Homemade healthy sweet soup in summer

As the weather is getting hotter, cooling off has become something that people cannot ignore. To cool off in the summer, sugar water is a good choice. So do you know how to make sugar water to cool down in the summer? Let's take a look below.

Barley jelly balls in syrup

Ingredients: 400 grams of jelly, 6 glutinous rice balls, 100 grams of coix seed, and 20 grams of honey.

Preparation method: Wash the coix seeds and soak them in advance for 11-2 hours; pour the coix seeds and 4 bowls of water into a pot and bring to a boil, then turn to medium heat and cook until the coix seeds are soft, add in small glutinous rice balls and cook until cooked and then turn off the heat; let the cooked glutinous rice balls cool slightly, add in jelly, cut into cubes with a small spoon, drizzle with honey, mix well and serve.

Efficacy: Clears heat and removes dampness.

Fresh lotus leaf, mung bean and lily light sweet soup

Ingredients: 200 grams of fresh lotus leaves, 1000 grams of mung beans, and 50 grams of lily.

Method: Wash everything, chop the fresh lotus leaves, and soak the mung beans until soft. First, put the lotus leaves in a clay pot, add 2000 ml of water, boil over high heat, then simmer for about 15 minutes. Remove the lotus leaves, add the mung beans and lilies, and continue to simmer for about half an hour, then add crystal sugar.

Efficacy: Lotus leaf Qianpin is a traditional Chinese medicine that clears away heat, relieves summer heat and promotes diuresis. Mung bean is glutinous, fragrant and refreshing, and can also clear away heat and detoxify. Lily is delicious and sweet, and can nourish the lungs and nourish yin. The three are combined into a sweet soup, which is fragrant and delicious, and has the functions of dispelling heat, promoting fluid production, nourishing yin and nourishing the lungs, clearing away heat and detoxifying. It is not only the best sweet soup during hot summer, but also a soup for auxiliary treatment of children's summer fever.

Red Bean and Sago Milk

Ingredients: 150 grams each of red beans, taro, and tapioca pearls, 1 cup of milk, 1 spoon each of cornstarch water and rock sugar.

Method: Wash the red beans, soak them in water for 8 hours, remove them, drain them, and steam them in a steamer. Peel the taro, wash them, cut them into pieces, boil the tapioca pearls in boiling water, remove them, soak them in cold water, pour the milk into the pot, add 2 cups of boiling water, boil them, add the taro and red beans, and cook them over low heat for 40 minutes, add the tapioca pearls and rock sugar, and finally add the cornstarch water to thicken the sauce.

Efficacy: It can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and it also has the effect of replenishing Qi and blood, enhancing liver function. It can also eliminate the symptoms of pale complexion caused by poor Qi and blood circulation, and help eliminate toxins and fat in the body.

Mung Bean and Winter Melon Dessert

Ingredients: 250g fresh winter melon, 75g mung beans, some brown sugar

Method: First wash the winter melon, peel and remove the seeds, cut the flesh into small strips, wash the dried mung beans, and remove the mung bean skins if conditions permit. Then put the prepared mung beans into a casserole, add water and boil. When the beans are about to be cooked into a bean-like consistency, add the chopped winter melon and continue to simmer for 20 minutes, then add appropriate amount of brown sugar for seasoning.

Efficacy: Fresh winter melon is sweet and light in nature, and can clear away heat and relieve summer heat; dried mung beans are sweet and cool in nature, and can cool down and detoxify, eliminate summer heat and promote diuresis; brown sugar is sweet and can detoxify and moisturize. The combination of these three foods can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, eliminate restlessness and quench thirst, but also be sweet and delicious.

Barley, mung bean and tangerine peel syrup

Ingredients: 50g rice, 50g mung beans, 1 jiao of tangerine peel, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Preparation method: First soak the mung beans and coix seeds in cold water for 4-5 hours, then take out the soaked mung beans and coix seeds and put them into water and boil them over high heat, then turn to low heat and cook slowly. When the mung beans and coix seeds are almost cooked, add tangerine peel, and finally add rock sugar to taste and serve.

Efficacy: Remi mung bean and tangerine peel syrup has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, regulating qi, strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis. It is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite, edema and puffiness in summer.

Osmanthus Sour Plum Soup

Ingredients: 250g dried black plum, 250g mountain plant, 100g osmanthus, 100g licorice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar or brown sugar.

Method: Soak dried black plums and hawthorns in water, wrap osmanthus, licorice, soaked black plums and hawthorns with gauze, fill a large pot with water, put the gauze bag in, and boil over high heat. After boiling, add appropriate amount of rock sugar or brown sugar, simmer over low heat for two to three hours, and serve when half of the water is boiled away.

Efficacy: Sour plum is warm in nature and sour in taste. Drinking sour plum soup during the hot summer is not only sweet and sour, but also can relieve heat and invigorate qi, and can also help stimulate appetite and replenish water.

Winter melon and water chestnut soup

Ingredients: 1 pound of old winter melon, 3 ounces of raw water chestnuts, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

Preparation method: First wash the old winter melon and cut it into large pieces. Add the washed raw water chestnuts and put them into a clay pot and cook for one hour. Then add brown sugar and wait for drinking.

Efficacy: Old winter melon is sweet and slightly cold, and can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, promote the production of body fluids and quench thirst. Raw elm seeds can promote dampness, and brown sugar can clear away heat and promote the production of body fluids. When used together, they can relieve summer heat, clear away heat, and remove summer dampness.