

Nourishing, replenishing the body, stopping nocturnal emission and astringing spermatorrhea: The cottonseed sugar contained in lotus seeds is a tonic suitable for all ages. It is a common nutritional supplement for those who have been ill for a long time, those who have just given birth or are weak in the elderly. The alkali in lotus seeds has a calming effect. For young people who have frequent dreams, frequent nocturnal emission or spermatorrhea, taking lotus seeds has a good effect in stopping nocturnal emission and astringing spermatorrhea.

The ribs are sweet and salty in taste, and are neutral in nature. They enter the spleen, stomach, and kidney meridians; they tonify the kidney and nourish blood, nourish yin and moisten dryness; they are mainly used to treat damage to body fluid due to febrile disease, emaciation due to thirst, kidney deficiency and weakness, postpartum blood deficiency, dry cough, constipation, tonify deficiency, nourish yin, moisturize dryness, nourish liver yin, moisturize the skin, promote defecation and stop thirst.