After the Ming Dynasty, the folk custom will have the habit of eating turnips at the beginning of the Spring Festival. It is recorded in "A Brief Record of Drinking Mango and Eating Well" that "by the spring equinox the next day, all people, high and low, will eat turnips and say 'bite spring'." It is spring after the spring equinox, and a bowl of turnips and pork belly soup is strongly recommended here. The key role of turnip and pork belly soup is to help digestion.
Raw materials: 750g radish, 3g pepper, 1 pig belly, 100g pork lean meat, and a large piece of ginger (3-4 people flow).
Cooking method: peel, clean and cut radish into pieces. Clean the pig belly, scrape off the white film, rotate and wipe it with cheese powder repeatedly, and then blanch it after cleaning. Clean, slice and blanch raw pork. Add 2000ml water to the soup pot, add all the raw materials, simmer for 15 minutes, then simmer for 45 minutes, add a small amount of edible salt seasoning, eat porridge and eat dregs. The pig tripe can be cut into small strips, which can be dipped in soy sauce or cooked with other melons and vegetables.
This soup uses turnips that are easy to buy and easy to store. The turnips are cool in nature, helping digestion, warming the yang, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and facilitating urination. White radish has a "spicy" feeling when eaten raw, which is related to the mustard oil it contains. It is also the mustard oil that promotes the peristalsis of intestines, stomach and intestines, has the effect of helping digestion and warming yang, and is more suitable for diseases such as decreased appetite, stomach pain, constipation, etc.
But the radish is cool. The effect of radish poria cocos after boiling soup changes from cool to good, and the long boiled radish becomes loose, which is easier to digest, but it is also very easy to absorb vegetable oil in the soup, so it is necessary to choose meat with less body fat for soup.
In addition, Ma pepper is added to the soup, which is combined with the pig's belly, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, and make up the deficiency. It also improves the effect of nourishing the intestines and stomach. If you are not used to the taste of pepper, you can replace pepper with black pepper.
For this soup, people who are prone to gastric distention and poor appetite can often drink it.
