Winter Melon Coix Seed Pork Rib Soup
Release time : 03/07/2026 09:30:04
In the sweltering summer, if you've grown tired of bitter gourd and pork soup, why not try this light and refreshing冬瓜薏米排骨汤? The preparation for this dish is straightforward. Simply prepare the pork ribs, winter melon, and adzuki beans in advance, wash them and cut them into pieces, then soak the adzuki beans for 2 hours until soft.
Next, blanch the spare ribs and then cook them with coix seed in a pot until they are almost done. Then add the winter melon.
The benefits and nutritional value of Winter Melon, Coix seed and Pork Ribs Soup are very high, suitable for summer consumption. It can quench thirst, clear heat, relieve summer heat and supplement calcium, especially suitable for people with old age or children. However, pregnant women should avoid consuming it.
Ingredients for the Job's Ear and Coix Seed Pork Soup: 500g pork ribs, 50g coix seeds, 3 slices of ginger, 30g winter melon, 30g dried seaweed. Preparation method: 1. Boil the pork ribs, soak and steam the dried seaweed in advance, cut the winter melon into large chunks, wash and clean the coix seeds. 2. Add an appropriate amount of water to a casserole and bring it to a boil over high heat. Skim off any floating impurities. 3. Add pre-washed, sliced ginger to the casserole, ensuring it is thinly sliced. 4. Add washed and soaked coix seeds to the casserole and cook for 1 hour. If the coix seeds are still not soft enough, continue to cook. 5. Add the winter melon to the casserole and cook for another 30 minutes. Winter melon should be cut into large chunks and peeling is not recommended as it can affect its flavor. 6. Add the seaweed and continue to cook for another 30 minutes. Seaweed can be cut into small squares for easier eating, but if cut too finely, nutrients will be lost. This Job's Ear and Coix Seed Pork Soup contains coix seeds that have the benefits of promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, strengthening the spleen and dispelling dampness, and are especially beneficial for those who feel constantly tired and lack energy.
Kelp can lower blood pressure and sugar levels, and promote metabolism.
Pork ribs can strengthen the waist and knees, benefit the strength, nourish weakness, and fortify the bones and muscles.
In the late summer and early autumn, why not enjoy a bowl of soup that's both nourishing and light on the stomach, while also being beneficial for beauty and skin health?
Tip 1: Don't peel the winter melon; it will have a better effect on promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.
2. If you like it, you can also add a little goji berries.
3. To make the soup delicious, you should start with the ribs in cold water.
Winter Melon Coix Seed Pork Ribs Soup, ingredients: 400g winter melon, 500g pork ribs, 100g coix seeds, salt to taste, chicken of the seaweed to taste, butter to taste.
Preparation Method: 1. Clean the winter melon, remove the skin and seeds, cut into pieces, but do not cut too small as it is easy to overcook. 2. Clean the pork ribs, chop them into small pieces. 3. Soak the coix seed (薏米) for at least an hour in advance, this makes it easier to cook. 4. Blanch the ribs in boiling water, then rinse off any blood stains and add them to a pot with an appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil, skimming off any foam. 5. Add yellow wine, cover and simmer for about 20 minutes. 6. Add the coix seed and winter melon, continue cooking for about 1 hour until the soup turns slightly milky white. Then add the winter melon. 7. After the winter melon is cooked through, season with salt and chicken essence. Ingredients for Gourd and Coix Seed Ribs Soup: 300g ribs, 100g bitter gourd, 50g coix seed, salt to taste, oil for frying, one piece of ginger, one star anise. Preparation Method: 1. Cut the ribs into small pieces and clean them thoroughly. 2. Peel the ginger and slice it, wash the star anise. 3. Soak the coix seed in water for 2 hours so that it can easily cook. 4. Cut the bitter gourd into small pieces. 5. Blanch the ribs in cold water, place them in a pot, add a piece of ginger and a star anise, and add an appropriate amount of cooking wine to blanche them. 6. Blanch the ribs until they turn red, then remove them from the water and rinse them clean. 7. Put the cleaned ribs, ginger slices, and coix seed together into a casserole with an adequate amount of water and bring to a boil over high heat, then switch to low heat and simmer for 1-2 hours. 8. Once the ribs are cooked, add the bitter gourd pieces and a suitable amount of salt, then continue to simmer for another 20-30 minutes.
2. The pentadecanedioic acid in the winter melon can effectively inhibit the transformation of sugar into fat, and the winter melon itself does not contain fat and has a low caloric content, which is significant for preventing obesity and helping to maintain a healthy physique.
3. It has the effects of clearing heat, relieving summer heat, moisturizing lungs and generating fluids, resolving phlegm to quench thirst, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, clearing heat and dispelling summer dampness, detoxifying and draining pus.
It is also used for symptoms such as excessive thirst due to heat, phlegm-heat cough and asthma, edema, athlete's foot, bloating, diabetes, acne, facial blemishes, hemorrhoids, and hemorrhoids. It can also detoxify fish and alcohol.
Cooling and generating fluids, excluding heat and alleviating irritability are particularly suitable for consumption in summer.
