First, let's take a look at Huangdi Neijing: Four Qi Tunes the Spirit: In March, this is called Chen Sheng, Heaven and Earth Sheng, Everything is glorious, lying at night and getting up early, striding to court, and going slow, so as to live, live without killing, give without taking, and reward without punishment. This is the reaction of spring and the way of keeping in good health.
Spring, known as "bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new", is the season of bringing forth the new and budding life. Hair, germination, hair growth There is a gas gushing from the ground. Similarly, people's anger is up and down. Qi and blood rush from the five internal organs, stomach and intestines to the head, face and body ends of the limbs. Nature is full of vitality, and everything seems to be thriving.
At this time, people should go to bed at night, get up early, let their hair loose, unbutton their clothes, relax, walk in the courtyard, make their spirits happy, keep their minds open and keep the vitality of everything.
Spring is not the season of killing, but the season of life. In other words, spring is the season of not eating meat or eating less meat, the season of digestion, and the time to transform the nutrients stored in winter into qi, blood and spiritual energy.
Keeping fit with the weather, the so-called spring life, is the time for hair growth. Eat germinated things, and newly germinated plants have the strongest vitality. Such as mugwort leaves, sprouts, bamboo shoots, Chinese toon buds, shepherd's purse and so on. In spring, the color corresponds to cyan, and the energy contained in cyan is exactly what the human body needs most in spring.
Therefore, spring is the season to eat turquoise plants.
bud seedling vegetable
Sprouts are edible "sprouts" cultivated from seeds of various cereals, beans and trees, also known as "live vegetables". Rich in variety and comprehensive in nutrition, it is a common vegetable. Common sprouts are: Toona sinensis, pine willow, pepper, pea, sunflower seed sprouts, radish, peanut, broad bean and more than 30 varieties.
Bean sprouts undergo a series of substance transformations during germination: for example, under the action of hydrolase, the substances stored in polymers are transformed into soluble simple substances that are easily absorbed by human body, so bean sprouts are not only beautiful in color, but also crisp and tender to eat and easy to digest and absorb.
Traditional bean sprouts refer to soybean sprouts. Bean sprouts are called "soybean yellow rolls" by Shennong Herbal Classic. China has invented bean sprouts for more than 2000 years.
Bean sprouts are cold and sweet, and can be properly matched with ginger and onion.
Bean sprouts are not only outstanding in appearance, but also satisfactory in nutrition. Li Shizhen recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: Only this kind of bean sprout has a unique beauty beauty function, and it has the functions of "relieving alcoholism, clearing away heat and toxic substances and benefiting triple energizer" after eating.
Bud recipe
Cold bean sprouts
1, sprouts, carrots, green peppers, coriander, etc. Wash and chop, and shred carrots and green peppers.
2. Blanch in water and let it cool. Add the right amount of salt, sesame oil and mature vinegar and mix well.
Refreshing vegetable roll
1, choose your favorite sprouts, such as pine willow, soybean sprouts, pea sprouts, etc. , carrots, cucumbers and dried tofu, washed and shredded. Peel off the leaves of the cabbage and take a whole piece.
2. The leaves of bean sprouts, cucumbers and cabbages are cooled after blanching. Take carrots and tofu out of the pan to dry, add some oil and salt, stir-fry until fragrant, and let it cool.
3. Roll the skin with cabbage leaves and roll a small part of the ingredients.
Fried sprouts with lard and garlic
1. Wash the bean sprouts for later use. Ingredients: lard, garlic, salt.
2. Stir-fry garlic with lard, pour in sprouts and stir-fry until cooked.
Soup bud
1, first make soup base with corn and carrot stew. Wash and chop sprouts, wash and slice small mushrooms and carrots, and add appropriate amount of garlic.
2. Stir-fry garlic with cooking oil, pour in small mushrooms and carrots, stir-fry first, then pour in sprouts, add appropriate amount of salt, stir-fry, and pour in appropriate amount of soup base when the sprouts become discolored and soft.
3. Boil the soup base.
Germinated porridge
Porridge is easy to digest and absorb, which is more suitable for babies. There are two ways to make vegetable porridge:
1. Wash the sprouts and cut into pieces, add appropriate amount of porridge, boil, pour the sprouts, add salt and oil, and cook the sprouts.
2. Wash the sprouts and cut them into pieces. Add garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. Add sprouts, stir fry, and then add porridge to cook.
chinese chive fried bean sprouts
1. Wash chives (or leeks) and cut them into short inches. Wash the bean sprouts and remove the roots.
2. Stir-fry chives (or leeks) first, then add bean sprouts, add salt and a little rice vinegar.
3, stir fry quickly and evenly.
Fried bean sprouts with vermicelli
1, soak the vermicelli and wash the bean sprouts. Can be served with shredded carrots and green peppers.
2. Slice the onion and garlic, put oil in a hot pot and stir fry, add bean sprouts and stir fry, add vermicelli, and then add seasonings such as salt and oyster sauce. Just fry it.
folium artemisiae argyi
After beginning of spring, wormwood with strong germination ability can't wait to grow green leaves. Folium Artemisiae Argyi, its composition and efficacy grow best during the Dragon Boat Festival. Here is the fresh and tender Artemisia argyi leaves growing in spring. The wild mugwort leaves on the roadside are bitter, even if they just grow. You can swim first and then cook. There is a variety called sweet mugwort leaf, which is mainly planted artificially. It is very sweet and tender and has no bitterness.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi is pungent, bitter and warm. Dispelling cold, warming stomach and regulating menstruation. My memory of mugwort leaves began in my teens. My mother forced me to eat mugwort leaves after my monthly period. The real wild mugwort leaves are too bitter to have friends.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi recipe:
1, a handful of mugwort leaves and a little sliced meat.
