What food do you eat in the mild cold of the 24 solar terms?
Eat less bitter food and more sesame seeds, peanuts and pine nuts.
Cantonese people are very particular about diet therapy. The slight cold is due to the strong rust smell and weak kidney qi in the middle of winter. Therefore, the diet should be sweetened and bitter, nourishing the heart and lungs, and nourishing the kidneys. Chi Xiaoling said that the so-called "three nine make up one winter", but remember that slight cold can't make up for it. You can eat more mutton, beef, sesame seeds, walnuts, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, sticks, pine nuts, raisins and so on. In your diet, you can also combine medicated diet for nourishing.
1. Yam mutton soup (with the effects of invigorating the spleen and tonifying the kidney, warming the middle and lowering the bowels)
Ingredients: 500g of mutton, 50g of yam, 30g of onion,15g of ginger, 6g of pepper, 20g of yellow rice wine, 3g of refined salt and proper amount of monosodium glutamate.
Practice: remove the fascia from the mutton, wash it, cut it several times, then blanch it with boiling water to remove blood. Wash the onion and ginger, cut the onion into sections and break the ginger. Wash the yam, put the mutton and yam into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, first boil it with high fire, skim off the floating foam, add the onion, ginger, pepper and yellow wine, then stew it with low fire until the mutton is crisp and rotten, and then take it out and let it cool. Slice the mutton, put it in a bowl, then remove the onion and ginger from the original soup, add refined salt and monosodium glutamate, stir well, and put it in a mutton bowl with yam.
2. Stewed quail with Pseudostellaria heterophylla (with the effect of nourishing five internal organs and benefiting middle qi)
Ingredients: quail meat 250g, lean pork100g, codonopsis pilosula15g, yam 30g, longan meat10g, medlar15g, Euryale ferox10g.
Practice: Wash quail meat and lean pork, cut into pieces, wash Codonopsis pilosula, Chinese yam, longan pulp, Lycium barbarum and Euryale ferox, put them together in a casserole, boil them with strong fire, then stew them with low fire for 1.5 hours, and add refined salt.
3. Polygalae jujube porridge (with nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing blood and calming the nerves)
Materials: polygala tenuifolia10g, Ziziphus jujuba seed10g, and japonica rice 50g.
Practice: Wash polygala tenuifolia, jujube kernels and japonica rice. Put the japonica rice into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, bring it to a boil with high fire, then add the polygala tenuifolia and jujube kernels, and cook it with low fire until the rice porridge is thick.
4. Steamed chicken with yam and medlar (with the effect of invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney)
Ingredients: Broiler 1 chicken (about 1 1,000g), Astragalus membranaceus15g, Codonopsis pilosula 20g, Dioscorea opposita 40g, Lycium barbarum 30g, Lentinus edodes 20g, bamboo shoots 25g, and appropriate seasoning.
Practice: Slaughter the broiler, take out the internal organs and wash them for later use; Wash Radix Astragali, Radix Codonopsis, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Fructus Lycii, Lentinus Edodes, and bamboo shoots, put them into chicken, sew the chicken incision, put them on a clean plate, and steam them in a steamer for about 1 hour.
5. Stewed chicken eggs with Polygonum multiflorum Thunb (with the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, benefiting qi and nourishing blood)
Ingredients: 2 eggs, 30g of Polygonum Multiflori Radix, 0g of hawthorn15g, 6g of dried tangerine peel, proper amount of soy sauce, star anise, refined salt, sugar and ginger slices.
Practice: Put the eggs, soy sauce, refined salt, star anise, sugar and ginger slices into a casserole, cook them with slow fire for 20 minutes, take out the eggs, soak them in cold water, peel off the eggshells, then put the shelled eggs into the casserole, cook them for about 15 minutes, and remove the residues.