Agriculture and Aquaculture Newsletter ~ October 2012

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Almond Ginkgo White Fungus Longan Soup Paste

Rice cereal or rice paste, in Chinese we called it Mi Hu ‘米糊’。When we think of Mi Hu ‘米糊’ is quite similar to baby food like rice cereal.

Rice paste is finely crushing, in semi-solid materials and boiling to form into a fine paste. Taking gluten free like rice cereal that is easier in absorption and help to improve gastrointestinal digestive system to sick people, as well as young baby and elderly people to ease their poor digestion and absorption, especially to the elderly, their various body organs function is gradually diminishes and recession, making food into rice cereal and paste form is definitely beneficial for them.

Usually rice cereal or nut paste is made from whole grains, nuts, and beans in the quality of dried powder or wet form basis like rice paste cooking. To those people with gastrointestinal digestive system problems, taking rice paste food or Mi Hu '米糊’ compares to ordinary foods the absorption rate is higher and easy in digestion. 

In Traditional Chinese medicine believes that daily taking whole grains have the benefits and effect of disease prevention. Especially for the duodenal or gastric cancer patients with poor appetite and intestinal problem can use rice cereal as daily healing meals. 

With the appropriate foods and drinks even though is just the ordinary food, when we consume with appropriate method and proper mixture in recipe, it gives great benefits with the therapeutic effect to achieving unexpected healing, as in medicinal result natural alternative healing it really works. 

So I choose this recipe as natural foods for rejuvenating, calming and healing basis, yet it helps to rebuild the frayed nerves with this delicious therapeutic healthy dessert soup. Although it is quite a lot of preparations to do, but when think of the health benefits is worth to try.

I like to use almond and nuts as main ingredient in making rice paste soup. This Almond Ginkgo White Fungus Longan soup recipe is delicious in taste, healthy and yummy.  


Simply Senz Almond Ginkgo White Fungus Logan Soup Paste

Ingredients A: 

• Almond
• White Fungus
• Dried Longan
• Water 500ml

Ingredient B:

• Ginkgo Seeds 
• White Fungus
• Dried Longan
• Brown Sugar 
• 200ml of water 

Preparation: 

1.  Remove Ginkgo hard shell with small hammer to the end of the tip to crack open. Take out the Ginkgo nut and remove its embryo which is bitter in taste and has slightly toxicity content. 

2.  Soak white fungus for at least 3 hours, keep draining and changing water interval in every one hour, rinse and clean properly, cut into smaller pieces. Ready for use.

3.  Bake the almond nuts in Oven for 5 minutes with low heat temperature.

Cooking method

Ingredients B: 

1.  Boil water, cook the Ginkgo nuts and white fungus in boiling water for 10 minutes, then add in dried longan to cook for another 5 mins. 

2.  Place aside and ready for use. 

Ingredients A: 

1.  Put all ingredient A. in blender cooking pot, blending and cooking the Almond, white fungus and dried longan into paste form approximately in 20 minutes cooking time.  

2.  Remove ingredient A from cooking pot, add in cooked ingredient B to almond paste and stir well. Serve warm. 

This recipe is good for insomnia, postpartum blood deficiency after birth, ease cough, improve constipation problem, skin whitening, anti-aging, skin rejuvenation effect, enhance and nourishes lungs and boost kidney health. It helps delay aging and boost body immunity system, to inherent better effect in conditioning for beauty and health.

 

Almond 

Almond can reduce blood cholesterol as well as reduce risk of heart disease. It has polyunsaturated fatty acids, improves constipation, rich anti-oxidant and anti cancer. Ease coughing and reduces phlegm, nourishing lungs and beautifying skin rejuvenation, natural skin whitening effect. Almonds has the high medicinal value and rich nutrients which is famous food used to divergence cold, cough and asthma, it has laxative effect, which is excellent for lungs health and skincare. 

Almond content protective nutrients like calcium and magnesium, it helps in preventing colon and rectal cancers, strong bones to preventing osteoporosis, potassium, fatty acids, monounsaturated fat and vitamin E, the Fatty acid is good source of heart food, the monounsaturated fatty acids in almond, can help to lower cholesterol. Studies have shown that potassium helps in maintaining and balancing of normal blood pressure levels for preventing the risk of heart disease, and prevent cancer. It is Low in saturated fat, proteins and minerals. Almond is good beauty food for skin, rich in vitamin E and other antioxidants can prevent disease and premature aging for beauty care. 

