Flora Sea Bird Nest Jelly

Making a cup of flora tea just come easily to me.  The dried strawberry kiwi fruity infusion with a handy glass tea pot or tea infuser. That's it. 

Brews a cup of flora tea seems a bit boring. Try out this Flora Tea with Sea Bird Nest how's it? Not yukky at all.

I have got some good flora tea of Strawberry and Kiwi, hibiscus blossom flavor which is given by one of my dearest friend from New Zealand. I really feel grateful and thanks to my friend's generosity and kindness for supplying this flora tea to me from far. 

Now it is about time for me to give a refreshing dessert to unwind myself to fuel my day.

Make it a bit unique, cups of flora tea can be created into a healthy soup or drink with Euchuema Cottonii Seaweed or sea bird nest. As usual, brews the flora tea of your choice, like adding this Strawberries Kiwi Flora tea to flavoring and covers the fishy taste of Sea Bird Nest, it really gives a great blend of fruity undertones and refreshing tea dessert. Plus a real soothing benefits of its flora scented flavor to this Sea Bird Nest flora tea Jelly.

A few of the flora scented flora tea like chamomile, chrysanthemum tea and goji berries also great choice of mixtures into the Sea Bird Nest for making dessert Jelly or Soup.

There are many health benefits of taking flora tea, as well as sea bird nest, it relieves digestion problems, improve proper bowel function, anti-stress activities to  refine stressed skin, and natural healing to pimple skin, for maintaining a youthful skin, healthy glowing skin complexion may try this recipe. 

In additional, try more variety of options like using Dried longan and Rosebuds, it helps to boost and improving of blood circulation, dried longan is the best blood tonic. Rosebuds and dried longan is great for ladies to regulate the monthly menstruation cycles and boosting energy level. 

There are a couple of good blend for dried longan, try to add rosebuds or rose petals, red jujubes and dried longan flora fruity tea with Sea Bird Nest which is really good for ladies. That does make you feel more energetic and boost your immunity system.

How to make Flora Tea Sea Bird Nest Jelly

Ingredients:

(Steeping flora tea for 15 - 20 minutes)

• Strawberry and Kiwi Flora Tea – 2 tbsp.
• Rock sugar – 2 tbsp.
• Hot water - 1 tea pot 

Ingredients B: 

• Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest) - 100g
• Water - 2 glasses of water

Preparation:

1. Add in 2 glasses of water to boil.
2. Add in Sea Bird Nest and boil it till dissolve. 
3. Done, let it cool down for about 5 minutes.
4. Stir in the flora tea and stir well. Pour it to the jelly mold or small container with cover. Keep in refrigerator to chill and serve.

Healthy Tips:

Adds to your favorite fruit of choice - green apple, red beet juice or mango and honey into fruit blender, blend them together for healthy drinkable juice with raw Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest). It is a great 'Energy boost drink' is especially good for teenager and menopause woman. 


caution: if you are pregnant, nursing women, or taking medication. It is important to prevent any complication or reverse side effect when trying any alternative natural healing. Always consult your healthcare practitioner before use. 


If you are interested to know more about Sea Bird Nest/Eucheuma Seaweed, please contact me for more information:

We supply unwashed / Washed Sea Bird Nest (see photo)

Contact: 

Person in charge: Senz

email: senzfates@gmail.com

Barley Eucheuma Seaweed Cooling Drink

 

 

Cooking barley drink is very common home remedies drinks for kidney and bladder ailments for years. This home remedies has been used in treating the urinary trace problems naturally, neutralize the acid in the urine, as a diuretic cooling drink for getting rid of excess body fluid especially for pregnant women, and help to reduce of body heat. It is also a rich nourishing drink for beautiful skin.  

A difference taste of Barley water 

Adding more or bundle of Pandan Leaves not only add fragrant to the drink, when cook with pearl Barley has the medicinal effect to cut down the uric acid, aid gout, cholesterol and fats.

Adding Lime or Lemon juice, honey to Barley water gives kidney a flush, for bladder infection.

Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed ~ Sea Bird Nest to Barley Water

Adding Sea Bird Nest to the cooked Barley drink, this creates high fiber content and rich nutrients (Refer sea bird nest or Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed nutrients)  healthy drink for treating ailments like water retention, sweling legs, lower limbs odema, urinary trace infection problems, overactive bladder problem, improves bowel movement and ease constipation, and this helps in vitalize the kidney as well.

Making this recipe is quite simple. When cooking a pot of barley water, think about adding a bit of Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest) into the cooked barley. Remember do not over cook the Sea Bird Nest (to remain its nutrients and enzyme content).

Ingredients:

Ingredients A: (to cook Barley water with pandan leaves )

• 8 Pandan Leaves
• 1 cup of Barley
• 80g rock sugar
• Water 1800ml

(cook for about 1 hour)

Ingredients B:

Eucheuma Seaweed - 20g (washed and cleansed)

Preparation:

1. Washed, rinsed, soaked Eucheuma Seaweed overnight, or for cleaned and washed Sea Bird Nest only needs 5 - 6 hours of soaking time. Remember to change water several times with running water and continue soaking.

2. Drain water away. Cut Sea Bird Nest into smaller length or blend it with juice blender.

Method:

1. Place in ready cooked barley soup in the pot and bring to a boil.

2. When boil, stir in Ingredients B - the Eucheuma Seaweed (or blended) to cook for about 3 - 5 minutes.. Simmer it for another 5 minutes. Done.

3. You may cook it till dissolved. Add in a little bit of lemon juice makes the taste wonderful. When cold, it turns into Jelly form.

  

 3. Serve in hot or chilled as you desired.

Tips:

• How to keep soaked Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest). Usually I soaked Eucheuma Seaweed in large amount and leave it in refrigerator (can keep up to 1 week) for later consumption. 

Sea Bird Nest Roselle Salad & Jelly ~ Colon Detox

In the nutritionist studies pointed out that Roselle (Roselle Hibiscus Sabdariffa) including of rich Anthocyanidin that is one kind of flavonoid (called as Vitamin P) that is any of a large group of phyto-nutrients that are water-souble red pigments, considered to have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Also called Bioflovonoid, which has the strong oxidation resistance function, the right amount is edible to improve blood capillary’s tenacity, it can slow down the Angiosclerosis (hardening of the walls of blood vessels) and prevention cardiovascular illness, also anticancer treatment. It strengthens the nerve ending trans-location and improve blood circulation gives the brilliance and ruddiness complexion to human skin as good source of natural skincare to women.

Today something good to try by using Roselle Hibiscus Sabdariffa + Eucheuma Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest or San Huo Cao) in combination for colon and skin health.



Although the Roselle is considered as healthy stuff to our human body but due to its nature is cold. Therefore for “Yin” deficiency people is not suitable to take it excessively. Excessive consumption may also caused bothersome thirsty. Try in moderation for everything even it claims to be good.


Simply for the tasty and healthy conscious reason, to improve the skin texture and complexion, use of main ingredients by taking raw Eucheuma Seaweed, to combine with Roselle makes delicious and healthy salad, or making into dessert by adding basil seeds, also named as Tukmaria Seed or Kiwi Seed. This is one of the best to ease the constipation problem, gives your colon detoxify once a while, make you feel more energetic and having radiance complexion is quite easy.

The benefits of Tukmaria or Basil Seed

• Tukmaria or Basil seed in traditional medicinal used for autoimmune disorder, treatment of constipation, ingestion or bloating feeling and heartburn.

• It is a good cleanser to colon and removes all the toxin from human body. It has antibiotic effect to eliminating bacteria from the colon and is a good blood purifier.





