Many people cook "medicated diet" at home every day, such as lily, lotus seed, yam, lotus root, chestnut, red dates, and even astragalus, ginseng, adenophora, medlar and so on. , is a commonly used ingredient in medicinal diet. However, some high-grade tonics such as ginseng and bird's nest are not suitable for all tonics. You should know more about the relevant knowledge before making them yourself. Generally, ingredients that nourish yin and moisten dryness should be selected in autumn, such as tremella, sesame, black-bone chicken, pig lung, soybean milk and honey. Dairy products, beans, fresh vegetables and fruits are rarely taboo, so you can eat more.
"Getting Energy from Natural Seasons" Xu Jiale, Executive Chef of Peninsula Pearl Hotel
As the saying goes, "After long summer, there is no disease and three points are empty". According to the principle of nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter, autumn and winter need tonic. Autumn is the freshest and fattest season for all kinds of seafood, and Guangdong chefs are good at nourishing health dishes with seafood dishes. Not to mention the well-known precious raw materials such as bird's nest, shark's fin, abalone and sea cucumber can make all kinds of high-grade delicacies, and even some ordinary seafood, many of them have very effective nourishing effects.
For example, Australian Oyster (also known as raw oyster) is highly regarded in western countries and Japan because of its delicious meat and comprehensive nutrition, which has the functions of tender skin, beauty, prevention of arteriosclerosis, antithrombosis, anti-aging, blood pressure lowering, yin beauty and body building. Chinese medicine also believes that oyster meat can strengthen the spleen and stomach, benefit qi and blood. Besides the dietotherapy function, oysters are plump, tender and delicious. When cooking, oysters can be made into sashimi, steamed, boiled in a bowl, roasted raw, fried oyster cakes, soup and so on. There are many kinds and tastes.
Zhang Zhiguo, Chef of Waterfront Soup Shop, said, "Adjust the intestines and stomach before serving soup".
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that after a long summer, the human body is prone to qi deficiency, and autumn dryness and evil spirits attack people, which makes people warm and replenish endogenous, so autumn is the season of nourishing yin and benefiting qi. However, because the stomach is the foundation of the human body, and the fundamental purpose of tonic is to absorb nutrition, so as to achieve the effect of regulating qi and blood and tonifying health. No amount of supplements can be absorbed if the gastrointestinal function is not good. Therefore, the most important thing for autumn tonic is to nurse the stomach. First of all, we should pay attention to food supplements. The food should be light, eat less greasy food, and eat more foods that promote fluid production, nourish yin, moisten and be juicy, especially those with rich nutrition and easy digestion. This is the fundamental principle of tonic soup.
On the other hand, soup is also an important part of China's food culture, and its history can be traced back to the herbal soup of Yuan Dynasty (1289). With the constant pursuit of health and longevity, the seasonal law of soup has been gradually discovered. The four seasons of Yin and Yang are the foundation of all things, nourishing Yang in spring and summer and Yin in winter and autumn, thus forming "four seasons and five supplements". In ancient times, there was a saying that "medicine is not as good as food, and food is not as good as soup". According to the data, the soup cooked by scientific methods is rich in six nutrients such as selenium, calcium, phosphorus and iron, as well as protein and multivitamins necessary for maintaining human health, which have irreplaceable functions in regulating human balance, accelerating metabolism, improving immunity, eliminating fatigue, strengthening physique, prolonging life and beauty beauty.