How to make chicken soup the most nutritious? Stewed chicken
Chicken soup is delicious and nutritious, but how to stew chicken soup is learned. Here are some tips for stewing chicken soup.Many people liked stewed chicken soup for nourishment, especially the old hen soup, which was famous for its delicious taste. The effect of "tonifying deficiency" was also known. Chicken soup could also relieve cold symptoms and improve the body's immune function.
Chicken soup should not be salted first
If salt is added to the chicken stew first, it will directly affect the taste, characteristics and nutrient preservation of the chicken and chicken soup.
This is because chicken contains a high moisture content, some as high as 65% to 90%. Salt has a dehydrating effect. If salt is added first during stewing, the chicken will be soaked in salt water and salty soup, and the cell water in the tissue will penetrate outward, the protein will be solidified, and the chicken tissue will shrink and tighten significantly, which will affect the dissolution of nutrients into the soup, hinder the concentration and quality of the soup, and make the stewed chicken hard and old, and the soup will have no fragrance.
Therefore, the correct way to add salt when stewing chicken is to cool the stewed chicken soup to 80-90 degrees, and then add an appropriate amount of salt, so that the chicken soup and meat taste the best.
Tips for making chicken soup
1. The pot is straight, and it cannot be cooked in a cooking pot.
2. After the fire comes to a boil, simmer on low heat. Don't boil the pot and see. Fill it up at one time with ingredients, and do not add water in the middle.
3. You can add ginseng whiskers to freshen up, wolfberry adds color, and red dates are tonic.
People who should not drink chicken soup
1. Hypertension: Hypertensive patients drink chicken soup, which not only causes arteriosclerosis, but also causes blood pressure to continue to rise, making it difficult to lower.
2. Hyperlipidemia: After the fat in chicken soup is absorbed, it will further increase cholesterol. Excessive cholesterol can deposit in the intima of blood vessels and cause coronary arteriosclerosis and other diseases.
3. Renal insufficiency: Chicken soup contains some small molecule proteins. Patients with acute nephritis, acute and chronic renal insufficiency, or uremia cannot process protein breakdown products in a timely manner due to the patient's kidney and liver. Drinking too much chicken soup can cause hyperazemia and aggravate the condition.
4. Excessive stomach acid: Chicken soup has the effect of stimulating gastric acid secretion. Therefore, patients with gastric ulcers, excessive stomach acid or gastric bleeding should generally not drink chicken soup.
5. Biliary tract diseases: Cholecystitis and cholelithiasis often occur, so it is not advisable to drink more chicken soup, because the digestion of fat in chicken soup requires bile to participate. After drinking chicken soup, it will stimulate gallbladder contraction and easily cause cholecystitis attacks.
