Chrysanthemum wine: It is brewed with chrysanthemum as raw material, glutinous rice and distiller's yeast. It was called "longevity wine" in ancient times. Its taste is cool and sweet, and it has the effects of nourishing liver and improving eyesight, strengthening brain and delaying aging.
Chrysanthemum porridge: use chrysanthemum and japonica rice to cook porridge, which is waxy and refreshing, can clear the heart and remove troubles, and is pleasing to the eye and dry.
Chrysanthemum tea: Tea made of chrysanthemum, with fragrant smell, can relieve summer heat, promote fluid production, dispel wind, moisten throat, nourish eyes and relieve hangover.
Chrysanthemum cake: mix chrysanthemums into rice pulp and steam them to make cakes, or make cakes with mung bean powder and chrysanthemums, which has the therapeutic effect of cooling and removing fire.
Chrysanthemum: Chrysanthemum slices are fried with pork and snake meat or cooked with fish and chicken. The meat is balanced, nourishing but not greasy, and refreshing. Can be used for treating dizziness and wind-heat disorder.
Chrysanthemum soup: use tremella or lotus seeds to cook or steam chrysanthemum into soup, and add a little rock sugar to clear away heat and benefit the five internal organs and treat dizziness.
[Traditional Efficacy] Chrysanthemum is a perennial herb in Compositae, and it is one of the commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in China. Its flower head is used as medicine. According to ancient records, chrysanthemum is sweet, bitter and slightly cold; There is a difference between wild chrysanthemum and domestic chrysanthemum, "but domestic varieties are better, and tonic is more than diarrhea;" Wild chrysanthemum tastes bitter, and diarrhea can not stop, that is, domestic chrysanthemum can clear liver and improve eyesight, and wild chrysanthemum can detoxify and disperse fire. Chrysanthemum is very effective, and Chinese medicine is often used to treat diseases such as red eyes, sore throat, tinnitus, wind-heat cold, headache, hypertension and carbuncle. If eaten for a long time, it also has the effects of "benefiting blood, making people fit and prolonging life". According to legend, Kang Fengzi and Zhu Ruzi in Fairy Tales all became immortals by eating chrysanthemums, so chrysanthemums are known as "the best of medicine and food homology".
[Medical Mechanism] Management analysis shows that chrysanthemum contains volatile oil, inulin, adenine, amino acids, choline, stachydrine, berberine, flavonoids, chrysanthemum pigment, vitamins, trace elements and other substances, which can resist pathogens and enhance capillary resistance; Among them, flavonoids have been proved to have a strong scavenging effect on free radicals, and have remarkable effects on antioxidation and anti-aging. From the point of view of nutrition, the essence of plants lies in flowers and fruits. Chrysanthemum petals contain 17 kinds of amino acids, among which glutamic acid, aspartic acid and proline are higher. In addition, it is rich in vitamins and trace elements such as iron, zinc, copper and selenium, which has incomparable functions for ordinary fruits and vegetables. Modern clinical medicine has also proved that chrysanthemum can dilate coronary artery, increase blood flow and lower blood pressure, and has a good effect on coronary heart disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and hypercholesterolemia.
[Others] Colored chrysanthemums are not only common materials for art and painting; It also has the special environmental protection function of absorbing industrial toxic gases and dust such as H2S, Cl2 and SO2. It can also absorb a lot of CO and release O2, which is one of the substances for urban greening. The noble chrysanthemum stands proudly. It has always been a symbol of human integrity. Known as one of the "Four Gentlemen", he has been admired and encouraged by China intellectuals for thousands of years.
"It is better to hold the incense on the branch and die than to blow it into the north wind." In the season of chill and withering flowers, only she stands proudly and perseveres; Considerable to admire, edible and medicinal, lamentable, chrysanthemum is indeed one of the most precious gifts given by God to mankind.
October, also known as "Chrysanthemum Moon", is the season when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, although the frost and dew are heavy.
Chrysanthemum is a common medicinal and edible flower. The habit of enjoying and eating chrysanthemums in China has lasted for thousands of years.
When dazzling chrysanthemums sway in the autumn wind, they can also be colorful on the dining table; Eye-catching and healthy.
