Should I use cold or hot water to make soup?

When making soup, you need to use hot water. Many people will use cold water directly in the pot, but the cold water needs to be preheated, which is not good for the ingredients. Using hot water can directly retain the original flavor of the ingredients in boiling water, and there is no need to worry about destroying the nutrition of the ingredients. Therefore, it is more suitable for drinking soup. Making soup in winter and spring can regulate the body and prevent severe cold.

Hong Kong-style soup - Shenling Baizhu Jianpi soup Ingredients 8 chicken feet, 4 liang lean meat, 3 candied dates, half a cup of coix seeds, half a cup of lentils, half a cup of lotus seeds, appropriate amounts of Baizhu, Poria, and Codonopsis

Method: Simply wash the medicinal materials.

Wash the chicken feet and lean meat and blanch them to remove impurities.

Put eight cups of cold water in a stew pot, add the medicinal materials, blanched lean meat and chicken feet, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for one and a half hours, and add salt to taste before serving.

Ingredients for Spring Bamboo Shoots and Hericium Mushroom Soup Spring bamboo shoots (hairy bamboo shoots) ., Hericium erinaceus ., Shiitake mushroom (dried) ., Cashew nuts (raw) ., Sea salt.

Step 1: Slice spring bamboo shoots, dice Hericium erinaceus, cut shiitake mushrooms in half, and put all raw cashews into a soup pot, add water and bring to a boil, cover the pot and simmer for 40 minutes, add sea salt to taste

2. Don’t lift the lid of the pot during cooking.