Recent scientific studies have also showed that almond can promote skin micro-circulation, help in skin rejuvenation like skincare effect. 

Ginkgo Seed 

Ginkgo seed or ginkgo nut is known as bai guo in Chinese. In traditional Chinese foods we used the seeds and used in for making soup, dessert and fried with other foods, It has medicinal effect mostly used to treat coughing, lungs problem, memory enhancer and strengthen kidney health and aphrodisiac qualities as best food for men health. 

We always think that ginkgo is good health food but it also can be toxicity too if overdoses in consumption. The ginkgo must be handle with properly way to remove the internal embryo from the flesh of the Ginkgo seed. Try not to take uncooked Ginkgo seeds is best to cook or boil it to reduce the toxicity. For children under age of 5 is best to avoid and should be prohibited to take or limit the number of seeds. 

Ginkgo seed content of amino acids, organic acids, minerals, fiber, riboflavin, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron, selenium, potassium, magnesium, multi-trace elements, flavonoid, proteins, Phenol glycosides, good source of B vitamin and other substances. Which is high in food value and medicinal value, in pharmaceutically is natural healing health care food with medicinal benefits. 

Ginkgo Seed, its nature is sweet, bitter, astringent, overeating can cause diarrhea. Ginkgo although is toxic as long with the reasonable amount of consumption and do not overdoses, to avoid harmful poisoning effect. 

Ginkgo has been used widely as an important medicinal inhibition food to treat skin fungi, staphylococcus, streptococcus, diphtheria and typhoid. it can be used to prevent and cure diseases, and it produces a variety of nutritious and healthy food. 

1. Daily intakes of 8-10 ginkgo seeds, help to reduce gynecological diseases. 

2. Hypertensive patients’ daily intake of 5 ginkgo seeds is like taking antihypertensive drugs. The effect is obvious and work for hypertensive patients 

3. The ginkgo seed, meridian channel to the lungs and kidney, efficacy for chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, cough, reduces of phlegm, for beauty care, it has anti-wrinkle and good for skin rejuvenation. 

4. Protecting blood vessels, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, increase coronary blood flow, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption and promote blood circulation, and improve the role of the hypoxic tolerance and other therapeutic effects and medical effects. 

5. Treat hypertension, hyperlipidemia (such as cholesterol and triglycerides) in the blood, Leucorrhea, can cure excessive spermatorrhea, frequent urination, urinary tract infection, cerebral dysfunction and other diseases with special preventive and therapeutic effect. 

How to open ginkgo seed 

Uses a small hammer gently knocks the end of the tip to crack open and peel off the hard shell. 

Dried Longan

The dried longan is nutrient-rich, is precious nourish enhancer and with anticancer effects, dried Longan is the natural tonic for heart and spleen, with a role of dredge the heart qi and tonic Heart to boost energy and blood, and soothe the nerves. It is not only a tonic effect also added sweet aroma and good taste. Study found that dried longan has the inhibition effect of 90% rate to uterine cancer, is also Gynecologic Oncology good food for women's menopausal stage, and tonic enhancer to physical weakness. 

White fungus 

White Fungus, also named as cloud ears, snow ears, or Xue er “雪耳”, common name in Chinese or mandarin pinyin known as Bai Mu Er， “白木耳”。

White Fungus is the nutritional tonic to moisture the lungs and nourishing to the skin. its meridian channels into the lungs, spleen, stomach, kidney, colon, help in strengthen kidney, intestines, stomach qi and blood, it is refreshing, beauty, rejuvenation, longevity healthy food with low calories, high in calcium content, with variety of carbohydrate, variety of minerals, such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, sodium, magnesium, sulfur and iron. It also contains 18 kinds of amino acids, including 7 kinds of essential amino acids. 

Good for chronic bronchitis and pulmonary heart disease. bloody sputum, strengthening respiratory system for treating dryness of dry cough. 