In the history of China literature, there are countless works of chanting chrysanthemums, and the inseparable relationship between chrysanthemums and people's lives in China is clearly remembered in black and white. Chrysanthemum is known as "the guest of prolonging life". In addition to medicinal and ornamental purposes, many places have the custom of eating chrysanthemums. "If you drink Mulan in the morning, you will be exposed, and if you eat Qiuju at night, your English will not work." Qu Yuan's singing may be the earliest testimony of eating chrysanthemums. Later, a group of great poets such as Tao Yuanming, Li Qiao, Wang Wei and Zheng Banqiao also had chapters on eating chrysanthemums for health preservation. "Sit in Dongli and taste the flower feast, and a piece of Joan cream is fresh in the mouth." The taste of chrysanthemum and the joy of eating are self-evident.
Chrysanthemum is soft and refreshing, and it is a good dish. There are many ways to eat it, such as fresh food, dry food, raw food, cooked food, braised, steamed, boiled, fried, roasted and mixed, and shredded into stuffing. Chrysanthemum cake and chrysanthemum jiaozi have their own merits. Although there are many varieties of chrysanthemums, yellow and white chrysanthemums are mostly used for food, especially white chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemum morifolium, chrysanthemum morifolium in Huangshan and chrysanthemum morifolium in Fushan are all top grades.
It is a great enjoyment to let chrysanthemums bloom in your eyes and mouth in the crisp autumn season. "I'll come back at chrysanthemum time when I have a holiday on the mountain", chrysanthemum has been doomed for a thousand years. Let's spend the Double Ninth Festival lightly and watch the chrysanthemum flowers float slowly throughout the autumn. ...
■ Chrysanthemum tea
"Research the spring breeze, early back to the afternoon dream quite tea. The fragrant snow in Beiyuan is hard to find, and the buds are picked on the east fence. " Chamomile with pleasant fragrance is suitable for making tea, and white chrysanthemum produced in Suzhou and Hangzhou is the best choice. Chrysanthemum tea is fragrant and refreshing, and has the functions of dispelling wind and clearing heat, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure and dredging pulse. When you get up early, gently apply a cotton pad dipped in chrysanthemum tea juice around your eyes to eliminate dark circles. Chrysanthemum is also suitable for soaking in water with various flowers and teas, and the effect is more obvious, such as the following chrysanthemum teas.
□ Chrysanthemum hawthorn tea: Take chrysanthemum 10g, add hawthorn 10g and honeysuckle 10g instead of tea, which can reduce blood fat and blood pressure, lose weight and keep fit, and is suitable for patients with obesity, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.
□ Three kinds of scented tea: a little chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and jasmine. Soaking tea in water can clear away heat and detoxify. It is suitable for preventing and treating wind-heat cold, sore throat, carbuncle, etc. And even if you take it often, it can reduce the fire, and it has the effect of calming your mind and thinking quietly.
□ Chrysanthemum honey drink: 50 grams of chrysanthemum, 20 ml of water, simmer for 30 minutes, filter, add appropriate amount of honey, mix well and drink. Has the effects of nourishing liver, improving eyesight, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, clearing away heart fire, strengthening brain, and moistening intestine.
Methods: Make tea with about 3 ~ 5g chrysanthemum each time and drink it 2~3 times a day. Use glassware to hold chrysanthemum tea, add one or two jade butterflies and a few bamboo leaves; Air to 78 minutes of hot water; You can see that the tea leaves gradually turn yellow, and the petals of chrysanthemum are stretched out in clear water, clear and bright, and the fragrance is fragrant. Don't drink all the tea every time, leave about 1/3, and then add water to get the chrysanthemum fragrance.
■ Chrysanthemum wine
Chrysanthemum used for wine making was popular as early as the Han and Wei Dynasties. According to folklore, when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, their stems and leaves are collected together, brewed with grains, and stored until the second year of Chongyang for drinking. Chrysanthemum wine is cool and sweet, which is a good product for strengthening body and prolonging life. From a medical point of view, chrysanthemum wine can improve eyesight, cure dizziness, lower blood pressure, lose weight, lose weight, tonify liver qi, regulate stomach and nourish blood. Tao Yuanming said in his poem, "There is no shadow on the swallow, and the geese hear it. Wine can cure all diseases, and chrysanthemum can cure aging ",which is praising the role of chrysanthemum wine in eliminating diseases and prolonging life." Legend has it that drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival can also ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters.
