Stewed Pork Bones with Winter Melon, Barley, Carrots

Overview

The weather in Guangdong is easy to get hot and humid, so you should often drink soup to remove the dampness. Winter melon is cold in nature and sweet in taste, clears away heat and promotes body fluids, relieves summer heat and troubles, while barley has the functions of diuretic and swelling, invigorating the spleen and removing dampness, relaxing the muscles and removing paralysis, clearing away heat and draining pus. Winter melon and barley soup clears away heat and relieves summer heat, strengthens the spleen and diuresis. It has certain curative effect on children with excessive prickly heat, damp and hot bladder, and less and yellow urine. To achieve the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat when making soup with winter melon, you have to cook it with the skin on. Peeling the winter melon may lose its intended effect.

Tags

• soups
• barley
• pork bones
• winter melon
• carrot
• ginger

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the pork bones, blanch them, remove and set aside, wash and cut the winter melon into pieces, peel the carrots, wash and cut them into pieces, wash and soak the barley for a while. 3 slices of ginger.

   

2. 2 Put all the ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil over high heat, then turn down to low heat and simmer for an hour and a half.

   

3. 3 After half an hour, add salt to taste.