Winter is the best time for maintenance and preservation all year round. At this time, food supplement can not only regulate the body, but also enhance the physical fitness and improve the body's disease resistance. There are many ways to supplement food, and practice has proved that stew is the best. Because stew can not only keep the original flavor of food, but also most of the nutrients are dissolved in soup and will not be lost. At the same time, it is also a major feature of Lingnan food culture.
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Stews have a history of thousands of years.
Talking about stews has a history of thousands of years in China. As early as the late Neolithic period, there appeared Ding, Wei and Zhen pottery, and these were the earliest "steamer" and "steamer". China's earliest "boiled" stew was thus produced.
Mainland stew is nothing more than a big pot. It's better to be a casserole or something, but Cantonese people use small stews, sometimes sealed with wet paper.
In the eyes of mainlanders, "stew" means slowness, which means wasting time. Mainlanders don't pay much attention to stews. Listen to the names of these northern dishes: Huimian Noodles with Pork, Mushroom Stewed with Chicken, Eggplant Stewed with Potato, and the most ruthless one is Northeast Stewed, which was even called "Stewed Mushroom" after being demoted from the company. However, the "stew" in the wasteland became beautiful as soon as it arrived in Guangdong, also called "stew". This is because of Guangdong's unique concept of dietotherapy and nourishing.
Guangdong people know the word "stew" best, combining fire and water, so as to supplement food, help doctors and help each other, and focus on health. Its stew can be divided into tonic type and nourishing type. There are stewed chicken with lotus seeds, stewed lean meat, stewed bamboo chicken with American ginseng and stewed peanuts with chicken feet. Nourishing and strong types include stewed shredded bamboo chicken with Dangshen and Beiqi, stewed dog meat with Lycium barbarum, stewed rabbit meat with Lycium barbarum, stewed chicken with Korean ginseng and stewed mutton with Lycium barbarum. (Yan Tao)
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What needs to be pointed out here is that winter tonic must vary from person to person due to illness, and pay attention to "the right medicine".
If you often feel weak limbs, mental fatigue, low voice and sweating when walking, most of them belong to qi deficiency. You can choose ginseng, codonopsis pilosula, Pseudostellaria heterophylla, Schisandra chinensis and other qi-benefiting drugs to stew with soybeans, jujubes, chestnuts, carrots, beef, rabbit meat and other foods.
If you have sallow complexion, pale lips, dizziness, weak heartbeat, insomnia, tinnitus and palpitations, most of them belong to blood deficiency. You can choose nourishing drugs such as donkey-hide gelatin, longan pulp, Angelica sinensis, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Shiquan Dabu Pill, and nourishing creams and foods such as longan, litchi, grape, black sesame, beef liver and sheep liver for stewing.
When the hands and feet are not warm, afraid of cold and enuresis, some of them may have sexual dysfunction, such as nocturnal emission and impotence. Most of them belong to yang deficiency. You can choose antler slices, ginseng slices, Morinda officinalis, Epimedium, gecko and other medicinal materials to help yang and fire, and stew them with walnuts, shrimp, mutton, dog meat, sea cucumber and other foods.
People with yin deficiency often have low fever, afternoon facial flushing, night sweats, burning hands and feet, dry mouth and dry eyes. Asparagus, Ophiopogon japonicus, Radix Rehmanniae, Fructus Lycii, Polygonatum odoratum, Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis or Dabuyin Pill and Liuwei Dihuang Pill should be selected to nourish yin and tonify kidney, and cooked with pears, mulberries, sugar cane, lotus root, tremella and duck.
However, it should be remembered that cold and greasy things should be avoided during tonic, so as not to interfere with the digestive function of the spleen and stomach and affect the absorption of supplements. If you encounter a cold, fever, diarrhea, etc. During the tonic period, the drug should be temporarily stopped.
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How much angelica do you put in the stewed chicken?
Stewed chicken with Angelica sinensis and Astragalus membranaceus is a common nourishing and dietetic method, which is suitable for postpartum, sick and elderly patients. However, how much angelica and how much astragalus are suitable for stewing a chicken? If the compatibility is improper, or the bitter taste is too strong to eat, or the chicken soup is tasteless, the purpose of nourishing the body cannot be achieved.
According to textual research, this prescription is based on "Danggui Buxue Decoction" made by Li Dongyuan, a famous doctor in Yuan Dynasty. The dosage of the original prescription is Astragalus membranaceus (an ancient weighing unit, equivalent to 3 1.25g) and Angelica sinensis (6.2g), and the ratio is 5: 1. According to this, through clinical observation, it is appropriate to stew a chicken (about 2 kg) with Astragalus membranaceus 120 g and Angelica sinensis 24 g. This kind of chicken soup is delicious and can enhance the tonic effect. (Wu Xiuying)
Classic stewed dishes
Stewed partridge with North and South Apricot and Chuanbei
Ingredients: 4 grams of apricot, 6 grams of Fritillaria, 0/50 grams of partridge/kloc, and appropriate amount of ginger.
Analysis of decoction: North apricot tastes bitter and slightly warm, while South apricot tastes sweet but not bitter, which can relieve cough and asthma, moisten intestines and relax bowels. Chuanbei tastes bitter, sweet and slightly cold, and has the effects of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, clearing away heat and resolving hard mass. Partridges are sweet and warm, which can resolve phlegm and benefit the five internal organs. Together, they can resolve phlegm and relieve cough.
Key points of production: wash partridge, add ginger and onion to remove fishy smell, put it in a stew with washed apricot and Fritillaria cirrhosa, add 300 ml of water and stew for 2 hours.
Applicable people: upper respiratory tract infection, acute and chronic tracheitis, pneumonia, acute and chronic tonsillitis with dry cough or less but sticky sputum, dry cough without phlegm, itchy throat with constipation.
Braised abalone with medlar meat
Ingredients: longan meat 1 0g, medlar10g, lean meat 60g, fresh abalone10g, ginger slices.
Analysis of decoction and medicine: round meat is sweet and warm, and it has the functions of nourishing heart and spleen, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. It is a tonic. Lycium barbarum tastes sweet and flat, which can nourish yin and enrich blood, and is beneficial to eyesight. Abalone tastes sweet and salty, and can nourish yin and benefit eyesight. Used together, it can nourish blood, soothe the nerves and improve intelligence.
Key points of production: remove impurities from Lycium barbarum, wash it, put it in a stew with washed fresh abalone, lean meat and ginger slices, add 300 ml of water and stew for 3 hours.
Applicable people: anemia caused by deficiency of heart and spleen, thrombocytopenia, insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitation caused by neurasthenia, mental fatigue caused by physical weakness after illness and postpartum. Arteriosclerosis, premature senility, eye diseases, hepatobiliary diseases, etc. It belongs to deficiency of liver and kidney and deficiency of essence and blood.