6 Excellent Nourishing Soups for Spring Equinox Wellness.

As spring arrives, it's time to adjust your wellness routine to the season. For spring equinox wellness, drinking more soups can help you shake off spring fatigue and dryness! Spring soups shouldn't be too greasy or overly heating. Here are 6 recommended nourishing soups; drink a different one each day to protect your health!

Mixed Mushroom Soup

Assorted Mushroom Soup

Mushroom soup is a top choice for wellness. A bowl of mushroom soup in the slightly chilly early spring or the freezing cold of midwinter warms the body and nourishes the skin. Moreover, mushroom soup is very easy to make, making it the first choice for all "lazy homebodies" with cravings.

Ingredients:

50g each of Boletus, Nameko mushrooms, and Small white mushrooms, 100g of Shiitake mushrooms, 4g salt, 1g pepper, 5g ginger slices, 500g stock

Method:

1. Wash all ingredients and blanch in boiling water for later use.

2. Bring the stock in a pot to a boil, add ginger slices and the assorted mushrooms, and simmer for 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and simmer until the flavors are infused.

Yam and Pork Stomach Soup

Stewed Pork Stomach with Yam

Stewed pork stomach with yam is a delicious dish. Yam is nourishing and strengthening, aids digestion, while pork stomach is effective for treating fatigue, diarrhea, thirst, frequent urination, and malnutrition in children.

Ingredients: 150g pork stomach, 100g dried yam

Method:

1. Clean the pork stomach, cut it into strips or small pieces, and boil, then simmer over low heat until cooked.

2. Peel, wash, and slice or section the yam, add it to the cooked pork stomach and simmer until tender.

Lily and Scallop Winter Melon Soup

Winter Melon and Scallop Soup

Winter melon and scallop soup is a Sichuan dish with medicinal value, known for its diuretic, swelling-reducing, stomach-clearing, and fire-reducing properties. This dish has a clear, crystal-like appearance, a good taste that is not astringent, light, and smooth, with the chewiness and aftertaste of scallops.

Ingredients: Free-range chicken leg, winter melon, scallops, ginger

Method:

1. Chop the free-range chicken leg into pieces and wash (choose free-range chicken for its lower fat content).

2. Peel the winter melon, remove the seeds, wash, and cut into cubes or scoop into balls with a tool.

3. Bring 5 bowls of water to a boil in a cooking pot, add the chicken pieces, skim off the foam, add winter melon and ginger, and cook until the chicken is thoroughly cooked.

4. Wash the scallops, add them to step 3, and cook for a moment longer. Add seasonings; if there is oil on the surface, skim it off first.

Lily and Pig's Trotter Soup

Pig's trotters are high in collagen and calcium, which helps strengthen bones and improve skin elasticity. The vitamin C in chestnuts, combined with the protein rich in pig's trotters, can promote collagen synthesis in the body and increase skin elasticity.

Ingredients: 100g lily, 1 pig's trotter, 3g salt, 2g MSG, 15g starch water, 10g sesame oil

Method:

1. Clean the pig's trotter after removing the hair, chop into pieces, and wash the lily.

2. Blanch the pig's trotter pieces in boiling water to remove blood.

3. Add the pig's trotter and lily with an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat for 1 hour, then add seasonings.

4. Prep time: 10 minutes, Cooking time: 70 minutes.

Bean Curd Skin and Mushroom Soup

Shiitake and Bean Curd Skin with Lean Pork Soup

Bean curd skin contains various minerals that help supplement calcium, which is beneficial for bone development and maintaining bone health. It is also rich in iron that is easily absorbed by the body, playing a certain role in preventing and alleviating iron-deficiency anemia.

Ingredients: Shiitake mushrooms, bean curd skin, salt, cooking wine, chopped green onions

Method:

1. Soak shiitake mushrooms and bean curd skin in water until soft, then wash and cut into thin strips.

2. Add stock to a soup pot, then add bean curd skin and mushrooms.

3. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.

4. Add an appropriate amount of salt.

5. Add cooking wine, cover, and cook over high heat for 2 minutes.

6. Uncover, add an appropriate amount of chicken powder to season, then turn off the heat.

7. Ladle into a bowl, sprinkle with chopped green onions, and serve.

Abalone and Tremella Soup

Abalone is rich in protein and contains significant amounts of calcium, iron, iodine, and vitamin A. Abalone shell is also a traditional Chinese medicine known as "Shi Jue Ming," which has the effects of improving eyesight, clearing heat, and calming the liver.

Ingredients: Fresh natural abalone, natural black fungus.

Method:

1. Wash the abalone and place it in a soup bowl.

2. Top with rinsed and soaked black fungus, shredded carrots, and lean pork cubes. Pour in boiling stock.

3. Season with fish sauce, MSG, rice wine, and sesame oil.

4. Steam in a steamer over high heat for twenty minutes.

5. Transfer to a pot and boil over high heat until ready to serve.