Vegan Chinese Papaya Soup with Black Eyed Peas 木瓜花生眉豆雪耳湯素食

Vegan Chinese Papaya Soup with Black Eyed Peas 木瓜花生眉豆雪耳湯(素食) is the perfect Spring Season soup. It has the effect of removing dampness, invigorating the spleen and invigorating Qi. The humid climate in Spring can easily lead to eczema flare-ups and "Spring Sleepiness" or stagnation. Also, this soothing vegetarian Chinese soup is aids digestion and heat reduction and moisturizes the lungs.

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• When To Make Vegan Chinese Papaya Soup with Black Eyed Peas
• Foods That Strengthen The Spleen and Remove Dampness
• Vegetarian Green Papaya Soup Benefits
• Papaya and Black Eye Peas Soup Ingredients
• Health Benefits of Chinese Herbs
• Can I Use Candied Dates 蜜棗?
• Why Do Vegans Use Cashews?
• Papayas: Big Breast Food
• Does Papayas Help Boost Breastmilk Production?
• Is It Safe To Eat Papayas During Pregnancy?
• Other Papaya Recipes
• How To Make Green Papaya Soup with Black Eye Peas
• Cooking Times
• What To Serve With Papaya Soup
• Chinese Papaya Soup with Black Eyed Peas (Vegan) 木瓜花生眉豆雪耳湯素食

When To Make Vegan Chinese Papaya Soup with Black Eyed Peas

The weather in Spring is humid and stagnate, which can easily lead to two eczema flare-ups and "Spring Sleepiness." Feeling lethargic and lack of energy is the result of dampness being trapped. Therefore, removing dampness is crucial to strengthening the spleen.

The main ingredients of this soup recipe include not only papayas and Chinese herbs such as black eye peas, raw coix seeds, red dates, and aged dried tangerine peels.

Snow fungus and cashews are used to make this vegan vegetarian soup rich in plant collagen and so creamy and flavorful. 

Foods That Strengthen The Spleen and Remove Dampness

Foods that strengthen the spleen and remove dampness include sweet potatoes, yam, chestnuts, malted grain beverages and other bitter-sweet foods. 

Vegetarian Green Papaya Soup Benefits

In addition to removing excess water retention in the body, this easy Chinese soup recipe straightens the lungs, resolves phlegm, hydrates and moisturizes the digestive system. Health benefits also include nourishing and regulating blood flow and tonify Qi.

Papaya and Black Eye Peas Soup Ingredients

This traditional Chinese recipe is an easy soup recipe that can be quickly prepared. The main ingredients in this delicious soup include easy to digest proteins and nutrients.

• Papaya
• Black Eye Peas
• Raw Peanuts (optional, ok to omit if allergic)
• Organic Raw Cashews (optional, ok to omit if allergic)
• Aged Dried Tangerine Peel
• Dried Figs
• Red Dates
• Raw Coix Seeds
• Corn (optional)
• Carrots (optional)
• Salt to taste

Health Benefits of Chinese Herbs

Black Eye Peas 眉豆

The leguminous plant kidney bean seed provides high-quality protein eggs that are easy to digest and absorb. It has an appropriate amount of carbohydrates and various vitamins, such as Vitamin B1. Vitamin B1 is responsible for maintaining the function of normal digestive gland secretion and gastrointestinal motility, helping digestion and increasing appetite. Mei Dou treats heat-dampness, vomiting and diarrhea, and spleen deficiency and is an ideal food for diabetics.

眉豆 健脾化湿、脾虚呕逆、 化湿消暑、治疗水肿、水停消渴。

Figs 無花果

Fig benefits are plentiful. Fig fruits are very nutritious, high in antioxidants and low in calories. This ancient fruit is sweet and neutral to warm in nature. It targets the lung, stomach, and large Intestines meridians. Dried figs in Chinese soup recipes are typically used to clear heat, thirst quench, promote the secretion of body fluids, moisten and tonifies the stomach and large intestines, detox, and reduce inflammation.

無花果營養功效幫助消化、清熱潤肺、止咳、抗癌、養顏美容、改善血管和心臟健康、潤燥消積。

Raw Coix Seed 生薏米

It has the appearance of a deep concave on one side. Its primary characteristics are removing dampness and wind - suitable to drink during Spring. Its nature is cold and suitable for people with a hot body. Raw coix seeds invigorate the spleen, relieve diarrhea, and improve spleen and intestinal pain.

外型一邊有深凹位，細粒。祛濕除風，春天飲用較合時。生薏米性寒。 健脾止瀉、利尿、改善脾風濕脾痛和腸痛。

Snow Fungus (Tremella Fuciformis) 雪耳

This dried fungus is inherently sweet in taste and helps to tonifies Yin deficiencies. It promotes meridian affinity by moistening the stomach, kidney and lungs.

In beauty, tremella fuciformis enhances skin hydration and has anti-aging properties and antioxidant effects that prevent cell damage by free radicals. This is a very safe ingredient and can be eaten freely as food.

For Vegan recipes, Snow Fungus is rich in plant collagen which makes it an excellent meat substitution.

潤肺止咳、潤膚、 肝脏解毒 、清热健胃 、增加免疫力。

Red Dates Jujube 紅棗

Red dates are sweet, warm, and enter the heart, spleen, and stomach meridians. It tonifies and improves the digestive system's motility. Choose unpitted red dates because their seeds calm the mind and promote relaxation.

Red dates are highly nutritious and rich in Vitamin C and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and magnesium. You also see many marketing products promoting relaxation and reducing stress, highlighting magnesium.

Jujube also helps restore the yin-yang disharmony of hormones with blood deficiency postpartum. New mothers typically exhibit a drastic drop in both progesterone and estrogen levels. Red dates replenish blood deficiency, malnourished and disturbed heart-mind, and repair broken sleep.