In beauty and weight lost, it is a good natural source of natural supplement; it has anti aging properties and play a role in skin rejuvenation skincare, as a results to get rid of facial melasma, freckles for skin whitening effect and promote hormone secretion, It is good dietary fiber which may help gastrointestinal peristalsis to reduce fat absorption, for the achievement of weight loss dietary fiber food. White fungus also enhances the detoxification to liver and the hepatoprotective activities effect. 

White Fungus ~ Bai Mu Er, containing vitamin D, it helps in preventing loss of calcium, which is beneficial to the growth and development for children; rich in selenium and other trace elements, white fungus has rich ingredients of polysaccharides has anti-tumor effect which can enhance in anti-tumor and boost immunity system. The acidic polysaccharide can enhance the body's immune system to mobilize lymphocytes strengthen the phagocytic activity of white blood cells and bone marrow function which is malignancy and also significantly inhibited. In traditional Chinese medicinal white fungus is moisture foods to lungs that benefits 5 internal organs, is best to take white fungus soup or drink after chemotherapy, it believes it can help in enhance tolerance to radiotherapy, chemotherapy in cancer patients. 

Note: 

Most of the white fungus selling in market is kind of excessively in bleaching during the sulfur fumigation in drying process and to avoid mold growth for preservation. The burning sulfur to produce into Sulphur Dioxide and Sulphites has a bleaching effect. Excessive bleaching in white fungus is more Sulfur dioxide residues, this can lead to excessive in generated with chemical content to white fungus. The sulfur dioxide is then formed with water sulfite, sulfate can increases bronchospasm and asthma attacks risk to health, when it converted to a Carcinogenic risk of chemicals, Nitrites can easily converted to nitrosamines, and this chemical formation in the human body can probably cause cancer. 

Try not to take leftover foods like white fungus, white fungus contains nitrates, when overnight nitrates will breaks down and decomposition of bacteria into Nitrites which is harmful and toxicity to health. 

With properly soaking and rinsing with water can reduce the chemical contents. As the Sulfur dioxide is soluble in water, so before cooking white fungus, try to soak for at least 3 hours, during which every one hour keep draining off the soaking water, and changing water intervals, this may help to reduce the risk of taking residual chemical content in white fungus.

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Fish Scales Jelly for osteoarthritis and beauty care .

It has been a while people talking about fish scales jelly, and they begin to use of deep sea fish scales that are discarded in commercial fishery, then recycle into useful healthy healing dessert soup or making jelly for consumption.  

Breast Enhancement Dessert ~ Papaya Almond Egg Milk Pudding

Now it's time for blogging again, after all my year end busiest work schedules still in line and very hectic moment too. Right now is good time for dessert and some nutrition beauty care dessert to unwind my mind…......are you getting bored with steam eggs milk pudding? 

Senz's Cheesa Fruit Milkshake and Fruity Toast

Usually I like to use fruit juice for detox. And juice fasting which is the easiest way help to stay healthier life. It cleanses and detoxifying the body to eliminate the toxins from the body, and help to improve and boost immune system against diseases. Creating and implementing the new fruit juice is also as part of my favorite hobby. Healthy fruit juices can really give a wonderful boost to our body immunity system from preventing illnesses also for curing with detoxification through fruit and vegetable juices fasting. And once a while, I would try out some nutritious high in protein and dietary fiber fruit juice. Not for fasting but to have some replenishment beverage with good taste and healthy milkshake blends.

Whenever I have a chance, as with everything concern about health care, I will trying out the new best recipes of all kind, which have direct impact with natural healing effect. I was impressed by this unique fruit and it looks like mango, but not. So I bought 2 different species, one is oval in pointed shape another type is round like Apple Mango.

Varieties of weird and wild fruits, vegetables and herbs can be found easily in native areas especially in Sabah and Sarawak.  Like those unknown name type of fruit that is not popular in cultivation yet. While many of this valued fruit is unknown, perhaps only the native peoples knew about the usages and its valuable healthy medicinal benefits.  It's interesting to find out more......

The name of this fruit is also quite fancy too. Locally we called it as “Cheese Fruit”, or “Chesa Fruit”, some name it as “Butter Cheese Fruit”,  “Chessa Tiessa” or “egg fruit"......