Production: Wash and dry the dried chrysanthemum, soak it in low-alcohol grain wine, and drink it after one or two days. Regular drinking can promote blood circulation and qi circulation, resist aging and prolong life; If Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Fructus Lycii are added to the wine, it will have a good effect on dizziness, fatigue and dreaminess.
■ Chrysanthemum cake
Eating chrysanthemum cake is one of the customs of Chongyang. The word "cake" is homophonic with "high", which was originally used to compensate for not being able to climb mountains. But because this kind of cake is more Leng Xiang, calm and beautiful than ordinary cakes, it is particularly popular, so it has been handed down and there are many ways to do it. Let me introduce you to the simplest one.
Ingredients: 20~30 chrysanthemums, 200g water chestnut powder, fresh chrysanthemums 1 flower (chopped), and appropriate amount of rock sugar (the sweetness can be adjusted according to personal taste).
Practice: Boil the chrysanthemum with clear water for about 10 minute (wrap the chrysanthemum with gauze to avoid the trouble of slag separation). When the color is light yellow, don't cook it for too long, otherwise it will be slightly bitter. Take out chrysanthemum and add rock sugar to taste, the sweetness is slightly sweeter than normal, because adding horseshoe powder solution will dilute it. Add chopped fresh chrysanthemums. Water caltrop powder is dissolved in proper amount of water, poured into chrysanthemum water and steamed for about 15~20 minutes until it is completely transparent, so it can be eaten whether it is hot or cold. You can also add raisins, red and green silk, apricot meat and other small preserved fruit pieces or spread lemon slices in the sauce to increase the flavor. This kind of cake is sweet, soft and crisp, which melts in the mouth and leaves fragrance on the teeth and cheeks. Function: cool and remove fire.
Tips:
-Wash with salt water before eating, but don't soak for too long, so as not to destroy the organizational structure and nutritional flavor of chrysanthemum.
-Bitter barley-shaped like a chrysanthemum with thick dark green leaves. It tastes particularly bitter with mugwort and can't be eaten.
When drinking chrysanthemum tea, you can add sugar or rock sugar at will to add flavor and calm your mind.
-White chrysanthemums should be used to make tea, and small, yellowish chrysanthemums should be used.
□ The dosage and consumption of tea should not be too large. Whether the dosage is too large or taking it for too long, it will have toxic and side effects. This is especially obvious when drinking wild chrysanthemum tea.
Life link:
On the third night, there is a dream chrysanthemum as a pillow: there are many wild chrysanthemums in the suburbs, which can be collected and dried in the afternoon, put into gauze bags and stuffed into pillowcases. Has effects in preventing headache and dreaminess, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and lowering blood pressure. If used with mung bean and cassia seed, it can improve eyesight, so it is called "eyesight pillow".
□ Boil and wash chrysanthemum to coagulate fat: weigh several chrysanthemums, decoct them in water to get juice, pour them into the bathtub and add water to cool them. It can relieve summer heat, improve eyesight and refresh the mind, especially suitable for office white-collar workers and writers.
Weigh Flos Chrysanthemi, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Asari, Fructus Zanthoxyli, Fructus Gleditsiae Abnormalis, and Ramulus Cinnamomi (15-30g, depending on the amount of hair), decoct with water and wash your hair to prevent dandruff.
□ Collection of Double Ninth Festival customs: "Being a stranger alone in a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice during the festival, and I know where my brothers are climbing in the distance, and there is one less person everywhere." Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China, and we have collected many customs of this day to entertain everyone. Double Ninth Festival is a festival for the elderly. Don't forget to go home and see the old people at home that day. Chongyang is also called "Chrysanthemum Festival", and activities related to chrysanthemums are indispensable. There will be grand chrysanthemum banquets in chrysanthemum-producing areas such as Hangzhou, Kaifeng, Zhongshan (even Beijing), such as chrysanthemum-enjoying, drinking chrysanthemum tea, eating chrysanthemum cake, enjoying dogwood and hairpin chrysanthemum. Of course, we must climb high and look far, and pray for blessings for our loved ones; Huizhou and other places will also fly kites, so that kites can bring a year's longing and yearning to distant relatives.
