What food do people often eat during the slight cold season in Northeast China?
Ingredients: glutinous rice 1 cup, adzuki bean100g, raisins, peanuts, lotus seeds, red dates, dried longan, pine nuts 50g each and sugar 300g.
Practice: Wash and soak glutinous rice for one night, and wash and soak adzuki beans for about 4 hours. Put adzuki beans, lotus seeds and peanut kernels into an inner pot and add 6 cups of tobacco leaf water, then move them into an electric pot, add 1 cup of water to the outer pot and steam until the switch is switched off; Add glutinous rice, add 1 cup of water to the outer pot, and continue steaming until the switch jumps; Add red dates and dried longan, heat half a cup of water in an outer pot, continue steaming until the switch jumps, and then add 300 grams of pine nuts, raisins and sugar.
Efficacy: Laba porridge has the effect of invigorating spleen and kidney and tonifying deficiency. Among them, glutinous rice has the function of warming spleen and benefiting qi, which is suitable for people with low spleen and stomach function. Peanut has many functions, such as moistening lung, harmonizing stomach, relieving cough and diuresis.
2, longan porridge
Ingredients: 30g dried longan, 50g japonica rice, and proper amount of sugar.
Practice: Wash the japonica rice and put it in the pot, and dry the longan for later use. Add appropriate amount of water to cook porridge, add longan meat to cook several times when it is almost cooked, and add sugar.
Efficacy: Longan can be used as medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is warm in nature, sweet in taste, enters the heart and spleen meridian, and has many effects such as strengthening yang and benefiting qi, nourishing heart and spleen, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. Can be used for treating anemia, palpitation, insomnia, amnesia, neurasthenia and physical weakness after illness.