However, even in the summer solstice, due to the great latitude span between the north and the south of China, the climate varies greatly from place to place. For example, the southeast region is hot and there are many showers; The Yangtze River Delta region is rainy, with high temperature and rain; Although it is very hot in North China, it only rains occasionally. As for the north, Liaoning and Jilin just entered the summer, and Heilongjiang randomly switched between spring, summer and autumn.
Therefore, the summer solstice diet is also particular, and it cannot be generalized. Need to adapt to local conditions.
It is very hot in the north in the summer of solstice. At this time, the diet in the north should be based on strengthening the spleen to help transport, digestion and stagnation. It's hot and rainy in the south, so the diet should be mainly based on the food of benefiting qi and nourishing yin, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.
On the solstice of summer, friends in the north choose to make a pot of Chenpi tea and eat some yam and pumpkin porridge to help digestion and strengthen the spleen and stomach. Friends in the south can drink Qingbuliang soup and eat red bean and barley porridge, which has a good effect of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis.
Of course, if you want to be more in line with the solar terms, you can try the Herbal Diet Guide for Health in Summer and the North-South Cake provided by the Chinese Herbal Diet Research Association.
To the south, southerners want to eat cold noodles with Chinese wolfberry and mushrooms. Cold noodles with astragalus and mushrooms are made of Polygonatum sibiricum, Lycium barbarum, flour and mushrooms.
The specific steps are as follows:
Composition:
5g of Polygonatum sibiricum, 6g of Lycium barbarum, 0g of flour100g, 5g of Lentinus edodes.
Production method:
1. Wash Lentinus edodes, cook with Polygonatum sibiricum and Lycium barbarum, and take soup for later use. Separate Lentinus edodes, Polygonatum sibiricum and Lycium barbarum for later use.
2. Knead the flour evenly with Polygonatum juice, roll the noodles or Lamian Noodles into thin strips, put them in a boiling soup pot, keep stirring, cook for 5 minutes, add a little cold water, keep stirring, repeat several times, turn off the fire, take out the noodles and put them in cold water.
3. Take out the noodles and put them in a bowl, add mushrooms, Polygonatum sibiricum and Lycium barbarum, pour in sesame paste and stir, add a proper amount of shredded onion, shredded ginger and shredded garlic, add vinegar and salt to taste and mix well, and pour in a little sesame oil.
4. Pour a proper amount of noodle soup into a bowl and mix well to serve. It tastes salty and fragrant.
Efficacy: benefiting qi and nourishing yin, clearing fire and promoting fluid production.
Suitable for people: people who sweat a lot in summer, especially during the day, are thirsty, tired and prone to lie down.
Not suitable for the crowd: people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold can't resist cold, people with excessive qi activity and cold and dampness in their stomachs.
On the other hand, Beibing refers to a spleen-strengthening cake made of jujube, endothelium corneum Gigeriae Galli, dried ginger, flour, pumpkin and eggs.
Composition:
5 grams of red dates, 5 grams of chicken gizzard-membrane (fried), 3 grams of dried ginger, 200 grams of flour, 25 grams of pumpkin, and egg 1.
Production method:
1. Put the jujube in the pot, add a proper amount of water, boil it with strong fire, then simmer 1 hour, discard the jujube pit, leaving water and jujube meat.
2. Peel and steam the pumpkin and make it into chopped melon.
3. Grind Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli and Zingiberis Rhizoma into powder, mash jujube meat, and mix with jujube water, chopped pumpkin, egg, xylitol and flour to make dough.
4. Divide into 8 cookies and bake them regularly until they are brown and crisp, and eat them as snacks. It tastes sweet and fragrant.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and qi, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion.
Suitable crowd: people with symptoms such as loss of appetite, abdominal distension, loose stool, diarrhea and mental fatigue caused by weakness of spleen and stomach. Suitable for all ages.
Another trick is that when summer comes, you can put more onions, ginger and garlic when cooking. The vitamin C content in onion is 10 times higher than that in apple and 2 times higher than that in orange. Onions also contain allicin, which has a strong bactericidal effect. Garlic also has a strong bactericidal ability, especially when making cold salad, and it is an indispensable seasoning dish. "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer" is a dietary custom left by the ancients. Eating ginger in summer can stimulate appetite, stop vomiting, promote blood circulation and dispel cold. Want to know how to put onion, ginger and garlic better and more effective? You can watch my previous video "Onion, ginger and garlic are rich in nutrition and have many benefits. How to put them in cooking to taste better and healthier? "I see!