Roselle Kiwi Seed with Sea Bird Nest (Eucheuma Seaweed or San Huo Cao)


Ingredients:

• 1 bowl of Eucheuma Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest)
• 1 bowl of Fresh Roselle Hibiscus calyces
• 2 Rock sugar
• 1 tbsp. of Wolfberries
• 2 tbsp. of Basil Seed (tukmaria Seed)
• 1000ml of water

*(serve 6 containers)







Preparation:

1. Blend Eucheuma Seaweed (San Huo cao or sea bird nest) in creamy form.

2. Set aside and ready to use.

3. Soak Basil Seed in a glass of water for 10 minutes or till spongy like and grey coating jelly like surrounded each seed. Drain water away and set aside.


Method:

1. Peel Roselle calyces and remove the seeds. Wash thoroughly.

2. Bring water to boil and add in Roselle calyces to cook for 15 mins.

3. Use strainer to remove the Roselle Calyces and keep the water only.

4. Do not throw away the cooked Roselle Calyces; use it for making homemade Roselle Jams.

5. Use the Roselle water to cook the wolfberries and rock sugar.

6. Add in Blended Eucheuma Seaweed (San Huo cao) to cook till dissolve with low heat.


7. Remove from heat and add in soaked Basil Seed and stir well.

8. Pour into the Jelly mould or container with lid. Let is set and keep in refrigerator and serve cold.

9. The taste of sweet sour healthy dessert. Enjoy it.























This recipe is good for serious constipation people, reduce of body heat, skin problems and improve skin texture and elasticity, lower cholesterol, and ingestion disorder and for detoxify.

Most important, this is good for digestion to take it after heavy meal.







Eucheuma Seaweed or Sea Bird Nest Benefits:

• For Eucheuma Seaweed health benefits please refer to here.




I found Eucheuma Seaweed ~ San Huo Cao also we called it Sea Bird Nest is a wonderful detoxify stuff. As we know something from the sea naturally like Eucheuma Seaweed can improve the stomach and colon problems. Especially to those with constipation and poor digestion that may also causes skin problem e.g acne, pimples, pigmentation and brown spots to our skin.

It is especially good for skin, as vegetarian diet and daily fiber diet intake. It grows naturally and contains no artificial fertilizer or chemical. With contain necessary amino acids, non caloric, super low-fat and multi-fibre functions, contents of soluble fibre are very high and the active substances, its polar soluble fibre will adjust insulin to keep blood sugar’s balance and prevent from the diabetes caused by hyperglycemia. It also eliminates free radical efficiently for detoxify body organs and activate cell tissues for metabolism and anti-aging.

Instead of buying expensive bird nest, use Eucheuma seaweed to cook or serve as salad for beauty skin and mainly it keeps us in good health too. It is simply delicious.


Sea Bird Nest Roselle Detox Salad


Ingredients:

Raw Ingredients A:

• 1 Cucumber
• 1 bowl of Roselle Calyces
• 1 Bowl of Eucheuma Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest)
• 1 small bowl of cooked Corn
• 3 - 4 Shallots (chopped)

Seasoning Ingredients B:

• 1 tbsp. of salt
• 2 tbsp. of sugar
• 2 tbsp. of Soy sauce
• Lime Honey Vinegar (homemade Enzyme) 1/2 bowl
• 1/2 of Lemon (Squeeze Juice)

Preparation:

1. Soak and Wash Eucheuma Seaweed (Sea Bird Nest) thoroughly, keep changing water several times daily and soak for at least 3 days.

2. Peel and wash Roselle Calyces, remove the seed. Wash thoroughly and soak with salt water for 15 mins. Then drain the water and Set aside.

3. Cut cucumber into thin slices. Soak in salt water for 15 mins. Drain dry and set aside.

4. Chop shallots into smaller slices.


Method:

1. Pour all the Raw ingredients A into salad bowl.
2. Add in seasoning ingredients B and mixed well.
3. Done and keep in refrigerator and serve cold.




Let's have a refreshing cleanse and detoxifies with Roselle and Eucheuma Seaweed Enzyme Vinegar Salad. Keep your colon in healthy condition always to prevent colon illnesses.

