TCM experts recommend that people with poor stomach health eat more lotus root, as it has the effects of nourishing yin and stomach, nourishing blood, and stopping diarrhea. It can be ground into a powder and taken as a drink, or made into various delicious dishes. Here are seven common and delicious recipes.
Processing lotus root into lotus root powder is an excellent health food that is both nutritious and easy to digest. It has the effects of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, regulating the middle burner and stimulating the appetite.
The preparation method is very simple: First, slice the lotus root, including the skin. To speed up the drying process, you can steam it for 5 minutes first. Then, lay the lotus root slices flat on a clean cloth to dry in the sun. Once they are completely dry, place them in a mortar and grind them into a powder.
Stomach-Nourishing Lotus Root, Peanut, and Octopus Soup
400g lotus root, 150g peanuts, 100g dried octopus, 400g pork ribs, and appropriate seasonings. Wash the lotus root and cut it into pieces. Wash the dried octopus and soak it for 3-5 hours. Wash the peanuts and pork ribs and set aside. Bring water to a boil in a pot. Add all the prepared ingredients to the boiling water. Cook over high heat for 15 minutes, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 1-2 hours. Turn off the heat and season to taste. Eat the solids and drink the soup. This soup has the effects of moistening the lungs, stopping bleeding, and promoting urination.
Stomach-Nourishing Ginseng and Lotus Seed Soup
3g white ginseng, 15g lotus seeds. Soak them in water for 4 hours, then add 15g rock sugar. Steam and stew in a double boiler for 2 hours before eating. It is beneficial for patients with post-illness weakness, fatigue, spontaneous sweating, or diarrhea, as it tonifies Qi and strengthens the spleen, promoting physical recovery.
Stomach-Nourishing Gordon Euryale and Lotus Root Soup
60g Gordon Euryale seeds, 100g lotus root, 100g water chestnuts, and 20 red dates. Crush the first three ingredients, remove the pits from the red dates, add water, and cook into a paste. Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and serve. Take one dose daily. This soup nourishes the stomach and promotes body fluids, and is suitable for poor appetite, thirst, dry throat, constipation, and scanty, dark urine.
Stomach-Nourishing Lotus Root and Hawthorn Cake
500g fresh lotus root, 150g hawthorn cake, 25g osmanthus jam, and an appropriate amount of sugar. Peel the fresh lotus root, cook it in water until tender, then let it cool. Mash the hawthorn cake with a knife, mix with osmanthus jam and sugar. Stuff the mixture into the holes of the lotus root, slice it, and arrange on a plate to serve. It strengthens the spleen and stimulates the appetite, promotes the production of body fluids and quenches thirst, and lowers blood pressure and lipids. It is suitable for patients with chronic gastritis, chronic bronchitis, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.
Sugar Lotus Root Cake
250g lotus root powder, 250g glutinous rice flour, 250g sugar, and 60g peanuts. Mix with an appropriate amount of water, steam, cut into pieces, and consume in portions. It strengthens the spleen and benefits the stomach, and tonifies deficiency to stop bleeding. It is suitable for physical weakness, poor appetite, and syndromes of hematemesis, hematuria, or hemafecia.
Autumn Pear and White Lotus Root Juice
10 autumn pears (peeled and cored), 500g white lotus root (nodes removed). Crush and squeeze the juice. Drink freely as a tea substitute. It clears heat and moistens the lungs, and is suitable for lung-heat type cough with yellow phlegm, dry throat, and a parched tongue.