Eat more chestnuts in winter.
There are many ways to eat chestnuts. You can eat them raw, cook porridge, stir-fry or stew chicken. They are not only nutritious, but also delicious. Chestnuts can also be used for frequent urination and soreness of waist and legs caused by kidney deficiency: 30g chestnuts, cooked with strong fire, and eaten in the morning and evening 1 time. Chestnut has a nourishing effect on human body, and it is better to eat in winter. Chestnut can be compared with ginseng, Radix Astragali and Radix Angelicae Sinensis, and it has a good curative effect on kidney deficiency, so it is also called "the fruit of kidney", especially for the elderly with kidney deficiency and diarrhea. Regular eating can strengthen the body and recover after illness.
Chestnut is rich in starch, protein, vitamins and other nutrients, known as the king of dried fruits. Chestnuts can replace grain in some places, and are called "hardcore crops" and "woody grain" together with dates and persimmons. Chestnut is a cheap and nutritious tonic. Chestnuts chestnuts are difficult to digest. Don't eat too much at a time, otherwise your stomach will be full.
Suitable for people to introduce chestnuts.
1. Suitable for the crowd: people with kidney deficiency are more suitable to eat chestnuts, especially chestnuts are suitable for middle-aged and elderly people with backache, leg weakness and frequent urination; Suitable for elderly patients with bronchitis, cough and asthma, and diarrhea due to internal cold;
2. Taboo population: diabetics should not eat; Infants, people with weak spleen and stomach, people with dyspepsia and rheumatism should not eat more.
What are the ways to eat chestnuts?
Braised barley with chestnuts and yam
Ingredients: 40g chestnut, 40g coix seed, 40g yam, rock sugar 10g.
Exercise:
1. Wash yam, chestnut, coix seed and crystal sugar with clear water respectively.
2. Put the washed chestnuts and coix seed in a saucepan, add water, bring to a boil on the fire, cover it, stew for half an hour with low fire, remove the cover, then add yam and rock sugar, cover it, and continue to stew for about half an hour with low fire until the raw materials are cooked.
Chestnut red jujube black chicken soup
Ingredients: black-bone chicken 1, chestnut 500g, red jujube 100g, onion, ginger, astragalus, codonopsis pilosula and cooking wine.
Steps:
1. Wash the black-bone chicken, split it from the back, chop off the claw tip and wing tip, pat off the chicken neck bone, chicken leg bone, wing bone and spine with the back of a knife, and then cut it into pieces.
2. Blanch the black-bone chicken in boiling water for 5 minutes, and then remove the blood for later use.
3. Boil chestnuts in boiling water for 5 minutes, then shell and coat them for later use.
4. Prepare proper amount of onion, ginger, astragalus root and codonopsis pilosula.
5. Wash the dried red dates and soak for 5 minutes. You can remove the seeds to avoid getting angry.
6. Put the cold water into the casserole and bring it to a boil. Add black-bone chicken, onion, ginger slices, astragalus root, codonopsis pilosula, red dates, cooking wine or rice wine. After the fire boils, add chestnuts, cover the pot and simmer for about 1 hour.
Chestnuts are not only very suitable for men to tonify kidney, but also very beneficial to women, which can help women stop bleeding and nourish blood. People who eat chestnuts can also treat various diseases caused by riboflavin deficiency, such as angular stomatitis, glossitis, cheilitis and bursitis. Chestnut is a kind of food for both medicine and food. There are many ways to eat chestnut in life, whether it is used for stewing meat or stewing soup with other Chinese herbal medicines, it is very nourishing.