Although it has been sunny during the day recently, I can clearly feel the chill of winter getting closer and closer. I go out in the morning and evening, which is not enough to resist the cold. Looking through the calendar, I found that I would go to beginning of winter soon. I have to say how time flies. The scene of spending a long vacation at home last winter is still vivid, and it is going to winter again.
Winter in the north is dry and cold, and people with poor physical resistance are often too cold to stand, and they feel uncomfortable at both ends for three days. Therefore, every winter, the elders at home always break their hearts for our mistresses. Just before winter, the elders at home called. It's cold, put on more clothes, keep your mouth shut and don't eat indiscriminately.
Because winter is different from other seasons, the weather is cold and dry, the human body's resistance drops, and it is easy to catch a cold and cough if you are not careful, so there is the custom of eating "Di San Bao" and drinking "Five Blessingg Tang" every winter here. According to the old people, beginning of winter solar terms, eat more "three treasures of the earth" and drink more "Five Blessingg soup", so it won't freeze in winter! Let's have a look!
Beginning of winter should eat more seasonal ingredients listed in autumn and winter, adapt to the solar terms, adjust the diet, and enhance the body's resistance. Naturally, it is not afraid of the cold.
Chinese yam
Yam is a common ingredient in autumn and winter. Every year 10 in late June and 1 10 in June, yam comes into the market in large quantities. Yam is a kind of warm food with rich nutritional value. You can eat more yam in winter, whether it's steamed, porridge or stew. In addition, eating yam can also play a role in slimming and reducing fat, so it is a good choice for people who are keen on winter fitness!
Small carrot
As the old saying goes, "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and don't bother to prescribe medicine." Winter is the season when radishes are on the market. Radish in winter is full of water and rich in nutritional value. It has been affectionately called "Little Ginseng" and is a vegetable that many people love to store in winter. The weather is dry in winter, so eating more radishes can make up for winter. In addition, the spicy taste of radish can stimulate appetite. It is a "gem-grade" food that is very suitable for winter consumption. The key is cheap and affordable for ordinary people!
sweet potato
The most popular snack on the street in winter is baked sweet potato. You can warm your hands when holding it, your stomach when eating it, and your whole body is warm after eating. Winter is the season when a large number of sweet potatoes are on the market. Sweet potato is rich in mucin, so eating sweet potato in winter is very beneficial to our joint maintenance. In addition, eating sweet potatoes in winter also helps to improve our dry skin.
In winter, the weather is cold and dry, so you should drink more soup, especially light broth, which can replenish water to keep warm and strengthen your physique.
Mutton Soup
Mutton soup is a delicious soup in northern winter. It can be sold from morning till night, and even some mutton soup kitchens are open 24 hours a day. Mutton belongs to warm meat, and mutton soup stewed for a long time is more delicious in winter. Drinking a bowl of hot mutton soup early in the morning will make you feel warm all day, and drinking mutton soup in early winter is a dietary custom in many places in China!
Beef Soup
Because of the cold weather in winter, our bodies need more energy to drive away the cold, and beef is a kind of meat with high content of amino acids and protein. Drinking a bowl of mutton soup in cold winter can strengthen the body, and eating beef in winter can also warm the stomach, so drinking beef soup in winter is a very good choice.
crucian carp soup
There is an old saying called "winter crucian carp and summer carp", which means that when the crucian carp lays eggs in winter, the crucian carp at this time is very fat and suitable for making crucian carp soup. Cooking crucian carp soup in winter can be stewed with tofu, white radish and winter bamboo shoots. The crucian carp soup stewed in this way is not only milky white, but also delicious, and its nutritional value goes without saying.
pork rib soup
In Guangdong, beginning of winter's eating habit is to take tonics to keep out the cold. As we all know, Cantonese people love soup and are good at making soup. Pork ribs soup is the most popular one. Because of the dry weather in winter, we can add some side dishes, such as radish and lotus root, to the ribs soup. Beginning of winter drinks more sparerib soup, supplements nutrition, keeps fit, and is not afraid of cold.
Old duck soup
Many people think that duck meat is cold, and it is not suitable for drinking old duck soup in winter. In fact, this idea is wrong. In winter, the weather is dry and the virtual fire is strong, so it can't be repaired directly. The old duck soup cooked for a long time is cold. Drinking some properly can achieve the function of cooling and tonic, but it is of great benefit to our health.