Postpartum

Yam & Chicken Soup

Name: Yam & Chicken Soup
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2 servings

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MINS

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SERVINGS

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Easy

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#protein

#chinese

#soup

#confinement

A gentle, non-heating confinement soup — chicken simmered with yam; spleen-friendly protein, clear and digestible, milder than heavy tonics for recovery.

MumEat recipe

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Nutritional Highlights

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43%

DAILY RDI

Protein

30.8g

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23%

DAILY RDI

Zinc

2.6mg

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DAILY RDI

Iron

2.4mg

+ 4 more nutrients

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Why This Recipe?

🌸 Traditional Wisdom

Yam chicken soup is a gentle, non-heating nourishing soup in confinement.

🔬 Modern Science

Chicken gives quality protein, yam supports the spleen with digestible starch and mucoproteins — clear-simmered and gentle for recovery.

⚠️Moderate evidence

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Instructions

3 steps

Blanch chicken; peel and cut yam.

Simmer chicken with ginger 50 min.

Add yam, simmer 15 min more, season.

💡山药后放保持绵糯。

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Full Nutrition Breakdown

🩸Iron

9%(2.4mg)

☀️Vitamin D

1%(0.2µg)

💪Protein

43%(30.8g)

Vitamin C

6%(5.3mg)

Zinc

23%(2.6mg)

Calcium

3%(30mg)

Folate

6%(36.3µg)

* % based on pregnancy daily reference intake (RDI)

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References

[1] 中国营养学会.《中国哺乳期妇女膳食指南2022》.

哺乳期需充足优质蛋白，清炖汤品利于消化。

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