Eucheuma Seaweed My Antioxidant Booster

Tea or Coffee? I love coffee very much. To be a little bit more health conscious what I can do is to avoid overdoses with caffeine. Nowadays I would avoid taking more than 3 cups of coffee in a day. Try to cut down the caffeine intake for my body before it does deteriorate my body. I need to boost my immunity system with high antioxidants due to stressful works. Usually taking a cup of tea certainly is calming effect, especially flora tea and green tea.

The picture of unwashed and washed Eucheuma Seaweed/Sea Bird Nest in process stages.

• Top picture of Washed Eucheuma Seaweed take about 5 hours to soak and preparation in progress.
• Below is those unwashed Eucheuma Seaweed take at least 3 days of soaking and washing in several times daily in progress.

Adding food varieties in taste, nutrients and benefits plus anti-aging of cos the beauty and slimming always come first to me.

Eucheuma Seaweed + Jasmine green tea mixed with orange juice Plus Plus ++ it is my great antioxidant booster, with its light and refreshing aroma flavor may go well with Eucheuma Seaweed / Sea Bird Nest. This fishy thing is as good as Bird Nest....Also "Edible Skincare".

Carrageenan extracted from the Eucheuma Seaweed is used as a stabilizer in food and cosmetics. Its highest amount of protein does not contains any cholesterol. And it has good compound to stabilize the fruit juices, jelly and pudding.

About the benefits of taking Eucheuma Seaweed you can refer to this link here. After soaking process and removed the fishy smell of Eucheuma Seaweed with ionized water or water. In fact I found Eucheuma Seaweed is tasteless after soaked and washed in water for several times.

The purpose of get rid of the fishy smell with the combination of orange juice aroma taste of citrus added Vitamins C plus refreshing taste. Whatever best goes well with my taste bud, I try to make it. Not only that, especially Green tea to those with irritable bowel movement can not take too much of it. So the idea of making it with Eucheuma Seaweed / Sea Bird Nest would help to solve the problem for green tea lover.

Benefits of Green Tea

In additional, the health benefits of Green Tea contain catechin polyphenols which possesses powerful antioxidant activity and antibiotic properties. It helps reduction in cancer risk and lower fat tissue levels, if you want to slim down take more of this stuff and boost metabolism rate to burn more fat with its detoxification process, it really help in digestion tract problem and weight lost plus anti-aging naturally, Eucheuma seaweed /Sea Bird Nest is edible skincare for women. It is just like taking collagen for your skin. Why not! It’s satisfying your sweet tooth by taking junk foods this is one of the best skincare.

Add Orange Juice or Citrus in Green Tea health benefits

This suggests of add in orange juice or lemon increases green tea’s antioxidants, if you have ever had probelms with poor digestion you may want to try drinking teas or some kind of herbs, try to add and make this Eucheuma Seaweed into your diet or beverage. it will help with digestion and giving your body an extra boost and improve bodily absorption.

As the Citrus juice increased recovered catechin levels by more than 5 times, Lemon Juice and its Ascorbic acid, or vitamin C has a stabilizing affect higher than orange, the benefits of adding orange or Lemon juice into Green tea to cook Eucheuma Seaweed, not only adding Vitamin C is used for flavor and also to increase shelf life. It showed the results in more available antioxidants at the absorption phase also simulates digestion in the stomach and small intestine. As the green tea catechins become unstable in a non-acidic environment and less than 20 percent of the amount originally ingested remains after entering the intestines.

Ingredients:

1 bowl of Eucheuma Seaweed/ Sea Bird Nest (blend or cut into fine pieces)

2 Jasmine Green Teabags

Juice of 2 Oranges

4 cups of water

(This recipe is just like making agar-agar Jelly)

Preparation:

1. Boil 3 cups of water and put in the Eucheuma Seaweed till it totally dissolved and turn into jelly form.
2. Boil 1 cup of water, put in Jasmine green tea bags to a teapot. Add in rock sugar till dissolve. simmer or let it sit for 5 to 7 minutes. (do not cook Jasmine green tea).
   
