CHINESE COOLING TEA

In last few days, I've been blogging about motivational quotes which I hope it will help you to stay motivated and move ahead with your life.

So now, I'm back to blog on food again. To wrap up the topic on soup, I would like to share with you recipe on chinese cooling tea. Fast & easy!!!

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Chrysanthemum Flower Chinese Tea is one of the most common Chinese cooling tea in Malaysia. The drink which is refreshing helps to clear the lungs, sinus congestion, eye irritation, reduce heartiness and detoxifies the blood. There are two types of chrysanthemum i.e white chrysanthemum to sooth the eyes and yellow chrysanthemum for clearing sinus. You can drink this tea on a regular basis. Best to drink when it's served with ice during hot weather.

INGREDIENTS

Dried Chrysanthemum Flowers, Rock Sugar & Chinese Wolf berries (optional)

METHOD
1. Put all ingredients (except rock sugar) into a cooking pot. Pour in enough water to cover the pot. Let it boil for 10-15 minutes in slow fire .

2. When it is boil, add in rock sugar and leave it for 5 minutes till sugar dissolve.

A cup of refreshing & cooling tea

SWEET CORN & CARROT SOUP

If you don't have appetite, drinking soup is a good alternative to get your nutrients and calories. Chinese soup ingredients like carrot and sweet corn or potato provide excellent source of carbohydrates while chicken or pork provide proteins

INGREDIENTS
sweet corn, carrot, pork/chicken, dried red dates & dried scallop


METHOD

Put all ingredients in a slow cooker and leave it to simmer for 3 hours.

RM2.50 SOUP WITH
CARBOHYDRATE & PROTEIN
serves 1-2 person

FISH AND GLASS NOODLES SOUP

In this recipe, instead of using chicken or pork, I used 'Malong' fish to make a good nutritious and light clear soup. The fish seller told me if we regularly consume this soup, our blood are cleanse and thus resulted with a more radiant skin.


People on diet or sick can relieve their hunger pangs by eating this good nutritious soups which contains more nutrients for more energy.

"Be extreme careful when eating this fish because it have lots and lots of bones."

INGREDIENT

2-3 pieces of 'Malong' fish, glass noodles, chopped parsley

china salted vegetables, slices of ginger, garlic, wolfberries & garlic oil (optional)


METHOD

1. Put water in a pot and let it boil.


2. When the water is boiled, put in all the ingredients except chopped parsley.
   Let it simmer for about 30 mins.


3. Add salt to taste.


4. Scoop out in a bowl and garnish with chopped parsley and garlic oil.


5. Serve hot.


RM3 SOUP FOR A RADIANT SKIN
serves 2 person

WATER CRESS SOUP

CURE FOR SYMPTOMS OF INFLUENZA H1N1

In Chinese homes, soups are usually boiled using one whole chicken ('retired' chicken or farm chicken) or pork ribs/lean meat to produce sweet and flavoring taste. One trick to get rid of unpleasant smell is to boil the chicken cutlet or pork for about 10 minutes and skim off fat and foam from the surfaces of soups. Repeat this a couple of times until none or little foam appears. This trick produced a crystal clear soups.

My mom said "making a pot of good soup can tie a man's heart".... do you believe?

This recipe using water cress are good in cleansing/detoxify our lungs and toxins in haled from polluted air or from smokers. This “cooling” effect soup is suitable when you have symptoms of sore throat, flu and etc.

This soup is easy to make without complicated cooking techniques. Boiled using a slow cooker or a pot for at least 3 hours (min) or 4 hours (max) in order to produce a nutritious and healthy soup.

INGREDIENTS

two chicken drumsticks, water cress & red dates

METHOD

1. Put all ingredients in a pot or slow cooker.

2. Pour enough water to cover all the ingredients.

3. Leave it to boil and remove foams that is floating on the soup.

4. Reduce the heat to low and allow the soup to simmer for about 3-4 hours.

5. Add salt to taste.

HEALTHY & CHEAP @ RM2 ONLY!!!

serves 2 person

INFLUENZA A(H1N1)

SWINE FLU VIRUS/INFLUENZA A(H1N1)

In Malaysia, the swine flu virus or A(H1N1) are widely spread across the country. According to the flu count statistics http://www.flucount.org/, Malaysia have 4225 cases with 67 or 1.59% death rate. The 'locally transmitted 'virus had caused death especially to the young children. Few schools had been closed for weeks following dead case reported to prevent the virus spread to the rest of the students in the affected school. To understand more about this virus , log into http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/4/28/nation/20090428132524&sec=nation.

Even though the number of death cases is relatively small, Malaysians are advised to take precautionary steps to help stop the spread of the virus i.e seek immediate medical treatment if one have mild influenza symptoms and wear a three ply mask if they need to go out, avoid crowded area such as shopping malls, theater, market & etc, wash hand before eating and etc.

In Malaysia especially the Chinese home maker, good food are the key to excellent health. They do believe that drinking lots of plain water and taking fruits especially oranges and green apples do help to alleviate the infection. Consuming nutritious and cooling soup will help to clear all the 'viruses' inhaled throughout the day. In short, our body are cleanse thoroughly after drinking the soup.

Since I was having slight flu and cough (not caused by the virus confirmed by my doctor) , my mom have advised me to cook the soups (very easy) which I'm going to share the recipes with all of you in my coming blogs. You can drink this soup anytime time especially during lunch or dinner with a plate of hot rice.

STAY TUNE FOR MY RECIPES!!!