How to make pig lung delicious and simple

Everyone has eaten pork, but fewer people may have eaten pig lungs. In fact, pig lung is a particularly delicious dish. It is the respiratory organ of the pig and is suitable for stewing, cold mixing and braising. The general stewed lungs and braised lungs are all referring to pig lungs. At the same time, pig lungs have high nutritional value. They contain protein and fat, as well as various vitamins and trace elements, which can meet the nutritional needs of the human body. So in addition to these, what other delicious ways are there to cook pig lungs?

Nutritional Information

Pig lungs contain a large amount of nutrients necessary for the human body, including protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, niacin, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, etc.

Medicinal properties

Pig lungs are sweet and slightly cold, and have the effects of relieving cough, replenishing deficiency and nourishing the lungs.

Pig lung

Related Discussions

"Sui Xi Ju Diet" says: Pig's internal organs are only used to guide the meridians for various diseases, and ordinary people don't need to eat them. Not only are the intestines and stomach filthy and disgusting, but the lungs are full of saliva and the heart has dead blood. It is not easy to clean them and it is also difficult to cook them.

"Compendium of Materia Medica": Pig lungs, nourish the lungs.

"Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats cough and cough with blood due to lung deficiency.

"Sui Xi Ju Diet": sweet and mild, nourishes the lungs, and stops weak coughs. Treat pulmonary tuberculosis, hemoptysis, and upper digestion syndrome.

Production Guidance

Different ways to cook pig lungs

According to the theory of TCM that internal organs are used to nourish internal organs, diseases of lung deficiency, such as atelectasis and tuberculosis, can be treated with the method of "Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment":

To treat cough due to lung deficiency: take a pig lung, slice it, fry it with sesame oil, and eat it with porridge.

To treat cough with blood and lung damage: grind coix seed into fine powder, boil pig lung, and eat it with white dip.

Dietary effects

Pig lungs are sweet in taste, neutral in nature, and enter the lung meridian;

Nourish the lungs and relieve cough.

Dietary value

Take the pig's lungs, pour water through the trachea or cut into pieces and wash.

It tastes sweet, is neutral in nature, and has the effect of nourishing the lungs and moistening dryness. Used for long-term cough, shortness of breath or coughing up blood due to lung deficiency. To treat cough, you can cook porridge with white radish; to treat cough with blood, you can boil the lungs, dip them in white radish and coix seed powder and eat them, or you can stew them with appropriate medicines.

Nutritional value of pig lungs:

Pig lungs are sweet in taste, neutral in nature, and enter the lung meridian. Pig lungs have the effects of replenishing deficiency, relieving cough and stopping bleeding. They are suitable for lung deficiency cough, long-term cough and coughing up blood. Pig lungs contain protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins (B1, B2), niacin, etc.

Suitable for people

It is suitable for the general population, especially for those with long-term cough due to lung deficiency, tuberculosis, and pulmonary emphysema with hemoptysis.

People who are not suitable to eat pig lungs: People with constipation and hemorrhoids should not eat too much.

Dietary prescription

①To treat cough due to lung deficiency: cut a pig lung into slices, stir-fry with sesame oil, and eat with porridge. (Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment)

② Treat chronic cough caused by wind and cold: stew pig lung and ephedra root together and drink the soup. (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records)

③Treat cough with blood and lung damage: Grind coix seed into fine powder, boil pig lung, and eat it with white dip. (Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment)

④To treat vomiting blood: one bowl each of pear juice, lotus root juice, radish juice, human milk, and urine of children, and one pig lung (do not put it into water, fill it with urine of children). Fry until two and a half bowls of juice remain, stir-fry rice flour and make into pills. Take five cents each time. (Pork Lung Pills from Health Treasure)

Food pairing

Affordable food

Pig lungs added with pears, dried cabbage and dried sword flowers have the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs.

Pig lungs with Adenophora sibiricum, Polygonatum odoratum, lily, almond, fig, monk fruit and Tremella fuciformis have the effects of nourishing yin, promoting body fluid, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.

Incompatible foods

Do not eat pig lungs with cauliflower and malt sugar, as it will cause abdominal pain and vomiting.

Pig lung

Pig lung

Precautions

Pig lungs are part of the pig's internal organs and contain a large number of bacteria. They must be cleaned and fresh lungs must be selected for cooking.

How to buy

When purchasing pig lungs, look for fresh lungs that have a pink, shiny, uniform, and elastic surface. The color of spoiled lung is brown-green or grayish white, has a strange smell, and cannot be eaten. If there is any abnormal appearance such as edema, air masses, nodules or pus-like masses in the lungs, it should not be eaten.

Cleaning method

1. Place the pig's lung trachea toward the tap and fill it with water. After the lung expands, squeeze it with your hands to squeeze the water out through the small trachea. Repeat several times.

2. Slice the pig lungs, add a little flour and water, rub them repeatedly with your hands to remove the attachments on the pig lungs, and then rinse with clean water;

3. Pour clean water to cover the pig lung slices, then add appropriate amount of white vinegar and soak for 15 minutes to remove the fishy smell and sterilize;

4. Boil water, put in the pig lung slices and cook for 5 minutes to force out the internal organs of the lungs.