How to make yam, carrot and pork rib soup truly delicious
Yam, carrot and pork rib soup is a nourishing soup that everyone can often drink, and most of its nourishing benefits come from the yam and carrot. The method is a little more complicated than an ordinary clear-braised pork rib soup, but overall the recipe for carrot, yam and pork rib soup is still fairly simple. Below, let us take a look together at the recipe for yam, carrot and pork rib soup!
Ingredients for yam, carrot and pork rib soup
400 grams pork baby back ribs, 300 grams yam, 100 grams carrot, an appropriate amount of red dates, an appropriate amount of ginger, an appropriate amount of scallions.
The recipe for yam, carrot and pork rib soup
1. Soak the pork baby back ribs in clean water for 20 minutes to remove the blood, and scrape the skin off the yam and carrot with a small knife. Put cold water in a pot, add the ribs and bring to a boil; be sure to add them to cold water, otherwise the texture and taste of the meat will not be good.
2. Take out the ribs that have been blanched, cut the carrot and yam into chunks, smash the ginger, and put the ribs, yam, carrot, an appropriate amount of red dates and the smashed ginger together in a pressure cooker, then add water until it covers the ingredients.
3. Cover the pot and steam-cook for 30 minutes, then add an appropriate amount of salt and scallions and take it out of the pot.
The benefits of yam, carrot and pork rib soup
1. Carrot: Carrot is sweet in taste and neutral in nature, and enters the lung and spleen meridians. It has effects such as strengthening the spleen and aiding digestion, moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, killing parasites, moving qi and resolving stagnation, and improving eyesight. It mainly treats poor appetite, abdominal bloating, diarrhea, cough and wheezing with copious phlegm, and blurred vision.
2. Yam: Yam is sweet in taste and neutral in nature, and enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lungs, benefiting the stomach and tonifying the kidneys, and securing the kidneys and boosting essence. It is suitable for conditions such as weak spleen and stomach, fatigue and lack of strength, poor appetite, chronic diarrhea and chronic dysentery, lung qi deficiency and dryness, phlegm and wheezing with cough, kidney qi depletion, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, diabetes, and excessive thirst with frequent urination.
3. Pork ribs: Pork ribs are sweet and salty in taste and neutral in nature, and enter the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. They have the effects of tonifying the kidneys and nourishing blood, and nourishing yin and moistening dryness. They mainly treat conditions such as damage to body fluids from febrile disease, excessive thirst and emaciation, kidney deficiency and weak constitution, postpartum blood deficiency, dry cough, and constipation. Regular consumption can tonify deficiency, nourish yin, moisten dryness, nourish liver yin, moisturize the skin, promote urination and bowel movements, and relieve excessive thirst.