Mung bean soup is a traditional drink that has the effects of cooling and relieving heat, clearing heat and detoxifying. On a hot summer day, a bowl of mung bean soup can effectively relieve the unbearable heat and bring you a touch of coolness. Below, let's take a closer look at how to make a delicious bowl of mung bean soup.
1. Prepare materials
The main ingredients needed to make mung bean soup are: mung beans, water, rock sugar or sugar. In addition, in order to increase the taste and nutrition, you can also add some other ingredients according to your personal taste, such as red dates, lilies, lotus seeds, etc.
2. Clean the mung beans.
First, wash the mung beans to remove impurities and sand grains. There are several ways to wash mung beans, which can be washed with running water or soaked in clean water. After washing, drain the mung beans and set aside.
3. Boil mung beans
1.Add an appropriate amount of water to a pot and bring to a boil over high heat.
2.Put the cleaned mung beans in a pot and bring to a boil over high heat.
3.Once boiling, reduce the heat and continue to cook for about 10 minutes. During this process, you can gently stir with a spoon to evenly heat the mung beans.
4.After 10 minutes, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar or white sugar according to personal taste, and stir well.
5.Continue to cook for about 10 minutes until the mung beans are cooked and the soup thickens.
4. Precautions
1.Don't add too much water when boiling mung beans so as not to dilute the taste.
2.The boiling time of mung beans should be adjusted according to the heat and pot to ensure that the mung beans are cooked well and the soup is thick.
3.If you prefer a richer mung bean soup, you can add some other ingredients such as red dates, lilies, etc., but pay attention to the cooking time of the ingredients.
4.Do not add alkaline substances such as baking soda when cooking mung bean soup, so as not to destroy the nutrients in mung beans.
With the above steps, you can easily make a delicious bowl of mung bean soup. In the scorching summer, a bowl of cool mung bean soup can not only relieve the unbearable feeling of heat, but also clear away heat and detoxify, moisten the lungs and relieve cough. At the same time, mung bean soup is also rich in a variety of nutrients, such as protein, vitamin B group, minerals, etc., which has high nutritional value.