1, bean sprouts: It is a unique custom for Xiao Han to eat bean sprouts in Tianjin in the old days. Soybean sprouts are made from Chinese cabbage buds. After harvesting the cabbage, remove the stems and leaves, only keep the heart of the cabbage, then cover it with manure and take it out for half a month. It is very fresh and crisp. In the past, people used soybean sprouts to make up for the shortage of seasonal vegetables in winter.
2, chicken soup: the slight cold solar term is in the March 9 season, and the folks have the saying that "every September 1 chicken will be good in the coming year." Chinese medicine believes that chicken is warm, contains a lot of vitamins and high-quality protein, and has low fat content, which is easily digested and absorbed by human body. The nutritional value of chicken is higher than red meat. Medical research has confirmed that eating chicken can improve human immunity. Eating chicken in winter can not only provide rich nutrition for the body, but also effectively resist the cold and not breed internal fire. It is a good tonic in winter. There are many ways to cook chicken, but stew and soup are the most nourishing way to eat.
3, Laba porridge: Generally speaking, Xiaohan is very close to Laba Festival, so many places have the custom of eating Laba porridge on the same day. Laba porridge has many ingredients, mainly glutinous rice, rice, black rice, red beans, peanuts, millet, chestnuts, raisins, longan, lotus seeds, brown sugar, broken nuts and so on. The ingredients used in the north and south are not the same. Eating a bowl of hot porridge rich in ingredients in the cold solar term of slight cold can not only increase appetite, but also warm the stomach and drive away cold, which has the effect of driving away cold.
4. Mutton: "Slight cold" is the coldest time of the year, and people are easily attacked by the cold. The quickest and most effective way to resist the cold is not a cotton-padded coat, but a bowl of steaming mutton soup. Mutton is the most cost-effective warm tonic food. If you cook it with some angelica, yam and carrot, and season it with green onions and ginger, it is recommended to eat it once a week, which will not get angry and make winter warm.
5. Gao Zhen: This kind of cake evolved from the special food of the royal family in the Western Zhou Dynasty in China more than 3,000 years ago. In the pre-Qin period, steamed cakes with bean paste were added to glutinous rice flour, and in the Tang Dynasty, steamed dates and rice were developed. This kind of food is also called "Crystal Dragon and Phoenix Cake". Sun Li vividly explained Gao Zhen's exquisiteness in the TV series "That Year in bloom". After watching that episode, how many foodies want to taste the best of such people? Legend has it that men and women eat precious cakes together for a hundred years.
Matters needing attention in diet of slight cold solar terms
Entering the slight cold solar term, it has also entered several cold days, and the diet is mainly based on winter tonic. When winter is dry and cold, medical experts remind people to pay attention to winter health preservation, with special emphasis on "nourishing kidney and preventing cold": to replenish blood and qi and yin and yang. There is also a saying in folk proverbs that "three nine make up one winter, and there will be no disease in the coming year", which shows the importance of health care tonic in winter. As the saying goes, "eating radish in winter and ginger in summer without a doctor's prescription" is a tonic, and the custom of eating mutton and dog meat in winter is also a tonic. Don't be greedy, greasy and spicy, and give priority to invigorating qi and moistening dryness. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold is yin evil, and the coldest solar term is also the most prosperous period of yin evil. From the point of view of diet health, we should pay special attention to eating more warm food in our daily diet to supplement our health and prevent the invasion of cold climate.
The practice of warming soup
Exercise 1:
Ingredients: Sanhuang Chicken, Mushroom, Coriander and Lycium barbarum
Accessories: aniseed, fragrant leaves, salt, onion and ginger.
Practice steps:
1, blanch the whole chicken to remove impurities and blood foam.
2. Add aniseed, fragrant leaves, salt, onion and ginger into boiling water, and stew the whole chicken in a casserole for 2 hours.
3. Add mushrooms and medlar and continue stewing for 30 minutes.
4. Turn off the fire and add the minced parsley.
Exercise 2:
Materials: hen 1 hen, codonopsis pilosula 25g, angelica 30g, yam 30g, jujube 30g, medlar10g.
Accessories: salt 1 teaspoon, ginger 5g.
Practice steps
1. After the materials are prepared, wash Radix Codonopsis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Fructus Jujubae, Fructus Lycii and Rhizoma Dioscoreae, and slice ginger.
2. Blanch the hen with boiling water, rinse off the floating foam, put it in a casserole with Radix Codonopsis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Fructus Jujubae, and Rhizoma Dioscoreae, inject enough water, bring it to a boil with high fire, and simmer for 3 hours with low fire. Do not uncover the lid during this period.
3. Finally, add Lycium barbarum and add some salt.