3. Remove the tea bags. Ready for use. 
4. After the Sea Bird Nest is dissolved. Stir well all the ingredients.
   
5. Let it cool a little bit then add the orange juice and Jasmine Green Tea to it. Stir well all the ingredients.
   
6. Pour the Eucheuma Jelly into the small container with cap or Jelly mould to set. 
7. Chill in refrigerator and it will become jelly form in container and serve for 4 persons. Done and Enjoy!

Tips: Do not throw away the green teabags, freeze the used tea bags it is good eyes treatment pads for tired eyes!

For cooking tips:

Instead of using corn starch to thickening a broth in cooking. Use Eucheuma Seaweed plainly cooked without adding any sugar or salt and form it into jelly form, then keep in small container. chill in refrigerator and ready for use, to replace corn starch for thickening a broth in your cooking.

It will thicken the broth in your cooking with its high in phyto-nutrients and ease poor digestion and don't worry it is tasteless.

 

San Hu Cao ~ Eucheuma Seaweed

There are many usages in Sea bird nest (Eucheuma Seaweed), also San Hu Cao in chinese.

It is sea vegetable. The marine plant of this organic seaweed is rich in enzyme nutrients, collagen and mineral substance, calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorus, sodium and multitude fibers and jelly form proteins.

It is especially good for skin care, vegetarian diet and daily fiber diet intake. It grows naturally and contains no artificial fertilizer or chemical. With contain necessary amino acids, non caloric, super low-fat and multi-fibre functions, contents of soluble fibre are very high and the active substances, its polar soluble fibre will adjust insulin to keep blood sugar’s balance and prevent from the diabetes caused by hyperglycemia. It also eliminates free radical efficiently for detoxify body organs and activate cell tissues for metabolism and anti-aging.

Instead of buying expensive bird nest, I prefer to use Eucheuma seaweed to cook with rock sugar. For beauty skin and mainly it keeps me in good health too. It is simply delicious.

How the Eucheuma Seaweed looks like? And what are the benefits?

This is unwashed Eucheuma seaweed image. It has a very characteristic shape.

In Asia, Chinese and Japanese have a long history to take seaweed and algae as the herbs of the sea, it is widely used as food and medicine, and we pay much attention to nutrition and health care recently.

Eucheuma Seaweed is significance for human health and function greatly.  

The popular sources for carrageenan can be obtained from Eucheuma Seaweed, and it is merely soluble in water which need be at only such temperature as to dissolve the carrageenan composition, extract the active materials for industrial usage, and with great consumption of seaweed for people's living standard has improved and pursued for health foods and health care purposes. Seaweed is natural medicines and disease curing effects on human bodies since thousand of years ago. As there are various types of seaweed in the market now.

For Industrial usage:

1. It can be used as raw material carrageen industry. The most important substance called carrageenan also commonly known as seaweed flour.
   
2. It can be used as emulsifier, stabilizer agent, gel agent for food industry such as this substance is used in the manufacture of ice cream, chocolates, custards, cake topping and fillings, milk shakes, yogurts, dessert gel, canned foods, fish gel, sauces, and many others.
3. It can be used as water based paints, toothpastes, lotions, shampoos, several pharmaceutical products.

For health and beauty care:

This nutritious Sea Bird Nest is best to eat it raw as salad and blend in fruit juice, plus cooking dessert, Jelly, and cooling drinks.

Eucheuma Seaweed nutrition details (per 100g):

Calcium	671 mg
Iron	671 mg
Magnesium	661 mg
phosphorus	139 mg
Sodium	6.31%
Salinity	15.7%
Ph on 4% solution	7.6%
Energy	266 kcal
Protein	0.73g
Carbohydrate	59.9g
Total Lipid	0.05g
Water	91.32g
Fiber	0.5g
Ash	1.36g

Eucheuma Seaweed may promote the oxidation resistance enzyme's activeness, strengthens the liver disintoxicating function, elimination free radical; The suitable supplement (magnesium, zinc, selenium, sulfur, germanium) and so on, it may also carry on the opposing reaction with in vivo heavy metal, heavy metal of toxin in vivo accumulation, discharges in vitro by way of the excretory system. It is very effective for constipation people, and it adjust the body weight, when after human body nonessential waste disposal, the body weight reduces naturally.