  

Scientific name: Yellow Sapote, Canistel or Chesa 

Malay name: Buah Mentega 

English Name: Chesa or Canistel Fruit

Vietnamese name: Cay Trun Ga ~ "chicken egg plant"

The origin of this fruit is from the native of Southern Mexico and central of America.  And its name as “Canistel” is family of Sapotaceae, and the species of  Pouteria camphechiana. This name is derived from the Mexican town of Campeche.

This fruit is very common in Philippines, Manila market and usually selling by the local native. Its appearance of its flesh, texture like egg yolk, and in the middle consists of hard seed. I bought this "Chesa fruit" from the native market in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. When Canistel Fruit is raw, it is harden, and will be soften and ripe in 3 to 7 days when stored in room temperature.

The taste is a bit sweet, and taste like the local wild durian with a bit of persimmon taste to me. Very nice taste, creamy and sticky, some said it taste like cooked egg yolk.

It can be eaten raw, when this fruit is ripened, as the flesh is creamy and a bit of waxy after touched. The pureed flesh can be used to make into varieties of healthy recipe like ice cream, milkshake, salad cream, jam and very similar to custard paste.

The nutritional value:

• Protein
• Carotene
• Riboflavin
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin C
• Phosphorus
• Fiber
• Carbohydrates
• fat
• Niacin
• Thiamin
• Calcium
• Ascorbic Acid
• Various Amino Acids, eg. Lysine, Methionine and Tryptophan

I found this unique wild fruit is good for juice blends and making into healthy food, desserts and drinks. Its high fiber and nutrient content helps in promote smooth bowel movement and aid in digestion. Fiber rich fruit juice also help in control the body from absorption of fats, ideals for those prefer to have a dietary fibrous fruit like this Chesa Fruit or Buah Mentega.

Delicious tasty fruit juice by Senz

 Natural pure Cheese Fruit Milk shake

Basic Blends of Cheese Fruit Milk Shake

Ingredients to prepare: 

• Cheese fruit (peel skin and remove seeds)
• Condense milk 1 teaspoon
• Water ½ glass
• 5 ice cubes

Place all the ingredients and blend with juicer. 

Serve.

Papaya Cheesy fruity milk shake

 Ingredients:

• Cheese Fruit (peel skin and remove seeds)
• Papaya (cut in cubes)
• Condense milk – 1 teaspoon
• Water ½ glass
• Ice cubes 5 to 6

Blend all the ingredients till it becomes creamy milk shake form. Serve. 

This Chesa Fruit taste good with banana for a rich potassium milkshake, this is entirely up to your taste buds to decide.

Senz's Chesa Banana Fruity Toast

Chesa fruit is good choice for making ice cream, jam, cakes and desserts, taking it as raw fruit salad with mayonnaise. Real nice!

I like this Chesa Banana Mayonnaise sandwiches. This wonderful taste of high in protein, dietary fiber and potassium Chesa Fruity Banana Toast really makes my day.

Love the unique fruity taste of this healthy Toast....Try your own recipes now! 

Sea Bird Nest Orange Pudding

Sea Bird Nest in an orange. Have you ever tried Orange + Kamquat + Sea Bird Nest before? What if the orange comes with nutritious Sea Bird Nest, a refreshing Orange Kamquat mixed with Sea Bird Nest give you a low carb citrus delicious pudding dessert. (Know more about Sea Bird Nest ~ Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed here)

Let’s start doing it:

Ingredients:

• 3 large Sunkist Oranges
• 3 Kamquat (Kit Chai)
• 1 bowl of soaked Sea Bird Nest (about 300g)
• 100 ml of Pure Orange syrup
• 2 tablespoon of rock sugar
• 800ml of water

Preparation:

Sea Bird Nest

1. Wash Sea bird Nest in running water and soak it in a big bowl. Soak in water for about 3 to 4 hours.

2. Keep changing water for at least 4 to 5 times within the interval of 3 hours. Till it turns soft and expanded in shape.

3. After 3 hours of soaking, rinse with clean water, drain dry Sea Bird Nest.

4. Blends Sea Bird Nest with Juice Blender into fine paste form. 

Orange

1. Slide the orange into half.

2. Scoop out the orange flesh. Keep it in a bowl.

3. Keep the skin of orange to be used as Jelly Mould later.

4. Blend the orange flesh into juice.

Kamquat (Kit Chai)

1. Use the Juice blender to bend the Kamquat (kit chai) with skin. Keep aside for use.

Note: Kamquat peel gives the aroma of the fruit and it contains of essential oil and limonene.

