Duck stewed with mushrooms

Duck stewed with shiitake mushrooms is also a famous home-cooked dish in my country. Its soup is very rich and mellow, and it tastes fat and tender. The duck meat is soft and refreshing, and the nutritional value is also relatively high. I didn’t know that shiitake mushrooms are the second largest edible fungi in the world. It contains a lot of nutrients, and it is very effective in preventing and fighting cancer and improving immunity. Duck is a cool meat and has good nourishing effects.

Duck stewed with mushrooms

Material

350g old duck, 50g mushrooms, 50g hawthorn, 10g ginger, 1000g water

Seasoning

5g salt, 3g chicken powder, 1g sugar, 1g pepper

Method

1. Chop the old duck into pieces and blanch them in water, soak the mushrooms and remove the stems, slice the ginger, and wash the hawthorns for later use.

2. Put a clean pot on fire, add old duck, mushrooms, ginger slices, and hawthorn, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 50 minutes and season.

Dish Introduction

Old duck and mushroom soup is nutritious and delicious. The fat content in duck meat is moderate, lower than that in pork, is easy to digest, and is distributed evenly throughout the body's tissues. It contains high levels of trace elements such as iron, copper, and zinc. Old duck meat tastes sweet and slightly salty, and is cool in nature. It enters the spleen, stomach, lung and kidney meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, nourishing yin and reducing fire, nourishing yin and replenishing deficiency, stopping bleeding and dysentery, and promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.

effect

Hawthorn is sour and warm in nature. It can treat meat stagnation, blood stasis, amenorrhea, postpartum congestion, hyperlipidemia and other symptoms.

Old duck nourishes yin and the stomach, promotes diuresis and reduces swelling, strengthens the spleen and replenishes deficiency. It contains carbohydrates, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, as well as nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron.

The efficacy and function of duck meat

1. Most of the food that ducks eat is aquatic organisms, so their meat is sweet and cold in nature, and enters the lung, stomach, and kidney meridians. It has the effects of greatly replenishing deficiency and fatigue, nourishing the yin of the five internal organs, clearing away deficiency and fatigue heat, replenishing blood and promoting water circulation, nourishing the stomach and producing body fluid, relieving cough and spontaneous shock, eliminating snail accumulation, clearing away heat and strengthening the spleen, and treating weakness and edema. It can treat physical weakness, physical weakness after illness, and edema caused by malnutrition.

2. Drake meat is slightly cold, while hen meat is slightly warm. The best ones for medicinal use are old and white, or white with black bones. Stewing an old and fat duck with sea cucumber has great nourishing effects. The stewed duck juice is good for replenishing the yin of the five internal organs and the heat of tuberculosis.

3. Duck meat and kelp stewed together can soften blood vessels, lower blood pressure, and have a good effect on senile arteriosclerosis, hypertension, and heart disease;

4. Stewing duck meat and bamboo shoots together can treat hemorrhoid bleeding in the elderly. Therefore, people believe that duck is a "holy medicine for replenishing the body". Fat ducks can also treat senile pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes, spleen deficiency edema, chronic bronchitis, dry stools, chronic nephritis, and edema; male ducks can treat pulmonary tuberculosis and diabetes.