So, what should I eat in winter? As the saying goes, "Ten miles apart, and hundreds of miles apart" has different eating habits. However, the old saying goes, "Don't eat from time to time", eat according to the season and make you healthier. I suggest you: No matter whether you have money or not, eat more "3 white and 3 black" to keep warm and nourishing your health as soon as possible.
Eat more 3 black
The climate is cold in winter, eat more black food , and use to nourish kidney qi . Because in traditional Chinese medicine theory, black enters the kidney meridian , which has the effect of enhancing kidney qi, strengthening muscles and bones, and prolonging life. As the saying goes, "comply with the time" .
1. Black Sesame - Replenish the essence and blood
Recommended method: [ Sweet Potato Cake ]
1. Prepare a sweet potato to peel off the outer skin, break it from the middle, cut it into even slices and put it in a steamer. After boiling the water, put it in the steamer and steam it for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, pour the sweet potatoes into a basin, add sugar to stir according to your own taste, stir the sweet potatoes into fine sweet potato puree , add 10 grams of honey, stir well, and let stand and cool for later use.
2. To the cooled sweet potato puree, add 100 grams of glutinous rice flour and 30 grams of flour. The flour and starch are mainly used to increase the combined strength of sweet potato puree. Don’t need too much to avoid affecting the sweet taste of sweet potatoes. Stir them together and knead them into a soft dough for later use.
3. Take an appropriate amount of dough, make a ball in the palm of your hand, put it in a box containing black sesame seeds, wrap it evenly with black sesame seeds, flatten the balls, and the green cakes of the sweet potato cakes are ready.
4. electric baking pan preheat for 3 minutes, brush evenly with vegetable oil, put the prepared green bodies into the pot, cover the pot and bake for 2 minutes. After 2 minutes, evenly drizzle vegetable oil on the crust to lock the moisture inside the cake to prevent baking. After turning the cake over, bake it for another three minutes. When both sides of the cake are golden brown, you can come out of the pot.
2. Black Bean - nourish the kidney and nourish the blood
Recommended method: [Yam Black Bean Cake]
1. Cut 1 iron stick yam into even long sections, peel off the skin and soak it in clean water. Soaking can prevent hysteresis and blackening of yam .
2. 50 grams of black beans and 50 grams of red beans, soak them in clean water the first day in advance. Soaking can reduce the cooking time.
3. Boil water in a pot, put the soaked black beans and red beans into the pot. After the water boils, turn to low heat and cook for 30 minutes. Cook the black beans and red beans and soften them. After 30 minutes, turn off the heat and remove it and set aside.
4. Boil water in the pot, put grate , put the yam into the pot, boil the water on high heat, steam it for 15 minutes, steam it after steaming for 15 minutes, and then take it out and put it in a basin. Press it with a spoon to form a yam paste and put it in a bowl. Add two spoons of white sugar, a little vegetable oil and mix well, add red beans and black beans and mix well.
5. Prepare a plate and spread a layer of plastic wrap. Apply a layer of vegetable oil on the chopping board. The vegetable oil can prevent the yam from sticking to the chopping board and not being able to be picked up. Take out an appropriate amount of yam paste and flatten it with a mold to cut out different shapes and place it on the plate. The remaining raw materials are also prepared according to this method. This healthy and nutritious snack yam black bean cake is ready.
3. Black fungus - Moisturize and strong
Recommended method: [Small fried fungus]
1. Prepare an appropriate amount of dry fungus, soak it in clean water for an hour, soak it softly, clean it, remove the roots and cut it into thin strips; cut a few millet peppers in half, cut the garlic into slices, wash the shallots and cut it into pieces for later use.
2. Cut 300 grams of lean pork into shreds and put them in a basin. Add a little salt and water to knead for a while, pour in a little cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, stir in one direction until the shredded pork becomes sticky, grab a small pinch of starch, lock in the moisture in the shredded pork, then pour in a little vegetable oil, grind well and marinate for 10 minutes.
3. Heat the pot, add vegetable oil to the smoothing pan, after sliding the pot, pour out the hot oil and add cool oil, add garlic slices and millet peppers to stir-fry, pour in fungus to medium heat for 1 minute, pour water a few more times when stir-frying to avoid the water evaporating and not crispy enough, stir-fry with soft and brighten the fungus and pour in an appropriate amount of water.
