▎Clickthe blue text to follow us🌱Hello everyone!Today marks the Grain Rain season, the last solar term of spring. Besides drinking Grain Rain tea and eating Chinese toon, I want to talk about a delicious ingredient that is in season: **Sophora flower**. This flower is rich in nutrients, with a Vitamin C content ten times that of apples, and it has a sweet taste that is particularly delicious! Recently, there have been many methods online for making **Sophora flower pancakes**, **stir-fried eggs with Sophora flowers**, and **steamed Sophora flowers**, so I won’t repeat those. Today, I will teach you a few new innovative ways to eat Sophora flowers that are simple and tasty.
✅ **Sophora Flower Health Drink** 【Ingredients】: 100g fresh Sophora flowers, 15g goji berries, 5 red dates, 30g rock sugar, 5g honey, 1000g water.【Method】: Wash the Sophora flowers, goji berries, and red dates, place them in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Then add rock sugar and honey, stir well, and cook until the rock sugar is completely dissolved.
【Benefits】: This soup can clear heat, replenish moisture, and beautify the skin, making it especially suitable for drinking after staying up late.
✅ **Sophora Flower Lemon Honey Drink**
【Ingredients】: 300g fresh Sophora flowers, 150g rock sugar, 1500ml water, 1 lemon (optional), honey to taste (optional).
【Method】: Soak the fresh Sophora flowers in salt water for 15-20 minutes, wash and drain; place the processed Sophora flowers in a pot, add enough water to submerge them. Bring to a boil, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes until the color of the Sophora flowers lightens and the broth turns pale yellow, allowing the fragrance of the flowers to infuse into the water; filter the cooked Sophora flower broth. Depending on personal taste for sweetness and acidity, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, honey, and lemon juice to the Sophora flower broth; this enhances the sweet and sour flavor; the prepared Sophora flower broth tastes better when cooled.
【Benefits】: This drink can clear heat and moisten dryness, relieve throat dryness, and boost immunity.
✅ **Sophora Flower Rice**
【Ingredients】: 300g fresh Sophora flowers, 150g flour, salt, minced garlic, chopped green onions, vinegar, sweet chili, etc. to taste.
【Method】: Wash the Sophora flowers and drain; add flour, sweet chili, and salt, and mix well to coat each flower with flour, then steam in a pot for 15 minutes. After steaming, take out the Sophora flower rice and let it cool, then mix in minced garlic, vinegar, etc., and it’s ready to eat!
【Benefits】: This dish retains the nutrients of the Sophora flowers and is refreshing, making it especially suitable for summer.
🔥 Note:The above three delicious drinks are only suitable for daily tasting and health maintenance.
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