It will be hot tomorrow, as the saying goes, "the heat is not bitter, but the body is bitter." How should we "suffer"?

"As soon as the sun passes, the breeze is nowhere to be found", the last solar term of summer has come, and the hot summer has dedicated its last enthusiasm. The tough "sauna day" is enough to make people breathless. It's very hot and my appetite is poor. Even a table of delicious food is hard to have an appetite. It's time to adjust your diet so that you can spend the solar term energetically.

There is a folk saying that "you don't feel uncomfortable in the heat, your body will feel uncomfortable." "Bitter" means eating more bitter ingredients. The old tradition holds that most bitter ingredients are "cool" and have the effect of clearing away heat and appetizing, such as bitter gourd, bitter chrysanthemum, lotus seeds and dandelion. When you suffer hardships, your appetite will increase, your nutrition will keep up, and your body will not suffer.

Tomorrow is hot, I recommend five cooking methods of "bitter ingredients". Before and after the hot summer, it is recommended to eat more and spend this difficult summer comfortably.

As the old saying goes, "lotus seeds are pure in heart" can be eaten and used as medicine. In fact, it is also a good bitter ingredient. It is mentioned in Medicine for Jade Barley that "lotus seeds are sweet and beneficial to the spleen and stomach". The cooking methods of lotus seeds are both sweet and salty. You can add some when cooking porridge or stewing soup, which is a very good auxiliary material.

Recommended recipe: Shen Si soup.

Required ingredients: lotus seeds, Poria cocos, Euryale ferox seeds, dried Chinese yam, apples, candied dates and dried tangerine peel.

1, lotus seed, dried yam, Euryale euryales and Poria cocos each 15g, soaked in clear water for about 1 hour, and soaked in dried tangerine peel.

2. Add enough water to the boiling pot, add the soaked lotus seeds, dried yam, Gordon Euryale seed and Poria, and cook for about half an hour.

3. Clean the apple, peel it and cut it into small pieces, and put it in the pot with tangerine peel and candied dates to cook for about 10 minute. Both candied dates and apples are sweet. After stewing, the sweetness will be integrated into the soup without adding sugar to sweeten it.

Dried tangerine peel tastes slightly bitter and has always been a good ingredient for both medicine and food. Add tangerine peel to the soup in dog days, which is fragrant and appetizing, which is perfect.

Recommended recipe: Tremella Chenpi Peach Gum Soup

Required ingredients: tremella, dried tangerine peel, peach gum 1, rock sugar.

1. Soak tremella and peach gum in advance until the ingredients are completely soaked, shred tremella and wash peach gum to remove impurities.

2. Soak the dried tangerine peel with clear water, scrape off the white film on the dried tangerine peel with a knife to remove the bitterness of the dried tangerine peel, and the boiled soup is more delicious.

3. Add an appropriate amount of water to the casserole, pour the peach gum and dried tangerine peel into the casserole, turn to low heat and continue to cook for 30 minutes after boiling, and boil the peach gum and tremella gum to make the soup viscous.

4. Shred the washed tangerine peel and put it in a pot to cook for about 10 minutes. You can smell the fresh fragrance of dried tangerine peel, and add some rock sugar to turn off the heat.

Bitter gourd is a classic bitter food, which has the quality of "don't pass on your own bitterness to others" and is one of the vegetables that must be eaten in summer. You can eat bitter gourd properly in summer, and your mood may be suddenly enlightened and your body will relax.

Recommended recipe: fried pork slices with bitter gourd

Ingredients: bitter gourd, tenderloin, garlic, dried pepper.

1. Cut bitter bitter melon in half, cut it into strips for later use, chop garlic and dried pepper, shred tenderloin, put it in a bowl, add 1 spoon cooking wine, soy sauce and appropriate amount of salt, and marinate for 10 minute to taste evenly.

2. Add 1 tablespoon oil and a little salt into the boiling water pot, and pour in the bitter gourd strips for about 30 seconds to remove the bitter taste of bitter gourd.

3. Pour a small amount of oil into the wok. After the oil temperature is 60%, add dried Chili and ginger slices and stir-fry until fragrant. Pour in blanched bitter gourd and stir-fry for 2 minutes.

4, add 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce, salt, stir fry again.

Old people at home always like to eat cold bitter chrysanthemum on a hot day. Chrysanthemum morifolium belongs to Compositae, which has a unique fragrance of essential oil, refreshing, relieving boredom, appetizing and relieving summer heat, and sufficient water. It is a rare good food in summer.

Recommended recipe: cold bitter chrysanthemum

Prepare ingredients: fresh bitter chrysanthemum, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 slice of ginger, dried pepper and white sesame.

1. Remove the old leaves from a handful of fresh bitter chrysanthemum, break the leaves clean, pat three cloves of garlic flat, peel and chop it into powder, and peel and cut a small piece of ginger into powder.

2. Juice-making: Put minced garlic, Jiang Mo, dried chili and white sesame into a small bowl, sprinkle 65,438+0 tablespoons of hot oil to stimulate garlic fragrance, air-dry until it is slightly cool, add 65,438+0 tablespoons of soy sauce, 65,438+0 tablespoons of aged vinegar, half a spoonful of sugar and appropriate amount of salt, and stir evenly to fully melt and blend the seasoning.

3. Put the bitter chrysanthemum in a big bowl, pour the prepared juice on it and stir it evenly when eating.

Dandelion has both sweetness and bitterness, especially its unique dandelion alcohol and dandelion element, which can resist the hot summer. Many people use it to make tea, which has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. I want to share with you a method of making dandelion tea.

Recommended recipe: homemade dandelion tea.

1. Pick fresh dandelions and go home. Roots and flowers do not need to be removed. Just put it in clear water for several times, wash it clean, and put it in a bamboo basket for a day until it is half dry.

2. After the dandelion is dried, put it in a steamer and steam for about 5 minutes. This step can't be saved, and it can also remove the green smell of dandelion.

3. Take dandelion out of the steamer and spread it on the chopping board to dry the water, put it in a frying pan without water and oil, and continue to fry the water with high fire.

4. When the dandelion is dry, turn to low heat and stir fry slowly and continuously until the dandelion turns dark brown, then turn off the fire, let it cool, put it in a jar and seal it, and carry it with you.