Medicinal diet therapy: "water chestnut, the next Stan, dispel wind and detoxify, except for excess heat in the chest." Can be used as powder food. Clear eyes and ears, quench thirst and turn yellow. If you have air conditioning first, you can't eat it, which makes people feel bloated and full of gas. Children eat in autumn, and their navel hurts. "
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Cure thirst and arthralgia-heat, warm the middle energizer, replenish qi, reduce Dan, dispel wind and detoxify. Except for the real heat in my chest. "
Doctor's mirror of Roche Club: "Water chestnut can benefit qi and middle energizer, stimulate appetite and promote digestion, clear away heat and promote fluid production, stop dysentery and thirst, treat jaundice and destroy copper by blood."
Danggui horseshoe barley porridge
[Ingredients] angelica 15g, water chestnut 30g, coix seed 100g.
[Production method] Slice Angelica sinensis, put it in a pot and cook for 30 minutes, remove the residue, add water chestnut and coix seed to cook porridge, and add honey to eat after taking out the pot. 【 Function 】 Clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis. Suitable for sore throat, phlegm-heat cough, upset and thirsty. Angelica polysaccharide contained in Angelica sinensis can obviously enhance human immunity and prevent cancer.
Spicy diced chicken [the name of a Chinese dish cooked with diced chicken and Chili]
Raw materials: tender chicken 150g, dried starch 6g, pickled pepper 6g, soy sauce, white sugar, refined salt, chrysanthemum, ginger, wet starch, yellow wine, balsamic vinegar, monosodium glutamate, 1 egg and water chestnut.
Practice: ① Dice the chicken, add egg white, dry starch and refined salt, mix well, put the diced water chestnut and ingredients into a hot oil frying pan, drain the oil after 10 second, and add pickled pepper, onion and ginger to fry until cooked; (2) Mix sugar, yellow wine, soy sauce with wet starch and vinegar, pour into the pot and stir-fry for a few times.
Dragon and phoenix ruyi Juan (auspicious ruyi)
Ingredients: eggs, shrimp paste, water chestnut, seaweed.
Practice: first fry the egg liquid into egg skin, cut the water chestnut into powder, and mix in the shrimp sauce. Spread shrimp sauce and seaweed on the egg skin in turn, roll it from both sides to the middle, wrap it with plastic wrap, steam it in an electric rice cooker, and slice it. Nutritionist: The stuffing of this dish is not fat, and it is steamed, so it is more oily than the fish rolls and shrimp rolls sold outside.
Water chestnut lion head
Ingredients: peeled 5 water chestnuts, 300g lean meat stuffing, 50g Chinese cabbage, 5g salt, 20g soy sauce, 0/5g sugar 1 egg, raw flour, chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine and wet starch.
Methods: 1. Make water chestnut into rice grain size, mix it into meat stuffing, add salt, eggs, cooking wine, wet starch, monosodium glutamate and minced onion and ginger, and mix well to make four big balls. 2. After the wok is on fire, pour in the oil. When the oil is hot, add the meatballs and fry until both sides are yellow stone. Cook the cooking wine, add soy sauce, pour the sugar into the stock, simmer for 15 minutes, put the lion's head in a basin with a cabbage pad, and pour the marinade on the noodles.
Features: fresh and crisp, salty and sweet, red and green contrast.
How to eat water chestnut:
1, dried in spring, and a large number of water chestnuts are not easy to preserve. In Wuwei, Anhui Province, farmers who plant water chestnuts will expose them to the sun, which will last longer and the dried water chestnuts will also be preserved.
2, making water chestnut powder like lotus root, water chestnut can be made into powder, and then brewed. Everyone only knows that there is lotus root starch, but little is known about water chestnut powder (commonly known as fruit powder in Anhui Wuwei), and the production method is basically the same as lotus root starch. It is thicker than lotus root starch and tastes more refreshing when brewed. If the scale is expanded, there will be a broad market. Reference answer: Baidu Encyclopedia