"The sun is coming and going back, and the plants and trees are gradually growing and sprouting." On December 22, one of the four seasons and eight festivals will be held, and the winter solstice is also an important festival in winter.
Since ancient times, people have regarded the winter solstice as an auspicious day. also has the saying among the people that "the winter solstice is as big as the year". After the arrival of the winter solstice, it will also symbolize the official entry of , the test of the cold winter has just begun. It’s cold and cold during the cold days. We should pay more attention to a reasonable diet, obtain sufficient nutrition from the food, and replenish the body’s energy and yang energy, so that the whole cold winter can be more comfortable.
For men who bear the heavy responsibility of family and work, they often do things perfunctorily at three meals a day. In the long run, it will easily affect their own condition. The winter solstice is approaching. It is recommended that men: eat 4 more dishes of "sung-boosting dishes" without shortage of money to strengthen their body and strengthen their body and live the cold winter easily.
1. Lamb soup
As early as the traditional Chinese medicine classic "Compendium of Materia Medica" written for more than 400 years, the Ming Dynasty Medicine Saint Li Shizhen mentioned the benefits of eating mutton in winter. " Lamb can warm the middle and replenish the deficiency, replenish the middle and replenish qi, enhance the appetite and strengthen the kidney qi, nourish the gallbladder and improve eyesight, treat deficiency and coldness, five labor and seven injuries." Drinking some mutton soup around the winter solstice can drive away the cold and keep warm, and help the body's yang energy rises.
[Recommended recipe: radish stewed lamb soup]
[Cooking tips] radish with mutton stewed soup can neutralize the mutton smell contained in the mutton, making the mutton soup more refreshing and not greasy.
1. Wash the lamb chops, put cold water in the pot, put a few slices of ginger, boil after the foam is boiled, then remove them and wash; peel the radish and wash them into hot cut pieces;
2. Pour the blanched lamb chops into the soup pot, add appropriate amount of hot water, then add a few slices of ginger and scallion slices, boil over high heat, turn to low heat and cook for 1 hour, then add radish, and cook for another 30 minutes. Add appropriate amount of salt and white pepper before leaving the pot, and sprinkle with chopped green onion and coriander.
2. Fish
Around the winter solstice, it is also a good time to eat fish, such as sea bass , crucian carp , bighead fish, etc. This html season fish meat is fat, tender and delicious, and is rich in a variety of vitamins and mineral elements. Compared with other meat, is easier to digest and absorb by the human body, and also has the characteristics of high protein and low fat.
[Recommended recipe: Fish Head Tofu Soup ]
[Cooking Tips] Stew the soup with fish head. Be sure to put it in the pan and fry it for a while, then pour in boiling water and stew it, so that the boiled soup will turn milky white.
1. Clean the fish, wipe the water on the surface with kitchen paper , then heat the pan and add oil, add a few slices of ginger to stir-fry, then add the fish head, fry on low heat until golden on both sides;
2. Pour appropriate amount of hot water into the pot, cook over high heat for 5 minutes, add the cut pieces of tofu, cook for another 15 minutes, then add appropriate amount of salt and white pepper to taste, sprinkle with coriander, and then come out of the pot.
3. Sweet potato
Modern people are used to eating various fine staple foods, but they ignore the traditional dietary wisdom of "grains are nourished, mixed grains nourishment". Sweet potatoes are typical grains and grains. Li Shizhen also specifically mentioned the sweet potato in "Compendium of Materia Medica". "Sweet potatoes have the effects of replenishing deficiency, nourishing qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and strengthening kidney yang."
[Recommended recipe: Sweet potato ginger sugar water]
[Cooking tips] Use sweet potatoes to cook sugar water. If you pursue a clear soup base, use old rock sugar; if you want to have a stronger sweetness, use old brown sugar.
1. Peel and wash the sweet potatoes and cut them into pieces; then add a small piece of ginger and cut them into thin slices. If you are not used to the astringent taste of ginger, you can remove the ginger skin;
2. Pour the processed sweet potatoes and ginger into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, turn to low heat and cook for 20 minutes, then add appropriate amount of old rock sugar, and cook for another 5 minutes, then turn off the heat.
4, black bean
"Black enters the kidney", "replenishes every black", " replenishes shape " and other views all come from the dietary teachings of ancestors handed down from generation to generation , which says that black food has high nutritional value and can also correspond to the five internal organs of the human body according to its shape. Black beans are natural black foods, which resemble the kidneys. Don’t forget to arrange them before and after the winter solstice.
[Recommended recipe: Black bean, black sesame pulp]
[Cooking tips] For those who love sweets, you can add a few extra pitted red dates before pressing the pulp, or add a little rock sugar.
1. Prepare 30 grams of quick-cooked oatmeal, 30 grams of black beans, 20 grams of black sesame , pour them together into soy milk maker or wall breaker ;
2. Pour appropriate amount of water into the machine, enable the "grain soy milk" function, and squeeze all ingredients into a thick slurry.
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