Soups to cool off on a hot day, good for health

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The article was professionally consulted by Dr. Phan Dinh Thuy Tien - General Internal Medicine - Department of Medical Examination & Internal Medicine - Vinmec Nha Trang International General Hospital.
The weather is in the peak season, causing fatigue and loss of appetite. A bowl of cooling soup can replenish the amount of water and electrolytes in the body.

1. Why does summer easily cause anorexia?

Vietnam is a tropical country, with the influence of the greenhouse effect, the summer is getting hotter and hotter. The amount of sweat released is large, so a lot of water and electrolytes are lost every day out of the body, especially after physical activity, exercise or just moving in the sun. Moreover, when the weather becomes hot, the skin is often prone to acne, heat rash, very uncomfortable rashes.
In addition to adding mineral water and summer cooling foods such as cooling teas, soft drinks, ice cream, tea,..., choosing to process cooling soups in the summer is the way to go. for the tray of rice to become more delicious, improve anorexia in hot days.

2. Summer soups

Water spinach with boiled water morning glory Water spinach is the most popular vegetable in the summer. Vegetables are sweet, cool, very easy to eat. In oriental medicine, water spinach has welding properties and has a good heat-clearing effect. In the summer, having a bowl of sour water spinach will bring a more delicious feeling. Water spinach soup with crocodile has long become a familiar dish in people's summer meals.
Mussel soup There are two soups that are most liked by Northern people in summer, which are soups from mussels and crabs. Not only nutritious, mussels also have a sweet and salty taste, cold properties, help clear heat, and are diuretics. From mussels, you can cook many different soups such as:
Mussel soup with vegetables. Mussel soup cooked with hot vegetables. Sour cooked mussels soup. Mussel soup cooked with long gourd. Crab soup To cook crab soup fastest and ensure the criteria to buy delicious field crabs, housewives should go to the market on weekends. Buy crabs to clean, remove bricks and divide into small portions, put them in the freezer. Whenever you want to eat, just take that bag of crab and pound or grind it will save a lot of time. Some delicious and cool soups from popular crab soup:
Crab soup cooked with spinach. Crab soup cooked with gourd. Crab soup cooked with melon. Crab soup cooked with heavenly flowers: The sweetness of crabs combined with the cool taste of Thien Ly flowers help you feel delicious. In addition, this is also a soup that has a sedative effect, helping to sleep well.

Clam soup The bowl of clam soup is nutritious, sweet and cool, a suitable dish for the family on hot days. Just simple processing, does not take too much time and effort, you have a bowl of cool sweet clam soup, easy to bring rice right on a sunny day. Clams can be combined with many types of vegetables into delicious soups such as:
Seaweed soup with clams Clam soup cooked with spinach Clam soup with young beans, tomatoes: Combined with strange young beans, it will make a steamed dish. more lead.
Gourd soup, melon soup cooked with dried shrimp Melon and long gourd are also two vegetables of summer days. They have a sweet taste, are neutral, have a light aroma, have a laxative effect, clear heat, and detoxify very well. Eating these two types of soup helps to reduce heat and significantly reduce sweet acne in hot weather.
In addition to cooking soup, it can also be combined with many other ingredients to make the soup more delicious, such as cooking gourd or gourd soup with shrimp, which is both cool and sweet, and nutritious.
Bitter gourd soup stuffed with meat Bitter melon has the highest vitamin C content in vegetables, it also has cooling properties, cooling and detoxifying properties. Dishes from bitter melon such as iced bitter melon, served with shrimp paste, bitter gourd soup stuffed with meat or shrimp are very suitable for this season.
To make the best and fastest soup, you can buy lean shoulder meat, mince it, mix it with shiitake mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, a little green onion, seasoning seeds, delicious fish sauce and pepper. You can marinate for a few hours before stuffing it into the melon so that the dish can absorb the spices.
When cooking, should boil water to drop bitter melon in to keep the green color of the melon. Heat over high heat and plenty of water.

Sour soup with mushrooms and minced meat: This is a nutritious, easy-to-eat dish that doesn't take too much time. A combination of ingredients such as minced meat (or bone broth), assorted mushrooms (shiitake, needles, seafood, long legs, swiftlet mushrooms), a medium-ripe pineapple, and a tomato. Moreover, it will create a taste that is both sweet and sour, fragrant with mushrooms that are very stimulating to the eye.
Sour carp cooked with bean sprouts: The dish has the sour taste of the batch, the sweetness of pineapple, the fat of fish, the aroma of dill, laksa leaves... suitable for hot summer days.

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