The off-year in the north is generally on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and the off-year in the south is on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Although the time is different, the meaning of off-year is the same, and it is the day to meet the kitchen god. If you want to see the kitchen god, you must prepare food well. So what do you usually eat in the off-year?

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What do you usually eat in off-year?

1. Fried corn: In the southeast of Shanxi, there is a custom of eating fried corn. There is a saying in the folk proverb, "23. If you don't eat fried corn, pour a pot for the New Year.". People like to bond fried corn with maltose and freeze it into pieces, which tastes crisp and sweet.

2. honeydew melon: I need to buy some sweets for offering sacrifices to the kitchen, such as honeydew melon and Guandong sugar, to go to Renwang on the 23rd. Honeydew melon is an ancient traditional snack of Han nationality. Use it to worship the kitchen god. First of all, ask him to say a few good words when he reports to the Jade Emperor. Second, let sugar stick to his mouth to prevent him from talking more.

3, rice cakes: Guangxi folk and other places have the custom of making rice cakes in the next year. The rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour as the main material, peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar as the ingredients, put into a mold to make it round, and then steamed at high temperature, which has a unique taste and means "round and round".

4, sticky cake: sticky cake with yellow rice, red dates and other raw materials, sweet and rich, soft entrance. In addition, Hainan people also use coconuts as ingredients to make coconut cakes for eating and praying, which means "high every year".

5. jiaozi: On New Year's Eve in the north, we are used to eating jiaozi, which means seeing off Kitchen God and "seeing jiaozi off in the wind". When offering sacrifices, jiaozi should be placed on the platform. During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable food.

6, fire: fire is also a very distinctive food in the stove. On this day, the sesame seed cake stalls in the city are very prosperous, and most of the rural areas are heated by one household. If you eat the sacrificial stove and burn it, you will be blessed by the kitchen god and have peace in the coming year.

7. Nian Zongzi: As the saying goes, "Nian Zongzi Nian Zongzi, year after year high school (Zongzi)". The New Year's Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is different from Liang Zongzi. It has stuffing, big and small, long and short, round and flat. After the leaves are peeled off, the skin is glutinous rice, and the stuffing is mung bean and pork, and other stuffing can also be added.

The principle of off-year diet

1, the nutrition should be balanced to avoid big fish and big meat. Eat more vegetables, bean products, fungi and other foods to adjust the taste and reduce blood sugar and blood lipid.

2. Try to cook by steaming, boiling and stewing to avoid frying food.

3. Eat moderately and avoid satiety. Eating too much will raise the diaphragm and increase the burden on the heart.

4, should choose light drinks, do not drink or drink less sugary drinks, limit drinking.

Healthy diet

1, sweet and sour lotus root

Ingredients: lotus root 500g, carrot 1g, ginger 10g, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 4 tablespoons of white vinegar, 5 tablespoons of clear water, 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce, 5g of water starch, celery powder and vegetable oil.

Practice: wash lotus root and carrot, peel and cut into hob blocks for later use; Add 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, 3 tablespoons of white sugar, 4 tablespoons of white vinegar, 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce and 5 tablespoons of clear water into a bowl, and stir well to make sweet and sour juice. Add water to the pot, add lotus root and carrot when the water boils, cook until the growth stops, and then drain; Add a proper amount of vegetable oil to the wok, stir-fry ginger in hot oil, then add carrots and lotus roots and stir-fry; Add sweet and sour juice, stir-fry evenly, then turn to low heat and cook slightly, so that carrots and lotus roots can absorb the sweet and sour juice; Finally, add water starch, stir well, and sprinkle celery powder for decoration.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

2. Steamed meat with taro powder

Ingredients: 500g pork belly, half taro, 3 shallots, ginger 1 small pieces, steamed pork rice noodles 150g, 7g red fermented milk, 45g sweet noodle sauce, 3g cooking wine, soy sauce 15g sugar 15g salt.

Practice: Pork belly is cut into thick slices of about 0.5 cm, taro is washed, peeled and sliced, ginger is washed and sliced, and onion is washed and cut; Put the processed pork belly into a small bowl, add cooking wine, soy sauce, sweet noodle sauce, fermented milk, ginger slices, sugar and salt, and marinate for 1 hour; The steamed pork rice noodles are mixed with appropriate amount of water and evenly wrapped on the marinated pork belly; Spread taro flat on the bottom of the steamer with oily paper, then put pork belly wrapped in steamed pork rice flour, and code it in turn according to the order of taro layer by layer; Add a proper amount of water to the pot, put it into a steamer after the water boils, and steam it for about 1 or 5 hours on low and medium fire. Sprinkle with chopped green onion and serve.