Asian pear / snow pear

雪梨

clears heatmoistens the lungsresolves phlegm生津燥咳、聲沙咽乾恩物

A crisp, juicy Asian pear with pale skin and snowy flesh, cored and cut with the peel on for the pot. Slow simmering draws out a delicate sweetness that defines autumn moistening soups and sweet waters with apple, fig or almond kernels.

TCM properties

Nature · cooling　Flavour · sweet、sour　Meridians · lung、stomach

Traditional food therapy

In Cantonese food therapy snow pear is used to clear heat, moisten the lungs, transform phlegm and generate fluids, the traditional answer to autumn dryness, a parched throat and a strained voice.

Cautions: read first

Take care with a cold cough (thin, clear white phlegm) or a weak, cold spleen and stomach

Preparation

Core it and cut into pieces with the skin on.

Origin

Hebei is the famous source (Xuehua pear from Zhaoxian and Ya pear from Botou). Australian Asian pears (nashi) are locally grown and substitute well

Availability in Australia

Easy to find

Pairs well with

Apple Tendrilleaf fritillary bulb Sea coconut slices Dried fig Sweet apricot kernel Bitter apricot kernel Candied honey date Bamboo sugarcane (thin green cane)Water chestnut Monk fruit Honey