II. Benefits and Effects of Job's Tea Bean: Job's Tea Bean is rich in various vitamins and minerals, which can promote metabolism and reduce gastrointestinal burden. It can be used as a tonic food for patients with illness or after illness.
2. Continuous consumption of foods made from Job's tears has been found to be effective in treating conditions such as chronic enteritis and indigestion.
Job's tears can enhance renal function and have the effects of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, so they are also effective for patients with edema.
3. Modern pharmacological research has proven that Job's tears have anticancer effects, and the active components of which include selenium, can effectively inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells. It is used as auxiliary treatment for gastric cancer and cervical cancer.
4. Regular consumption of Job's tears by healthy individuals can enhance physical vitality and reduce the risk of tumor development.
5. Job's tears contain certain vitamins E, and is a cosmetic food. Consuming it regularly can keep the skin of the human body shiny and delicate, eliminate acne, pigment spots, improve the color of the skin, and it also has a certain therapeutic effect on warts caused by viral infections.
6. Job's Tears, which are rich in Vitamin B, are very beneficial for the prevention and treatment of neurasthenia.
III. Benefits of Pork Ribs Pork ribs not only contain protein, fat and vitamins but also a large amount of calcium phosphate, collagen and mucoid protein, which can provide calcium to children and the elderly.
Pork ribs are highly nutritious and have the benefits of nourishing yin, strengthening yang, enriching essence, and invigorating blood.
Adding scallions and the appropriate seasonings to a pot of soup before cooking makes it incredibly delicious and nutrient-dense.
Pork ribs stewed in soup are cool and cooling, can strengthen the loins and knees, benefit strength, nourish deficiency, and fortify the muscles.
Consuming it by people with spleen and stomach deficiency cold, poor digestion will easily cause gastrointestinal distension or diarrhea, so it should be added to bone soup with ginger or pepper.
The powder made from charred pig bone is warm in nature and has the effects of stopping diarrhea, strengthening the stomach, and replenishing the bones.
After removing the meat from the pig, the remaining ribs and spinal bones are still attached to a small amount of meat.
Porcine rib meat provides essential high-quality protein and fat for human physiological activities, especially rich in calcium to maintain bone health.
Boneless pork contains not only proteins and fats, but also a large amount of calcium phosphate, collagen, mucoid protein etc. It can provide calcium to children and the old.
Precautions for consuming Wheat Germ and Coconut Chicken Soup: 1. In terms of dampness in the human body, excessive dampness can harm the kidneys and is best counteracted by consuming more winter melon.
When there is excessive heat, one should avoid heart-affecting foods and instead consume more bitter gourd.
2. In winter, stewing pork claws, pork ribs, and chicken with Job's tears is a nourishing food, while in summer, boiling Job's tears in rice or cold drinks (iced job's tears) is an excellent detoxifying and fitness-enhancing tonic.
3. If you feed your baby formula at home, it's recommended that you boil some mung beans water every week to mix with the formula for its main function of removing dampness and reducing fire.
4. This soup should be light and bland to preserve its original flavor.
5. After adding the winter melon to this soup, it should be simmered on low heat to prevent it from becoming overcooked and mushy.
6. This soup is light and refreshing, with the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness, lowering blood lipids and blood pressure, and facilitating urination.
Winter melon and coix seed pork soup is a delicious and healthy dish that not only tastes great but also has excellent diuretic effects. Therefore, it is very popular among people. However, in order to prepare a delicious winter melon and coix seed pork soup, we must carefully select the ingredients. Let's take a look at how to choose winter melon, coix seed, and pork for this recipe.
1. Purchasing Winter Melon: Winter melon is a commonly consumed ingredient, typically available in the three types of green skin, black skin, and white skin. The black-skinned winter melon has thick flesh and more edible parts, while the white-skinned variety has thinner meat and a softer texture that easily absorbs flavors. The green-skinned winter melon falls between these two categories, and it is recommended that you choose black-skinned winter melon for soup preparation.
When purchasing, press the flesh of the winter melon with your finger. Choose the ones with compact flesh; best to eat winter melon in July or August.
2. When purchasing Job's Tears, choose those with a glossy surface and plump grains. Such Job's Tears are more mature and naturally have better nutritional value.
Additionally, yellowish or white, or even pure white koji rice is preferable. A uniform and even color is ideal.
The taste of Job's tears is usually sweet or slightly sweet, so you can also choose the good Job's tears by tasting it.
3. When selecting pork ribs, it is advisable to choose those that are bright red in color and not too red or white. You can press on the ribs to see if the meat reverts quickly; this indicates freshness.
One can also smell the aroma, but if it is slightly fishy, it's normal. But if there is an odor or even a foul smell, it means that it has gone bad and you should definitely not buy it.
Can a baby drink winter melon and adzuki bean pork soup? After adding solid foods at 6 months, babies can drink winter melon and adzuki bean pork soup, but the quantity should not be too much.
Additionally, Job's tears are difficult to cook and have a tough texture, so it is recommended that when preparing soup for babies, you should make them softer and easier to digest by cooking the Job's tears longer.
