Luo Han guo (Medicine term as Siraitia grosvenorii), in Chinese, 罗汉果, is a natural sweet fruit which often used as medicinal herbs by Chinese physician.
Luo Han guo made into form of beverages, especially herbal tea.We do not usually use the raw green fruit to cook herbal tea, but get the dried one which has turned into dark brown fruit with hard thin shell. This low-caloric ‘fruit of medicine’ helps to detoxify body, and hence, some even claimed for its slimming effect, if consume it on regular basis. Slimming effect! wow. Girls, you might want to try this at home hehehe. Well not only for slimming actually, some drink it regularly mainly to maintain general health so as to eliminate heat in the body which may lead to fever to some people.
Ingredients
3-4 whole Luo han guo (罗汉果)
50 grams of sugared winter melon strips
3500ml – 4000ml of water
Optional:
2 tablespoons of dried longan (桂圆 aka 龙眼肉干）
Method:
1) Boil a large pot of water over high fire. When boiled, reduce heat to low fire.
2) Briefly rinse the out shell of each Luohan Guo and crush its
thin shell with bare hands before adding into the simmering water. All
fleshy pulps and seeds as well as the briefly crushed shells are to be
added into the boil. Then, add in the dried longan, if opted.
3) Cover lid and simmer the drink for 10 minutes, the herbal drink will appear blackish in colour, by then. Add in winter melon strips. Continue to simmer for another 10 minutes before heat off. Serve warm or chilled.
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