In short, Eucheuma / Sea Bird Nest Benefits :

• It adjustments body acidity
• Help to reduce cholesterol
• It is diuretic and good source of low caloric diet
• Good curative powers for neck pain and edema.
• It has antibacterial power, expulsion of toxin
• It helps to prevent thyroid and hair loss
• Prevent constipation
• Long term gastrointestinal disease, like stomach ache, ulcer, constipation, diarrhea, hyper acidity, dyspepsia and so on.
• improvement hypertension and the hypo-tension
• enables the thyroid gland function normalization
• to eliminates nephritis effectively, arthritis,
• Strengthens the blood vessel, promotion blood circulation.
• improves rheumatism
• Suitable supplement of natural collagen for joint cartilage, strengthens the physique and ligament, improves problem on joint ache and backache.
• natural organic sea plant for vegetarian and older age for its supplement in rich calcium and iron.
• Ideal weight lost diet for pre-menopause and obesity peoples.
  

Now, what my simply senz recipes with San Hu Cao, Sea bird nest or Eucheuma Seaweed, is what I prepared here with Eucheuma Raw Salad, desserts, cooling drink and Jelly and it is so yummy!!

Firstly, San Hu Cao (Eucheuma Seaweed) is dried and you need to soak it before you can use it. Those unwashed Eucheuma seaweed takes time to soak and keep changing water for at least few hours or 3 days and depends. 

Soaking in water and remember keep changing water at least 3 - 4 times.

After 5 hours of soaking and washed. For making salad, I will soak it for 5 hours and maintain its crunchy.

For making Jelly and drink, I prefer to soak it for 3 days and change water daily for making Jelly.

Simply San Hu Cao Salad

Ingredients A:

• Eucheuma Seaweed 20g
• Korean Seaweed 20 g
  
• ½ Cucumber (shredded)
• 1 Tomato (cut in small cube size)
• 1 Green Apple (shredded)
• ½ Carrot (shredded)
• 1 Lemon (optional)
• Toasted White Sesame seed
• Celery (cut in small portion)

Toss soaked seaweed with cucumbers, greens, toasted sesame oil and your favorite seasonings,

Ingredients B:

• Sesame Oil
• Chili sauce
• Chili water (optional)
• Kumquat Lemon vinegar with honey or vinegar (I prefer to use kumquat)
• Light soy sauce

Procedures for making raw salad with Eucheuma (Shan Hu Cao) Seaweed:

1. Soak Eucheuma Seaweed in fresh water for over night and change water several times, keep changing water and washed many times with running water before you eat it raw or cook it.
2. Drain in running water and cut into desire length.
3. Blanch in lukewarm water for 5 minutes

4. Cut all Ingredients into smaller slices. Prepare for use.

5. Mixed all ingredients A into a bowl.Toss soaked Eucheuma and korean seaweed with all ingredients A and mixed well with Ingredients B for seasoning. Except the white sesame seed and celery.

6. Place in a plate and sprinkle toasted white sesame seed and celery on top of salad and served.

My beauty Tips
 

The Ideal ways for Internal and external usage of Eucheuma Seaweed (shan Hu Cao/Sea Bird Nest) for beauty and weight lost.

For external usage: Eucheuma Seaweed Facial Mud DIY

For Beauty: After taking this little coral grass ~ Eucheuma Seaweed and soaks softly, use the juice extractor blend it into thin mud, spreads on the face, after 15 minutes washed off, it might improve and soften skin nature.

For Weight lost:

Its rich fiber and low quantity of calories, also provide for thought lose weight friend to take it as the ideal weight lost meal, take it with the empty stomach its edible effect is good, not only reduce the body weight effectively, it also remove and detoxifying toxin. Preferable to take it with empty stomach for better result.

To be continue.....Jelly, dessert and cooling drinks with Eucheuma Seaweed.