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Chrysanthemum is really icing on the cake. Its thorough fragrance is even worse than vanilla, coriander and onion. Chrysanthemum is a famous dish in Cantonese cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine. Among the banquets in the name of flowers, the chrysanthemum banquet is also the most famous. Just listening to these vivid names, such as "Sweet-scented osmanthus fish crossing the bridge with chrysanthemum thick soup", "Preserved chrysanthemum flowers", "Five snakes stewed with chrysanthemum bamboo chicken", "Chicken with chrysanthemum dew fragrance", "Spring Nest with autumn chrysanthemum", "Duck stuffed with plum" and "Fresh chestnut soup with chrysanthemum", is enough to make you feel extraordinary and full of fragrance. Among all kinds of chrysanthemum dishes, nothing is more popular than "fried herring balls with chrysanthemum". There is also a beautiful legend: a long time ago, a group of refugees from the north settled in Guangdong because of the beautiful scenery in Xiangshan County. When they saw the delicious herring, they peeled off its clean meat, chopped it with a knife, stirred it into a sticky shape, and fried it into fish balls with traditional fried balls. Fish balls fried with peanuts are delicious and tender. I occasionally mix fish balls with fresh chrysanthemums that can be seen everywhere in the local area. It feels more fragrant and has a long aftertaste. So there is today's famous watch that makes people never tire of eating.
Are you excited? Picking chrysanthemums in the warm and lazy autumn sunshine, or frying or mixing, is cool and delicious. Here are some simple and nutritious chrysanthemum dishes (and general nutrition accounting that MM people pay attention to), please bring them to your table!
■ Chicken slices with chrysanthemum
Ingredients: fresh chrysanthemum petals 100g, half a catty of chicken breast, 2 eggs (with egg white), chicken soup 150g, salt 3g, rice wine 20g, onion, ginger, corn flour 20g, pepper 2g, white sugar 3g, sesame oil 3g and water starch 50g.
Making:
1. Remove the skin and tendons from the chicken breast and cut it into thin slices. Wash chrysanthemum petals gently with clear water, wash onions and ginger, and cut into nail pieces.
2. Add egg white, salt, yellow wine, monosodium glutamate, pepper and corn flour to the chicken slices, and then put them in a small bowl with salt, sugar, chicken soup, pepper, monosodium glutamate, water starch and sesame oil (a little) and mix well.
3. Heat the wok, add lard, when the oil is heated to 5 degrees, add chicken slices, spread them out, hold them up, and stir fry 50 grams of oil, a little onion and ginger, then add chicken slices and cook rice wine.
4. Stir the prepared sweat evenly and pour it into the pot. Stir a few times, then add chrysanthemum petals and stir well.
Features: Chicken is fresh, tender and refreshing, with the fragrance of chrysanthemum. It has the effects of nourishing five internal organs, dispelling wind and improving eyesight, nourishing blood and moistening face, and is called delicious in autumn.
Nutritional accounting: calories 885.9 calories protein 22.3 grams fat 26. 1 gram carbohydrate 123.8 grams.
■ Tri-color chrysanthemum silk
Ingredients: 250g cucumber, 0g carrot100g fresh chrysanthemum.
Practice: Shred cucumbers and carrots, and rinse chrysanthemums with salt and water. Blanch carrots with hot water, add seasonings such as salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil, and mix in shredded cucumber and chrysanthemum petals.
Features: rich in color, salty and refreshing. Rich in vitamins and water, it is a good dish in beauty beauty!
Nutritional accounting: calories 12 1.4 calories protein 3. 1 g fat 0.8 g carbohydrate12.9g.
■ shredded pork with chrysanthemum
Ingredients: one or two fresh chrysanthemums, 300g lean pork, eggs 1 piece.
