In Xiaoman season, everything flourishes and grows most vigorously, and the physiological activities of the human body are also in the most vigorous period, and the nutrients consumed in the four seasons and twenty-four solar terms are the most. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement it in time to protect the internal organs of the body from damage. Soups in this solar term are also very important, such as mung bean sprout clam soup, balsam pear kapok beef soup, Hu Aishan red bean, zucchini, pig moon show soup, shepherd's purse, ginger fish head soup, old chicken tripe soup with pepper and sesame noodles, American ginseng and red dates sashimi soup, chicken feet soup, etc. These soups have the functions of clearing away heat, nourishing yin, eliminating dampness, warming stomach and warming up.
Spring breeze blows, bitter vegetables grow, and wasteland is a granary. It is also the season of bitter vegetables around Xiaoman, which is one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Zhou Shu: Xiaoman Day Bitter Vegetable Show. The Book of Songs: Bitter comes sweet, under the sun. Sophora alopecuroides is all over the country. Medically, it's called Patrinia, Ningxia people call it Sophora alopecuroides, Shaanxi people call it Sophora alopecuroides, and Li Shizhen is called Tianxiao Herb.
Kuding tea is bitter with astringency, astringent with sweetness, fresh and refreshing, cool and smooth, rich in nutrition, containing vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol, and has the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. Compendium of Materia Medica: (Bitter vegetables) Long-term use, peace of mind and qi, intelligence and fitness, anti-aging. In medicine, bitter herbs are often used to treat fever, and the ancients also used it to sober up. People in Ningxia like to cook bitter vegetables, wash them and eat them with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic paste to make them cool and spicy, and eat steamed bread and rice, which greatly increases their appetite. Pickling bitter vegetables in yellow rice soup is also useful. It tastes sour and sweet, crisp and refreshing. Some people also boil bitter vegetables with boiling water, and squeeze out bitter juice to make soup, stuffing, stir-fry and cook noodles, each with its own flavor.
Winter melon grass carp pot
Xiaoman is the prone period of skin diseases, and the diet should be based on a refreshing and light vegetarian diet, often eating foods with the function of clearing away dampness and heat, such as adzuki bean, coix seed, mung bean, white gourd, cucumber, day lily, celery, water chestnut, auricularia auricula, carrot, tomato, watermelon, yam, crucian carp, grass carp and game, and avoiding eating cream.
The public may wish to try the melon grass carp pot, which can play a role in dispelling wind, promoting diuresis and removing heat.
[Ingredients] 500g of wax gourd, 250g of grass carp, salt, monosodium glutamate and vegetable oil.
[Practice] Peel the wax gourd, wash and cut into triangular pieces, cut the grass carp clean, and leave the tail to wash. First, fry grass carp in oil until golden brown, take a casserole, put appropriate amount of water, put grass carp and wax gourd together in the casserole, first boil it with strong fire, then stew it with slow fire for about two hours until the soup turns white, and then season it with salt and monosodium glutamate.
Xiaoman solar terms, the focus of health care is to clear away heat, strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis, and eating lotus root is a good choice.
Ingredients: lotus root 1 knot, glutinous rice 1 small bowl, crystal sugar 1 a lot, a little dried osmanthus, and a little honey.
Practice: Soak glutinous rice in advance 1, 1 hour, wash lotus root, peel it, and cut it from one end.
2. Fill the soaked glutinous rice into the lotus root hole with chopsticks or bamboo sticks until it is full.
3. Insert some toothpicks into the incision of lotus root, and then cover the lotus root section just cut at the other end of the toothpick to sew it.
4. Put the sealed lotus root into the pot and add rock sugar. Pour clear water on the lotus root, bring it to a boil and turn to medium heat for about 1 hour.
5. Take out the lotus root and slice it. Sprinkle some dried osmanthus and pour honey on it.