Method:

1. Place water to boil.

2. Add in blended Sea Bird Nest and rock sugar till dissolved.

3. Pour in orange juice and kumquat juice, stir slowly till well mixed.

4. Cook for about 5 minutes.

5. Remove from heat. Spoon in the Orange Sea Bird Nest Pudding into the Orange Skin to let it set.

6. When cold keep in refrigerator. Chill and serve.

Tips:

• Plain sea bird nest (without flavor) can be cooked and keep in container to set into jelly form. keep it in the refrigerator.

For Hi-Fiber Fruit Blend:

Every morning take 1 big spoon full and add into your flavor fruit juices. It is really good for morning fruit juice flush, high fiber contains and helps in digestion and weight lost program. (If you can tolerate with raw taste of sea bird nest, it is much better in keeping its nutrients and enzymes content.)

For Cooking:

• A tablespoon of plain Sea Bird nest Jelly (cooked and set) can be used to thickening a broth in cooking, instead of using corn flour or starch. It gives valued nutrients to your dishes. 

Hope you can try it yourself and enjoy ! Simply Healthy dessert for you....

Longjing Green Tea Barley Red Date Detoxify Soup

Most people commonly cooking Barley water is simple home remedy for cleansing, support and nourishing of kidney, and for bladder ailments and urinary infections, diarrhea, and coughing. 

Barley has very good source of  fibre, selenium, phosphorus, copper and manganese. An important part of the Selenium is our body essential component, the value of the at least 52% of selenium can be obtained in a cup of cooked barley, regularly drinking barely water can help to boost the metabolic pathway e.g thyroid hormone metabolism, antioxidant defense and immunity functions.

We also know the benefits of drinking Chinese Tea, especially the green tea of Longjing 龙井茶and the Oolong Tea 乌龙茶 is somewhere between green and black in oxidation. Which have the antioxidant effect and increases metabolic rate and fat oxidation. To help melt away body fat, as well as activate certain enzymes and controlling the deposition of triglyceride.

Longjing tea or Chinese name as Dragon Well 龙井茶 is green tea from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province of china. It's a gentle rich and pure aroma tea contains of amino acids, Vitamin C and highest catechins among teas. Chinese Tea especially Longjing green tea contains tea polyphenols (catechins) that help in weigh lost. Oolong Tea also works wonderful as to drink away pounds for burning body fatty tissue. As it helps in clarify skin also fight against signs of aging, plus it is great detoxifying tea with highly antioxidant effect. It strengthens body immunity system too. 

I choose Longjing Green Tea for this recipe.This creates a concoction for a specific ailment in this recipe, which is to cook the barley powder and red dates paste into soup, stews and infused Longjing tea to combine into the Barley Red date soup. With the little bit of aroma taste of tea, adding green tea to this Barley drink that cook with red dates is a wonderful antioxidant and detoxify drink for the hot weather.

Red dates give sweet flavor and warming effect to help in enhances and harmonizes for cooking with other herbs. It also helps in promoting good health in lungs, heart and nourishing the spleen and stomach as well. A great refreshing, and has the effect of anticancer and wonder detoxifying soup. This produces a cooling drink with diuretic, digestive aid and mild soothing effect.

For easy preparation, you can use ready made Barley Powder and Green Tea Powder selling in the health food store. I found that finely grinding the barely into powder form not only reduce the cooking time, reduces time to stay in the digestive tracts for digestion, it also benefits body absorbing and good for digestive tracts problem people.

Ingredients:

• Barley - 2 tbsp.
• 15 Red Dates
• Rock Sugar 1 tbsp
• Green tea – Longjing tea 1 teaspoon
• 500 ml of water

Note:

You can replace with Ready made barley powder and green tea powder for this recipe.

Preparation:

1. Brew Longjing Tea by using infusion, steeped 3–4 minutes and keep the tea water for use. Or can also use Green Tea Powder with lime taste refreshing for this recipe.