2. Marinate the meat slices with some salt, starch and soy sauce.
3. After the water is boiled, put the mugwort leaves and meat slices. Wait until it's ripe.
Young babies need to chop up mugwort leaves. Folium Artemisiae Argyi has a special fragrance. Some babies don't like it. We can use another method.
Fried eggs with wormwood leaves
1. Wash and chop Folium Artemisiae Argyi, add egg liquid, add salt and mix well.
2. Put the mugwort egg liquid into a low-temperature oil pan.
3. Fry on low heat. The eggs fried in this way are tender and smooth.
Aiye pancake
1. Wash and chop Folium Artemisiae Argyi for later use.
2, the right amount of flour, add salt to taste, add water and stir into a paste, add the cut Artemisia argyi leaves.
3. Brush a thin layer of oil in the pan, pour in the batter, and fry over low heat. Or set the electric baking pan to scone mode. Cut off the pendulum when it gets cold. You can have another tomato juice or mushroom sauce that the baby likes.
In spring, the color corresponds to cyan, the five elements correspond to wood, and the five internal organs correspond to the liver. The wood is tall and straight, and the acid dominates the astringency. These two flavors are affecting the liver. Healthy people are suitable for eating spicy food in spring, which is slightly spicy. Conducive to your hair growth, and transform nutrients into energy, which is transported from the body to the limbs. Such as onion, leek, laba garlic, etc.
verdant
Onion has a pungent smell, which can dredge the upper Du meridian, dispel cold and enlighten the mind, dredge the lower Ren meridian and spit saliva, tears and gastric juice. Putting onions in cooking can not only arouse appetite, but also balance the yin and cold properties of food.
Fried eggs with chopped green onion, a simple food, also contains the wisdom of the ancients, observing the nuanced taste of food. Eggs are cloudy and cold. For people with insufficient yang or cold yin, it is easy to have abdominal pain and diarrhea after eating, and some will vomit. Some people are allergic to boiled eggs, but it is okay to eat fried eggs. Using hot cooking or heating seasoning to balance the yin and cold of eggs is beneficial to human absorption. Chopped green onion, Chinese toon and leek spread fried eggs, and foreigners are also used to sprinkling black pepper noodles on fried eggs, all of which are the same.
Fried eggs with chopped green onion
1, wash the onion and cut it into chopped green onion, break up the eggs, add chopped green onion into the egg mixture, add a little salt and stir well.
2, hot pot oil, low fire, add egg liquid, low fire.
3. Cut into pieces and plate after frying.
Chinese chives
Leek is fragrant in spring, hot in summer, bitter in autumn and sweet in winter. Jiaozi leeks, fried noodles with leeks and fried leeks are all suitable for children.
In spring, we need to eat less fruit and juice, concentrate on acid, which goes against the way of keeping in good health in spring and stifles our vitality. Especially those with depressed liver.
Sun Da, the drug king, said in Qian Jin Fang: "In the spring of seventy-two, keep sour and sweeten to nourish the temper.". In spring, wood is strong, wood is weak and soil is weak. But the spleen and stomach belong to the soil, and dampness is easy to disturb the spleen and stomach. People with poor spleen and stomach are prone to indigestion, abdominal distension stagnation, nausea and vomiting in spring. Therefore, eat some rustic and thick food in spring to protect the spleen and stomach. Rusticity is a sweet spirit. Foods that grow in the soil and get soil flavor, such as yam, lily, potato, taro, sweet potato, etc.
Fried yam and lily
1. Scrape off the skin of fresh yam, wash and slice it, soak it in water, and wash off the mucus on the surface of yam. Peel the lily and wash it. Shred carrots and cut celery into small pieces.
2. Stir-fry in a hot pot and add yam, lily, celery and carrot.
3, stir fry, put a little salt and cook.
Babies under the age of three can stew yam and lily porridge to strengthen the spleen and replenish qi.
Mashed potato balls
1. Wash potatoes, steam them in a steamer and peel them. Soft it into mud with a baby spoon, and then spoon it into balls.
2. After oiling the hot pot, put the small fire into the ball and put a little salt.
3. stir fry gently.
Braised taro
1, peeled taro and cut into pieces, with appropriate amount of garlic.
2. Stir-fry garlic, taro, salt, stir-fry, drain, and simmer on low heat until the taro is soft and rotten.
3. Add some coriander according to your preference and take it out of the pot.
Sweet potato dessert store
1, peeled and sliced sweet potato, sliced ginger, 3-5 red dates and appropriate amount of brown sugar.
2. Put the above ingredients into the pot, add water and stew until the sweet potato is soft and rotten.
Babies generally don't like spicy food. Just put one or two pieces of ginger. This is also a variant of ginger jujube tea during the baby's cold. With sweet potatoes, the baby likes it better. If the baby has a cold, it can be paired with some perilla. If it is a cold mixed with cold and heat, it can be paired with a common weed on the roadside-Bidens bipinnata.
Children have a keen sense of taste, the food should be light, and try to keep the original flavor. At every meal, the staple food is mainly local whole grains, and the side dishes are less than the staple food. Cereals such as rice, wheat flour and millet are the best choices for nourishing the spleen and stomach. I want my children to grow more meat and eat more staple foods. Finally, I still want to say a word, three points of hunger and cold, can not eat too much, enough is enough.
Seasonal life is a tradition of China people, simple and natural. Let's meet Miss Chun, feel full of vitality and spend March in spring happily.