4. Add 2 grams of salt and 2 grams of pepper, boil over high heat, cover the pot and simmer for 2 minutes, so that the fungus can be fully softened and tasted. After 2 minutes, add shredded pork and stir-fry together. After the shredded pork is cooked, add 2 grams of chicken essence, add in the scallion segments and continue stir-frying for a while. After smelling the fragrance of the scallion, you can come out of the pot. This simple, home-cooked stir-fried black fungus is ready.
Eat more 3 white
The biggest feature in winter is "dry" , which more or less cough , get angry, and get stuck in the nose , which is easy to cause damage to the lungs . "Lung diseases are caused by all diseases." Among the five colors of , white belongs to lung . Therefore, if you nourish the lungs, you should eat more white food , which is beneficial to health preservation in winter.
1. White radish - Resolve phlegm and clear heat
Recommended method: [Sprite pickled radish]
1. Prepare one fruit radish , cut it off the outer slices, first cut it into thick slices and then cut it into square diced; half a carrot is also cut into square diced, and put it together with radish ; cut a lemon into small pieces, a few stitches, and a handful of millet peppers, cut it into small pieces, put it in clean water and wash it.
2. Dry the green and red peppers and pour together the water with the radish, add sugar and white vinegar, because the radish is sweet and sour, you can add more sugar and vinegar, and then pour in an appropriate amount of Sprite. The amount of Sprite must be less than the radish, so that the pickled taste will be even. Stir with chopsticks and evenly melt the sugar.
3. In this process, do not even have raw water or oil in the ingredients or container, otherwise it will easily deteriorate. Finally, cover it with plastic wrap, seal it and marinate it for 1 hour and then eat it. This refreshing and appetizing Sprite pickled radish is ready.
2. Lily - Moisturize the lungs and relieve cough
Recommended method: [ Fried lily with celery ]
1. Prepare an appropriate amount of fresh lily, cut off both ends and beat them apart, put them in clean water to wash the mud and sand. It is best to soak for a while, the taste will be sweeter; scrape off the rough fiber on the surface, break the larger ones, and cut it into small pieces with an oblique knife; cut some pepper slices for later use.
2. Add an appropriate amount of salt, sugar, chicken powder, a little water starch in the bowl, add a little water, and add a little sesame oil to increase the aroma and brighten it. Stir and melt and set aside.
3. Boil half a pot of boiling water, add a little salt and vegetable oil to facilitate the taste and maintain the green color. Put celery in and blanch it quickly for 10 seconds, then add lily and colored pepper , take it out immediately after a little blanch, put it in cold water and cool it, so that the taste will be crisper.
4. Add clean oil to the pot, add green onion and ginger to stir-fry, pour the ingredients into the pot, stir-fry quickly over high heat for 10 seconds, pour in the sauce and turn it evenly, and you can come out of the pot. This crisp and refreshing stir-fried lily with celery is ready.
3.Snow pear - moisten the lungs and reduce fire
Recommended method: [Rock Sugar Snow pear]
1. First, soak Tremella in cold water for 1 hour. After soaking, remove the yellow hard roots and cut them into small pieces. Tremella must be soaked in cold water for the taste to be crisp. Soaking it in hot water is softer and not easy to produce glue.
2. Prepare a pear, remove the pear core and cut it into slices; put 30 grams of rock sugar into a bowl, and add an appropriate amount of osmanthus sauce . Both pears and osmanthus can make the stewed soup more warm and fragrant; then prepare an appropriate amount of rice wine to set aside.
3. Boil more water in the pot, add cold water to tremella and cook slowly. After the water boils, pour in pears, rock sugar and osmanthus, cook until the water boils again and beats the foam in the pot, and simmer over low heat for about an hour. Do not be impatient when making tremella soup.
4. Only by simmering over low heat can you fully stew the collagen inside. When the time is over, let’s take a look. The Tremella soup has become sticky, crystal clear in color, and the soup is rich. At this time, pour the rice wine in to allow the aroma of the lees to fully blend with the Tremella soup. This warm and nourishing Tremella soup can be served.
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