Practice: remove petals from chrysanthemum, wash, shred lean meat, and mix well with egg white and starch. When the oil is 50% hot, add shredded pork, stir fry a few times quickly, then add chrysanthemum, add salt and stir fry evenly. When it is cooked, take it out of the pot and put it in a white jade plate. You can soak the tender pork slices in sucrose first, and the taste is better.
Features: the meat is tender, the flowers are overflowing and radiant. Nourishing liver and blood, pleasing color, clearing away heat and improving eyesight.
Nutrition accounting: calories 968.9 calories protein 67.6 grams fat 23.2 grams carbohydrate 6.8 grams.
■ Chrysanthemum pork liver soup
There are two ways. Firstly, prepare pig liver 100g, fresh chrysanthemum 12 and appropriate amount of oil, salt and wine, cleaning pig liver, slicing, and pickling with oil and wine10min; Wash fresh chrysanthemums and take petals for later use. First put the chrysanthemum in a clear water pot for a while, then add the pig liver and cook for 20 minutes to taste. Secondly, prepare 50g of Lycium barbarum, chrysanthemum 12, fresh pig liver 100g, and a little salt and monosodium glutamate. Preparation of chrysanthemum wat: wrap chrysanthemum with gauze and add water to boil for about15min, take out gauze bag, put it into Lycium barbarum, and boil with low fire after15min; Wash and slice fresh pork liver, stir-fry in a hot oil pan, pour in boiled chrysanthemum water, and add salt and monosodium glutamate to taste after cooking.
Features: This soup is light and refreshing, with pleasant fragrance. Has effect in nourishing live blood, caring skin and improving eyesight.
Nutrition accounting: calories 369.9 calories protein 26.6 grams fat 4.4 grams carbohydrate 30.9 grams.
■ Pickled chrysanthemum fragrance
Ingredients: cucumber100g, kelp100g, celery 50g and chrysanthemum 50g.
Practice: kelp is cooked and fished out with hot water, celery is finely cut, and chrysanthemum is washed with salt water and water. Add seasoning sesame oil, salt and monosodium glutamate for pickling. You can finish it in half an hour.
Features: beautiful and delicious, it is a food with table.
Nutritional accounting: calories 164.4 calories protein 4. 1 g fat 0.7 g carbohydrate 2.5g.
■ Chrysanthemum and egg soup
Ingredients: dried chrysanthemum150g, 2 eggs, 4 spoons of stock.
Seasoning: salt, vinegar, cooking wine, clear oil, white pepper, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil and shredded ginger.
Making:
1, tear off chrysanthemum petals, wash them, blanch them with boiling water, and wash them for later use; Beat the eggs into a bowl, add salt and cooking wine, and beat well with chopsticks.
2. Add 40 grams of clear oil to the pot. When the oil is 60% hot, pour in the eggs, spread them into round cakes, fry them on both sides, and cut them into 3 cm long shredded eggs.
3. Set the pot on fire, add fresh soup, add seasoning, boil and skim off the floating foam, adjust the taste, add shredded eggs and chrysanthemum, stir well, pour in sesame oil, and serve.
Features: the fragrance is soft and smooth, the soup is delicious, the color is gorgeous, and the dark fragrance floats.
Nutritional accounting: 556.8 calories protein17.2g fat11.5g carbohydrate 36.9g.
Ingredients: shrimp150g, beef tenderloin150g, pork tenderloin150g, chicken150g, white chrysanthemum 20g, spinach 60g, vermicelli 50g, peanuts 30g, salt 4g, monosodium glutamate 2g, ingredients.
Exercise:
1, shrimp, cow, pig, chicken, one plate each. A plate of peanuts and a small bowl of Chili oil 1.
There is clear soup in the hot pot, which tastes good. Light it on the table and serve it with the ingredients. After the soup is boiled, add chrysanthemums, and the guests rinse with chopsticks.
3, a variety of spices for dipping.
Features: the taste is salty and spicy, and the soup is clear and delicious. Patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, obesity and diabetes should eat a small amount; Patients with osteoporosis and rickets and pregnant women should eat in moderation.
Nutrition accounting: calories 1974 calories protein 140. 1g fat 126.2g carbohydrate 69.6g (Note: The above nutrition accounting table is for reference only. Because food, calories and other factors are different. )