American Ginseng, Not Too Hot, Fang Demonstrates Creative Cooking

As summer approaches, many people often go in and out of air-conditioned rooms from the hot outdoors, and as a result, they accidentally catch a cold. Summer is also the season when germs are most likely to multiply. If you want to enhance your immunity in this season, Chinese medicine practitioners remind you that you should eat cool supplements when it is hot, so you should also be careful when choosing ingredients to avoid making the wrong supplements and causing more heat. Chinese medicine practitioners recommend that suitable tonic foods for summer include American ginseng, chrysanthemum, cassia seed, lotus seed, white fungus and other cool tonic Chinese medicines.

American ginseng is mild, neither hot nor dry, and is suitable for tonic in all seasons. However, it is not suitable for breastfeeding mothers or emergency patients. (Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Ginseng Farmers Association)

Gourmet cooking expert Cai Jifang has designed four creative summer family dishes using American ginseng. American ginseng is neither spicy nor dry, making it suitable for tonic in all seasons. However, breastfeeding mothers and acute patients should not use American ginseng as a cooking ingredient.

Creative summer ginseng recipes for families:

1. American ginseng and fish noodles: Using American ginseng to cook fish soup can preserve the flavor of fresh fish and increase the nourishing effect of the fish soup. It is easy to cook in summer and is refreshing and not greasy.

2. American ginseng and yam pork rib soup: When cooking refreshing pork rib soup or chicken soup at home, in addition to mushrooms, bamboo shoots and yam, you can also add American ginseng from Wisconsin, USA, to increase the nourishing effect of the soup.

3. American Ginseng Fruit Honey Tea: American Ginseng from Wisconsin, USA is easy to brew. Office workers can brew it in a cup every day. They can also use the boiled ginseng tea soup and add fruit to flavor it to make fruit ginseng tea, or brew it with milk tea to make adult ginseng milk tea. It is delicious and has many variations.

4. American ginseng stewed with pears: American ginseng stewed with pears is a classic health-preserving stew. American pears are used instead of traditional pears, and then paired with American ginseng. The dish is steamed in an electric rice cooker. It is economical and has high health value.