Why should glutinous rice be put in mung bean soup in Jiangnan?

It's a special food in Jiangnan, and it pays attention to the clarity of soup, so mung beans and glutinous rice should be steamed, not boiled. Both candied dates and raisins are optional. Generally, there is one candied date and two candied melon, and there are few dried tangerines and raisins, because the protagonists are mung beans and glutinous rice. If you don't have mint essential oil, you can use mint water, but the most authentic taste is mint essential oil.

Mung bean soup ingredients:

1. Ingredients: mung beans, glutinous rice and candied dates.

2. Accessories: wax gourd sugar, dried tangerine peel, raisins, red and green silk, white sugar and mint essential oil.

Efficacy indications:

1, heat-clearing: the heat-clearing function of mung beans lies in the skin, so don't cook mung bean soup for a long time in order to clear heat. The mung bean soup cooked in this way is green and clear. You don't need to eat beans together when drinking, which can achieve a good heat-clearing effect.

2, detoxification: the detoxification effect of mung beans, so in order to detoxify, it is best to cook mung beans when cooking mung bean soup. This kind of mung bean soup is turbid in color, which has a poor effect of relieving summer heat, but has a strong effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials.

3, summer heat: mung beans cooked with other foods, the effect is better. For example, mung bean honeysuckle soup: mung bean100g, honeysuckle 30g, decocted in water.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-glutinous rice mung bean soup.