Those who belong to heat-type constitutions can also add chrysanthemums to this tea to reduce the heatiness. I find the floral addition particularly pleasing!! 

“一日吃三枣，青春不显老。” 紅棗甘甜、溫熱，可進入心脾胃經，養血安神，治療失眠。

Dried Chinese Mandarin Peel 陳皮

Aged tangerine peel is soothing and normalizes your meridians. It helps relieves cold and reduces phlegm, congestion and stagnation of Qi. It improves digestion, reduces dampness and promotes spleen functions. Choose dried Chinese mandarin peels that are well-aged.

温经通络、散寒化痰、 理气健脾，燥湿化痰，治咳嗽。對於一些咳嗽痰多、噁心、腹脹或者是食慾不振的患者俱有很好的作用。

Papaya 木瓜

The sweetness of the papaya is soothing. Papaya strengthens the spleen and stomach, helping digestion, clearing the heat, quenching thirst, and lowering blood pressure. 

Papayas have an excellent source of Vitamin C, A and B-complex source and contain large amounts of soluble dietary fibre.

There are two papaya varieties unripe green papaya and ripe orange papaya. When making soup, it is recommended that you use unripe papaya and avoid using ripe papaya. Ripe papaya is best enjoyed and eaten as fruit. 

木瓜有健脾胃、助消化、通兩便、清暑解渴、降血壓的功效。

木瓜，分有兩個品種，宣木瓜屬於藥物供藥用；番木瓜屬水果類供食用。

煲湯時建議大家用較生或半生熟的番木瓜來煲。

Peanuts 花生

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), peanuts are sweet and neutral in temperature. They are rich in healthy fats, nourishing the blood, spleen, and lungs and moisturizing the skin. It also helps regulate water and resolve phlegm, tonify qi and blood. 

花生性平，味甘，入脾、肺经。 醒脾和胃、润肺化痰、滋养调气、清咽止咳。 

Can I Use Candied Dates 蜜棗? 

While large dried dates are frequently used in Chinese soups, blood-nourishing red dates are used instead of candied dates in this Green Papaya Soup. 

Candied dates are made with a lot of sugar. Sugar increases the dampness and heat in the body.

Using dried dates will reduce the medicinal food therapy of this Chinese herbal soup recipe.

Why Do Vegans Use Cashews?

Cashews are excellent ingredients to make creamy vegetable soup recipes. Because cashews are high in fats, they are fantastic at producing a creamy texture. Cashews are neutral in flavour with sweet tasting notes.

Opt for a vegetarian traditional Chinese Papaya Soup option with cashews while still enjoying rich fibre, heart-healthy fats, and plant protein.

Pro Tip: if you want to make soups creamy without dairy or meat, cashews are an excellent choice!

Papayas: Big Breast Food

A while ago, Taiwanese people were crazy about this green papaya soup. Young women and girls during puberty believed that eating green papayas would grow larger breasts and a more voluptuous curved body.

Does Papayas Help Boost Breastmilk Production?

Postpartum women would also eat green or unripe papaya, increasing oxytocin production, which boosts breastmilk production and milk supply during the confinement period.

Papaya also contains carotenoids, beta-carotene and Vitamin A in nursing mothers. Breast milk is indeed vegan. You can breastfeed if you follow a vegan, vegetarian diet.

Is It Safe To Eat Papayas During Pregnancy? 

While you can eat ripe papaya throughout the trimesters, it is crucial to avoid eating unripe papaya during pregnancy (or if you are trying to become pregnant!)

Unripe papaya contains a latex substance that may cause uterus contractions and pose a risk of miscarriage.

Some pregnant women choose to eliminate all papayas from their diet.

Other Papaya Recipes

• Papaya Snow Fungus Sweet Soup (hot or cold dessert)
• Thai Green Papaya Salad with Vegan Fish Sauce.

How To Make Green Papaya Soup with Black Eye Peas

Wash and rinse Chinese herbs (black eye peas, raw coix seeds, red dates, raw peanuts, raw organic cashews, snow fungus, and aged dried tangerine peel). 

Soak black eye peas, raw coix seeds, red dates, and peanuts for 20 minutes in a small bowl to remove traces of impurities. This will help remove dust and debris. Rinse and set aside.  

Soak snow fungus in a small bowl. Once the snow fungus has resuscitated, cut the hard ends off with scissors. 

Also, soak aged, dried tangerine peel separately in a small bowl. Take a small teaspoon once the orange peel softens and scrape off the white pith. This will remove the bitterness. 

Wash fruits and vegetables.

Cut the ends off the green papaya and cut lengthwise to remove the seeds. You do not need to peel the skin.

Cut the papaya into smaller pieces.

Cut dried figs in half.

Pro Tip: Add corn and carrots to the soup for extra sweetness. 

Add all ingredients into a large pot filled with enough water to cover. 

Bring water to a boil at high heat. 

After the soup comes to a rolling boil, reduce heat to low-medium heat and boil for 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes, reduce heat to low, cover the pot with a lid, and simmer for 2 to 3 hours. 

Checking occasionally to ensure the pot of soup does not dry out!

The papaya soup should look white and creamy. 

Season with salt to taste

Enjoy, and don't forget to eat the papaya chunks! They are sooo good!

Cooking Times

• Stove Top - 3 hours
• Slow cooker - 3 hours
• Pressure cooker - 1 hour

What To Serve With Papaya Soup

• Chinese Braised Eggplant 紅燒茄子
• Air Fryer Cauliflower 氣炸鍋菜花
• Osmanthus Flower Jelly with Goji Berry 桂花糕

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