What soup do pregnant women drink for health in the snowy solar terms?
Pregnant women choose some vegetarian dishes or meat stew soup during the solar term of heavy snow, which can not only supplement nutrition, but also strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, moisten the intestines and relax the bowels. However, when stewing soup, we should be careful not to destroy the nutrition of the soup, let alone affect our health. We often think that the longer we cook soup, the more delicious it will taste and the higher its nutritional value, which is wrong. Because cooking for a long time will decompose and lose the nutritional value of ingredients. Therefore, 1 ~ 2 hours is generally suitable for our soup.
Sihong decoction
Ingredients: adzuki bean, red date, peanut kernel (red skin) and brown sugar.
Practice: Wash red beans and soak them in clear water 1 hour. Wash the red dates and soak them in warm water for a while. Put water in the pot and add red beans, red dates and peanuts. Cover the pot and bring it to a boil. After the water is boiled, add appropriate amount of brown sugar and turn to low heat to boil. Stir occasionally until you like it, then turn off the heat and serve.
Efficacy: Sihong Decoction is very suitable for pregnant women who are very afraid of cold in winter. It can help pregnant women warm their bodies, strengthen their spleen and stomach, and has high nutritional value. It can relieve cold hands and feet in winter. This prescription has the effects of enriching blood and benefiting liver, strengthening spleen and promoting diuresis, clearing away heat and swelling, promoting diuresis and detoxifying, and can be used as an adjuvant treatment for patients with persistent hepatitis.
White mushroom sparerib soup
Ingredients: fresh white mushrooms, ribs, pepper, aniseed, fennel, onion, ginger, garlic, salt, Shaoxing wine and pepper.
Practice: Wash the ribs and chop them into small pieces. Cook the ribs in cold water, spit out blood foam, and take out the ribs for later use. Wash the white mushrooms with clear water and fish them out in flying water (it can remove the earthy smell of mushrooms). Boil the water in the pot, add the blanched ribs, onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, aniseed and fennel, boil, skim off the floating foam and add Shaoxing wine. Bring the fire to a boil, and turn to low heat for stewing 1 hour, and it turns milky white. Finally, add white mushrooms and stew for 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and serve.
Efficacy: White mushroom sparerib soup is very suitable for pregnant women and can help them nourish their bodies. Besides protein, fat and vitamins, ribs also contain a lot of calcium phosphate, collagen and bone mucin, which can provide calcium for children and the elderly. Ribs have high nutritional value, and have the effects of nourishing yin, strengthening yang, benefiting essence and enriching blood. Mushrooms are rich in nutrients and delicious, and have been listed as the absorption of nutrients in superior foods since ancient times. Mushrooms are rich in 18 amino acids, and the amino acid composition ratio of protein in some mushrooms is better than that of beef.
Stewed duck with yam
Ingredients: duck, yam, red dates and medlar. Seasoning: onion ginger, star anise, pepper, fragrant leaves, dried tangerine peel, yellow wine, rock sugar, salt and pepper.
Practice: Wash the duck and cut it into pieces (peeling and degreasing, not greasy). Boil in cold water, turn off the fire, take out the duck meat, and rinse it repeatedly with cold water for 2-3 times. Add cold water to the pot, and add duck, onion, ginger, star anise, pepper, fragrant leaves, dried tangerine peel and yellow wine. After the fire boils, simmer for 50 minutes. Season with salt, and add 2 pieces of rock sugar, yam, red dates and medlar to stew 10 minute. Add pepper and chopped green onion to the pot.
Efficacy: Stewed duck with yam has the effect of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the lungs for pregnant women, and is suitable for drinking during heavy snow and solar terms. Duck meat is an excellent food for people to supplement. Duck meat is suitable for people with fever in the body, and it is more beneficial to people with weak constitution, loss of appetite, fever, dry stool and edema. Yam is not dry and greasy, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and lung, invigorating stomach and kidney, strengthening kidney and nourishing essence, improving hearing and eyesight, helping five internal organs, strengthening bones and muscles, calming nerves and prolonging life. Yam and duck can also nourish yin and nourish the lungs.
Pregnant women should pay attention to reasonable health care during the heavy snow and solar terms, not only pay attention to the usual cold and warmth, but also pay attention to eating more food that is helpful for tonic. For pregnant women who often catch cold, fever and get angry, they can drink more soup. Drinking soup can not only warm the body, but also strengthen the spleen and stomach. For example, Sihong Decoction can help pregnant women replenish blood and qi, strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis, and eliminate edema. White mushroom sparerib soup helps pregnant women to supplement protein, calcium and collagen, which helps to maintain the skin. Stewed duck with yam can help pregnant women nourish the five internal organs, strengthen the spleen and replenish the lungs.