You can just drink the soup.
Among them, pork ribs can provide the body with essential high-quality proteins and fats, especially rich in calcium, which can maintain bone health.
Bone-in pork is rich in protein, fat, vitamins and also a lot of calcium, collagen, proteoglycan and so on. It can provide calcium to children and the elderly.
Therefore, this soup is beneficial for enhancing calcium intake in babies. Winter melon also has a cooling effect, and it can promote urination and relieve constipation when the weather is hot and dry.
Job's tears are commonly used as traditional Chinese medicine and a common food. Its nature is sweet and slightly cold, benefiting the body by promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, relaxing tendons and alleviating rheumatism, and clearing heat and draining pus. It is a common diuretic.
Job's tears are also a type of beauty food. Consuming it can keep the skin of the human body glossy and delicate, eliminate acne, freckles, senile spots, pregnancy spots, butterfly spots, and have a good effect on desquamation, acne, cracking, rough skin, etc.
Job's tears (Job's tears) is rich in vitamins and minerals, which can promote metabolism and reduce gastrointestinal burden. It can be used as a nourishing food for patients with illness or after recovery.
Consumption of foods containing Job's tears regularly is also effective in treating chronic enteritis, maldigestion and other conditions.
Job's tears can enhance renal function and have a purgative and diuretic effect, so they also have therapeutic effects on patients with edema.
Job's tears have a role in cancer prevention, with its active components including selenium, which can effectively inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells. It can be used as an auxiliary treatment for gastric and cervical cancer.
Healthy people often eat Job's tears to make their body lighter, reduce the probability of tumor.
Job's tears contain a certain amount of vitamin E, which is an appetizing food. Consuming it can keep the skin of the human body luster and fine, eliminate acne, pigmentation and other spots, improve color tone, and also has a certain treatment effect on mollusk warts caused by virus infection.
Job's tears are rich in vitamin B, which is very beneficial for the prevention and treatment of beriberi.
Is there any need to drink Wheat Grass and Coconut Chicken Soup for pregnant women? Pregnant women should not drink it.
Since Job's tears are sweet, light, and slightly cold in nature, they should not be consumed during pregnancy as they can cause miscarriage.
Additionally, winter melon is also a food that cools heat and relieves summer heat, and it has a certain coldness. It is not suitable for pregnant women to consume.
However, pork ribs are rich in calcium and protein. Consuming them during pregnancy can enhance the baby's bones and overall health.
So, pregnant mothers might as well make up some other bone-in soup.
Job's tears are sweet, light and slightly cool in nature, and belong to the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians.
It has the effects of strengthening the spleen, promoting diuresis, clearing dampness and swelling, clearing heat and draining pus, and purifying damp-heat.
It can be used to treat diarrhea, spastic contractions and limited range of motion of the tendons and nerves, edema, asthenia, intestinal abscesses, pyuria, leukorrhea, etc.
Suitable for cancer patients, arthritis, chronic nephritis edema, ascites due to cancer, facial swelling and limb edema, tinea pedis, eczema, cosmetic purposes, flat warts in young people, common warts, contagious molluscum contagiosum, acne vulgaris, and for skin that is nutritionally deficient and rough. Suitable for consumption by those with lung deficiency and lung abscess.
Based on previous experience, it is advisable to avoid consuming certain foods during the early stages of pregnancy.
Additionally, those with scanty sweating and constipation should avoid consuming it.
Pregnant women are suitable to drink corn rib soup.
Pork ribs contain not only proteins and fats and vitamins, but also a large amount of calcium phosphorus and collagen and gelatin, which can provide calcium for pregnant women.
The benefits of consuming corn and pork soup for pregnant women: Corn and pork soup is a nourishing soup made from corn and pork, mainly cooked by simmering.
Corn can reduce the blood cholesterol level and prevent its deposition in the blood vessel walls.
Its nutritional value is extremely high, with the functions of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach, and preventing cancer.
Pregnant women should eat foods that can lower blood cholesterol levels and prevent them from depositing in the arteries, which are rich in nutrients.
Cherries are good for spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and generating fluids, moistening the lungs and heart. When used with boneless pork, they can stimulate appetite and benefit spleen and stomach while also moisturizing the lungs and nourishing the heart.
During pregnancy, consuming bone soup or rib soup with bones has a good nourishing effect.
Corn rib soup is a simple and easy-to-make dish that is commonly served at home. It can not only stimulate appetite and benefit the spleen but also nourish the lungs and heart. Consuming it regularly can help improve the complexion of pregnant women.
Pregnant women should be cautious when consuming corn and pork soup: Before taking dietary supplements, it is essential to understand one's own constitution. This approach ensures targeted treatment, thereby enhancing absorption.
If the constitution is predominantly hot, it is advisable to avoid excessive nourishment as it can easily lead to heat intolerance and damage to yin energy.
The medical information provided in this text is for reference only.
Should you experience discomfort, it is recommended to seek medical attention immediately. The diagnosis and treatment provided by a physician in person are the standard.