When a woman lacks qi and blood, it shows on her face, making her appear tired, pale, and weak. No amount of makeup can conceal this. So how to replenish qi and blood? The editor sincerely recommends these nourishing soups and porridges; a few rounds are guaranteed to replenish a woman's qi and blood...
I. Nourishing Blood-Enriching Soups
1. Tremella and Red Date Soup
Tremella is also known as "the poor man's bird's nest." While bird's nest is nourishing, it is extremely expensive. Tremella is similar in color, texture, and effect but much cheaper. Furthermore, bird's nest is so potent it can easily cause "heatiness," whereas tremella has a cooling and moistening effect, making it more suitable for autumn consumption.
Wash the tremella, dried longan, goji berries, and red dates, place them in a pot with water and simmer to make a soup. Add rock sugar to taste before serving. This soup not only helps with breast enhancement but also gives your face a healthy, rosy glow and helps you achieve a light, slender figure.
2. Double Red Blood-Enriching Soup
500g of sweet potato, 10g of red dates, an appropriate amount of brown sugar, and 2000ml of water. Boil all ingredients together until the sweet potato is tender, then add brown sugar to taste. You can also substitute the sweet potato with pumpkin if you prefer.
3. Snow Pear and Pig's Trotter Soup with Soybeans
Drinking pear soup is very beneficial for women, as it can relieve coughs, moisten the lungs, and clear the mind for beautiful skin. Regular consumption of this snow pear, soybean, and pig's trotter soup has a noticeable effect on smoothing the skin, relieving hoarseness, and alleviating a dry mouth and tongue. It can also lower blood pressure and nourish while clearing heat, making it a great choice for autumn.
Ingredients: 1 snow pear, 50g soybeans, half a pig's trotter, 3 slices of ginger, salt
Method: Blanch the pig's trotter with ginger to remove any odor, then cut it into small pieces. Add the cored and cubed snow pear, soybeans, and another slice of ginger to a pot with plenty of water. Bring to a boil, then cook over high heat with the lid off for 15 minutes. Reduce the heat and simmer for 1 hour. Season with salt to taste before serving.
4. Beauty-Enhancing Papaya and Tremella Soup
Tremella, papaya, red dates, and rock sugar. Bring the soaked tremella to a boil in a pot, add the red dates and simmer on low heat for half an hour. Then, add rock sugar and papaya and bring back to a boil.
5. Angelica and Red Date Pork Rib Soup
1 pork rib, goji berries, 12 red dates, 4 slices of angelica. Wash the pork rib, blanch it to remove any odor, then place it in a clay pot. Add goji berries, red dates, angelica, scallion, and ginger slices. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer on low heat until the pork ribs are tender. Season with salt and chicken powder before serving. This soup can nourish yin, moisten dryness, and beautify the skin.
II. Blood-Enriching and Nourishing Porridges
1. Black Glutinous Rice Blood-Enriching Porridge
Black glutinous rice, longan, and red dates are all excellent blood-enriching ingredients. Adding highly nutritious yam significantly enhances the effect of replenishing qi and blood.
Wash the black glutinous rice, red dates, longan, yam, and other ingredients, then cook them in a pot. Add some brown sugar before serving. This porridge can replenish qi and blood and promote blood circulation. However, because it is not easily digested, it should not be consumed in excess each time. (Those with a "cold stomach" can add 2 slices of red ginseng).
2. Beauty-Enhancing and Blood-Enriching Oatmeal Porridge
First, soak the walnuts, red dates, and dried longan. Clean the oatmeal and put it in a rice cooker with an appropriate amount of water and start cooking. Remember to keep an eye on the time; once the porridge comes to a boil, switch to the porridge setting. Add some brown sugar before serving.
3. Red Date Porridge
Red dates are warm in nature and sweet in flavor. They contain protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, and abundant vitamins, making them extremely nutritious. There is a saying that "eating red dates daily keeps you young for a lifetime."
Ingredients: 100g rice, 50g red dates.
Method: First, wash the red dates and soak them in warm water for 20 minutes. Wash the rice, then place it in a pot with an appropriate amount of water and cook together with the red dates. Cook until the rice is soft and the porridge is thick. It is best taken daily in the morning and evening.
4. Savory Eight-Treasure Porridge
Everyone is familiar with sweet Eight-Treasure Porridge, but have you ever tried the savory version? Adding salt has different effects than adding sugar.
Main ingredients: 100g glutinous rice, 100g japonica rice, 600g bok choy, 400g pork ribs.
Side ingredients: 20g red beans, 20g cowpeas, 20g fava beans, 20g raw peanuts, 20g ginkgo nuts, 20g cooked chestnuts.
Seasonings: 5g salt, 2g MSG, 2g white pepper, 4g sesame oil, 6g vegetable oil.
Method:
1. Wash the glutinous rice and japonica rice. Soak the glutinous rice in cold water for 2 hours and the japonica rice for half an hour, then drain and set aside.
2. Wash the red beans, peanuts, cowpeas, and fava beans separately and soak them in cold water until they soften.
3. Wash the bok choy leaves and chop them. Wash the pork leg bones and chop them in half. Cook the ginkgo nuts until tender and set aside.
4. Add 3000ml of cold water to a large pot. Put the glutinous rice, japonica rice, red beans, cowpeas, fava beans, peanuts, and pork leg bones into the pot and bring to a boil over high heat.
5. Add the bok choy leaves and vegetable oil to the pot, season with salt. Bring to a boil over high heat for 5 minutes, then cook over low heat for half an hour. Remove the lid and continue cooking over low heat for 1 more hour.
6. Remove the pork ribs. Add the cooked ginkgo nuts, cooked chestnut bits, and MSG and stir well. Bring to a boil again, drizzle with sesame oil, and sprinkle with white pepper.
5. Rehmannia Root Porridge
Main ingredient: 40g glutinous rice
Side ingredients: 30g prepared rehmannia root, 10g dried tangerine peel
Method:
1. Wrap the prepared rehmannia root slices in gauze, add 500ml of water, and place them in a clay pot. Soak for a moment, then bring to a boil several times.
2. When the liquid turns a brownish-yellow and a medicinal aroma fills the air, reduce the heat to low. Add the japonica rice and dried tangerine peel powder and cook.
3. When the rice grains have blossomed and the porridge is of a thin consistency, remove the rehmannia root slices.