Daily Dish

Fu Ling Chicken Wontons

Ingredients:60g Fu Ling (Poria), 200g chicken, appropriate amounts of shiitake mushrooms, dried shrimp, chopped green onions, and ginger, and wonton wrappers.

Cooking Method:

Finely chop the chicken and mix it with shiitake mushrooms and dried shrimp, then wrap the mixture in wonton wrappers. Clean the ginger and Fu Ling, boil them to make a broth, strain out the solids, and cook the wontons in the broth. Finally, sprinkle with chopped green onions before serving.

Professor Yang Zhimin

Deputy Director of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yang Zhimin

Famous TCM Physician in Guangdong Province

Fu Ling, with a sweet and bland flavor, is neutral in nature and enters the Heart, Spleen, and Lung meridians. It contains poria acid, 13-poria sugar, ergosterol, proteins, fats, lecithin, potassium salts, etc. Its functions include promoting urination and leaching out dampness, benefiting the Spleen and Stomach, calming the mind, and settling the spirit. The “Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing” states it “mainly treats chest and flank counterflow of qi,” while the “Yao Xing Lun” records its ability to “open the appetite, stop vomiting, and calm the mind.”

Chicken, with a sweet and warm flavor, enters the Spleen and Stomach meridians. Its functions include warming the center and benefiting qi. The “Shi Liao Ben Cao” states it can “treat counterflow of qi,” while the “Bie Lu” records it as “mainly calming the five organs.” Paired with green onions and ginger, it not only enhances flavor but also has the effects of strengthening the Spleen and Stomach, replenishing qi, and reducing counterflow of qi, making it useful for treating elderly patients with insufficient qi, difficulty swallowing while eating, and symptoms of counterflow and hiccups due to Stomach qi deficiency.

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Editor | Kang Kang

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