Method:

1. Wash barley, drain away the water, air dry, ready for use.

2. Wash Red dates and soaks in water for 15 minutes. Drain dry

 

3. Blend the Barley into powder form.

4. Blend Red Dates into paste form

5. Bring water to boil, add in barley powder and red dates paste to cook for at least half an hour.

6. Add in green tea powder or Longjing green tea continue with low heat cooking for 3 minutes.

7. Add in rock sugar and serve warm. 

 

A refreshing dessert soup simply good for burning body fat; clarify your skin complexion for a radiant glow, help to boost energy and strengthens your immune system, detoxifying your spleen, stomach and nourishing your kidney. 

The best time to consume it in the morning. Just like taking a cereal grain for breakfast. This gives your intestinal health a healthy boost for healthy colon to prevent risk of colon cancer, it also has the effect of lower cholesterol, and it regulates blood sugar and barley grain contain of good source of fibre. 

Enjoy it!

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.

Roselle ~ Luo Shen Hua Beverage and Jams

In Southeast Asia countries, the Roselle (Roselle Hibiscus Sabdariffa) named in Chinese known as 洛神花 (Luo Shen Hua) is regarded as medicinal plant use as herbal infusion. It is very common in making delicious and healthy soup, Jelly, sweet pickle and homemade Jams.




In recent years the Chinese medicine researches that it had the anti-hypertension besides the preliminary confirmation Roselle is widely used, in folk medicine it has associated with traditional medicine as:

• Blood purifier as well as a diuretic, treat urinary tract infection,
• To improve of constipation as it has mild laxative,
• Can also reduce the blood fat and blood triglyceride effectively,
• For several diseases such as hypertension and improve blood circulation,
  
• Help digestion and improve digestive tract absorption,
• Anti-aging by suppress free radical activity
• Treat cardiac and nerve diseases and cancer.
• Treat the liver disease, regarding suppressed cancer,
• Adjust the feminine physiological menstrual cycle,
• In cosmetology maintenance used as skincare
• Healthy beverage and herbal tea with good effect for weight loss
• Whets the appetite, cooling and relieves thirst effect.

Roselle (Luo Shen Hua) is rich in vitamin C and its calyces are made into healthy food and beverage, the red pigment of Roselle which contain of crystalline anthocyanins, hibicin as well as protocatechuic acid. The Roselle extract contains the oxidation inhibitor ingredients and the Polyhenols has oxidation resistance in majority by suppress low density lipoprotein to prevent oxidation in our body.


Commonly the fruit is taking fresh, decore them, and then dry the Roselle calyces used as beverage and herbs tea. It can also process into sweet pickle, salad and fruit jams.

Now it has also commonly used to make into enzyme or vinegar as healthy drink in Asia. Frequently drinking the Roselle herbs tea or beverage may achieve the health care effect.


Roselle herbs tea or beverage

Preparation:

• Peel Roselle Calyces and remove the seeds. Wash thoroughly.

Ingredients:

• Roselle Calyces – 2 bowl
• Rock sugar (depends on individual taste)
• 500 ml of water

Simply cook the Roselle Calyces with water and add in rock sugar to taste.











The health benefits of taking Roselle as drink or herbs tea, its reduce high blood pressure by lowering the high levels of LDL cholesterol to protect and against heart disease.

The recommended dosage about 10 grams in the dried flower tea form once or twice a day.


Healthy homemade Roselle Jams

Usually after cooking of Roselle extract, I used the cooked Roselle Calyces to do homemade healthy jams. Simple as that and do not waste good thing.



Ingredients:

• Cooked Roselle Calyces - 1 bowl
• 1/2 cup of Roselle extract
• Honey 1 tbsp.
• Maltose 2 tbsp.
• Brown sugar 1 tbsp.
• Lime Juice 1 tbsp.

Preparation:

1. Blend cooked Roselle Calyces into creamy form.
2. Squeeze lime juice and set aside.


Method:

1. Add Roselle extract and blended Roselle Calyces in pot and cook with low heat for 15 mins.

2. Add in honey, maltose and lime juice. Stir and mixed well and continue cooking till dry into jams form.

3. Remove from heat. Keep aside and till cool. Place them into the Jam container and keep in fridge.

Done and enjoy it!


to be continued...