Cooked potatoes, yams and wild mushrooms are often added to warm salads.
At present, most of the warm salads seen in the market are mainly lettuce, plus some cooked root foods such as potatoes, yams, wild mushrooms and other ingredients, and even cooked seafood ingredients such as shrimp and cuttlefish, and some will also add nuts. Warm salad is not high in calories, but it feels full. A hot salad is enough to replace a dinner. No wonder girls love it.
In fact, by contrast, the word "warm" salad has actually been popular in Europe for a long time. The biggest difference from ordinary salad is that it tastes warm, even the sauce is warm. Among them, the ingredients include hot food that can make people feel full, such as toast, steak, rice and so on. Even vegetables are baked or fried.
Generally, lettuce salad is cool and not suitable for deficiency cold.
Warm salad is healthy and full, which changes people's view of traditional salad! How does Chinese medicine treat warm salad or warm salad? Dr. Liao, director of the Traditional Medical Association of the Republic of China, said that the general lettuce salad is from cold to cold, which is really not suitable for people with deficiency and cold constitution.
Especially in cold weather, people always want to eat hot food. At this time, if they eat lettuce salad or cold food in the refrigerator, their stomachs, which should be warm, are also vulnerable to cold.
Female Chinese medicine practitioner: Warm salad is not as good as cooked food.
In particular, people with allergic rhinitis, cold hands and feet, colds and headaches, and women in physiological periods may feel uncomfortable after eating too much. As for the popular hot salad, lettuce is eaten with cooked meat, seafood or other cooked ingredients and topped with hot sauce. This warm salad is not as cold as the lettuce salad taken out of the refrigerator. It is better to eat in winter, but be careful to catch cold because of lettuce.
Dr. Liao Qianhui said that from the point of view of Chinese medicine, although yam and potato, which often appear in warm salad dishes, belong to the flat ingredients, the basic ingredients of warm salad dishes are lettuce. It is not recommended to eat too much lettuce or cold food just taken out of the refrigerator. It is recommended to eat cooked and warm food. If you are cold and want to increase your vegetable intake, it is recommended to eat cooked vegetables, whether they are simply scalded, steamed, fried or cooked into vegetable soup.
Cooked vegetables are slightly cold and should be served with onions, ginger and garlic.
If it's just taken out of the refrigerator, or it's already cold, you should heat it before eating. However, even if most fruits and vegetables are cooked, they are still slightly cold, so it is best to mix them with warm spices such as onion, ginger and garlic when cooking.