The benefits of rock sugar bird's nest and the recipe of rock sugar bird's nest

　　Rock sugar bird's nest is a good product for nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness in autumn. It has the effects of nourishing lungs and nourishing yin, relieving cough and stopping bleeding. It is often used for tuberculosis, hemoptysis, bronchitis, emphysema and other diseases. Elderly and frail people take this soup to benefit qi and strengthen the body.

　　How to make rock sugar bird’s nest 1:

　　Recipe ingredients: 250 grams of water-fat bird's nest, 25 grams of sweet cherries, and 250 grams of rock sugar.

　　How to make rock sugar bird’s nest:

　　1. Place the blanched bird's nest in a small basin (soak the dry bird's nest in clean water for three to four hours and then remove the hair. After removing the impurities, soak it in boiling water for a while, take it out and soak it in cold water for four hours. Finally, boil it in a boiling water pot for a while and pick it up. After brewing with warm water, decant the original juice, then brew with warm boiling water and decant the original juice). Slice sweet cherries.；

　　2. Add 500 grams of rock sugar to water into the pot, cook over low heat until the saccharified juice becomes sticky, filter out impurities with gauze, then pour 150 grams of pure sugar juice into a small bowl of bird's nest, decant the sugar juice, then pour the remaining pure sugar juice into the bird's nest, steam it in a basket over high heat for five minutes, take it out, and sprinkle with cherry slices.

　　How to make rock sugar bird’s nest 2:

　　Recipe ingredients: 3 grams of bird's nest, 6 grams of wolfberry, 6 grams of longan meat, 30 grams of rock sugar.

　　Recipe method: 1. Soak the bird's nest in water, remove the bird's feathers with tweezers, tear it into strips, and wash the wolfberry and longan meat.；

　　2. Pour the bird's nest, wolfberry, longan meat and 1 bowl of boiling water into the stew pot, cover the stew pot, and simmer over water.；

　　3. After the water in the pot boils, simmer over medium heat for 1 hour, then add rock sugar and simmer over low heat for 1 hour.；

　　4. After simmering, take it out and warm it before eating.

　　healthy Tip: Rock sugar bird's nest, also called honey bird's nest, is a high-end nourishing supplement. Bird's nest has the effects of replenishing deficiency, strengthening the body, moistening dryness, and nourishing yin. Rock sugar can replenish qi, harmonize the stomach, moisten the lungs, stop vomiting and reduce phlegm. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Use it to replenish deficiency and fatigue, cough and vomit red phlegm, and cook with rock sugar, and the effect will often be achieved." If the two flavors are combined, it has the effects of nourishing the lungs and nourishing yin, relieving cough and stopping bleeding. It is often used for tuberculosis, hemoptysis, bronchitis, emphysema and other diseases. The elderly and infirm people take this soup to benefit qi and strengthen the body. The soup is sweet and thick, and the bird's nest is soft and tender. It is the first dish for high-end banquets. Nutrient calories contained in the nourishing medicated diet rock sugar bird's nest (119.10 kcal) ·Carbohydrates (29.79g) ·Thiamine (0.01mg) ·Riboflavin (0.01mg) ·Calcium (6.90mg) ·Sodium (0.81mg) ·Magnesium (0.60mg) ·Iron (0.42mg) ·Zinc (0.06mg) ·Copper (0.01 mg) ·Potassium (0.30 mg)

　　Recipe 3 for rock sugar bird’s nest:

　　Recipe ingredients: 50 grams of bird's nest, 30 grams of rock sugar.

　　Production process:

　　1. Wash the dried bird’s nest after swelling.；

　　2. Put the bird's nest in a pot, pour water, add rock sugar, dissolve it, skim off the foam, put the bird's nest in the pot, blanch it briefly, and put it in a soup bowl.；

　　3. Continue to boil the soup in the pot, then pour it into the soup bowl.

　　Effects of rock sugar bird's nest

　　Bird's nest, a nest made of saliva by swiftlets unique to Southeast Asia. The nests of golden swiftlets are completely different from those built by other swallows. The biggest difference is that they are edible and have therapeutic uses.

　　After swallowing small fish and seaweed in the sea, the swiftlets turn into saliva and spit it out in about forty minutes. These colloidal swiftlet saliva contain a large amount of minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, and various nutrients such as protein, sugar, arginine, and cystine. Therefore, bird's nests are extremely nutritious.

　　Chinese people have eaten bird's nests for a long time, and the evaluation of the benefits of bird's nests to human health has long been discussed. For example, "Herbal Medicine" mentioned that "bird's nests are sweet, light, and flat." It nourishes lung yin, resolves phlegm and relieves cough. It is tonifying and can eliminate the disease. It is a holy music for regulating the deficiency. All diseases caused by lung deficiency and unable to clear out the downward movement can be cured by this method. ”It can be seen that bird's nests can not only be used as salty and sweet delicacies, but can also be used for medicinal purposes. If you stew bird's nest with rock sugar and add wild American ginseng, which can nourish qi, promote body fluids, nourish yin and clear away heat, the effect of nourishing and refreshing, moistening the lungs and nourishing the skin will be even better.