Gourmet food, as the name suggests, is delicious food, the expensive ones are delicacies of the sea, and the cheap ones are street snacks. In fact, food is not divided into expensive and cheap, as long as it is their favorite, can be called food. Here is what I help you organize the equinox season suitable to eat what food is good, for your reference, I hope to help friends in need.
1, what to eat on the vernal equinox: burdock corn Huai Shan soup
Ingredients: burdock, corn, Huai Shan.
Practice: wash, peel, cut hobnail block; burdock clean, scrape the surface of the skin with the back of the knife, diagonally cut thick slices; jujube washed, flattened to remove the kernel; boil the water in the pot, put all the materials, martial arts fire cook for 20 minutes, turn the fire to cook for an hour and a half, under the salt can be consumed.
Functions: enhance physical strength, laxative detoxification, moisturize the skin, moisturize the dry throat.
2, what to eat on the vernal equinox: old duck bamboo shoots soup
Ingredients: old duck 1 (about 750 grams), bamboo shoots 150 grams, a little bit of wolfberry.
Practice: Wash the old duck, remove the duck head, duck tail and fat oil, cut pieces of water with clean water for 20 minutes, the water drained. Bamboo shoots with water soaked soft wash, pinch the head to remove the tail, take the middle section of the shredded. All the ingredients together into the pot, add water 1500-20xx ml, large fire boil roll, turn the fire slow cook for about 4 hours, start the pot with salt to taste.
Functions: Spring weather is dry, easy to rise in the virtual fire, this soup can nourish yin and tonic kidney, strengthen the body, clean up the stomach and intestines. Soup is cold, especially suitable for people who have heat in the body, fire, can help digestion and relieve constipation and so on.
3, what to eat on the vernal equinox: amaranth, tofu, fish head soup
Ingredients: amaranth 600 grams, tofu 2 blocks, a large fish head (about 600 grams), ginger moderate.
Method: each thing washed, amaranth cut into sections; tofu cut into blocks; fish head gills, start the oil wok burst incense ginger, fried until slightly yellow when splashing into a little hot water. In the pot add 1500 ml of water (about 6 bowls), martial arts fire after boiling, under the things boiling after changing the fire boil about 45 minutes, under the salt can be.
Effect: Chinese medicine also believes that amaranth can clear heat, detoxification, laxative. With tofu rolled fish head, there is a healthy and tonic deficiency, remove the head wind, heat and laxative effect, is the spring beneficial family soup, and men and women, young and old, and inexpensive, easy to cook.
4, what to eat on the vernal equinox: monkey head mushroom chicken soup
Ingredients: monkey head mushroom 50 grams, 25 grams of Ganoderma lucidum, 300 grams of chicken, 25 grams of Chinese mountain, 25 grams of fried barley, Chen Pi four points a piece, ginger two or three pieces.
Practice: first, the monkey head mushroom, Huai Shan with light salt water soak 1 hour, drain the water, and then slightly soak a dip in the water, and then drain, repeated two or three times. Chicken fly water, add 3000 ml of water (about 12 bowls of water), and ginger, Chen Pi with into the tile pot, martial arts fire boil roll, and then the rest of the materials together into the tile pot, boil about 1.5 hours, seasoning the right amount of salt can be.
Functions: tonifying the spleen and qi, digestion, suitable for weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, loss of appetite and other diseases.
5, what to eat on the vernal equinox: tripe barley soup
Ingredients: 250 grams of tripe, 30 grams of barley, 30 grams of lentils, salt.
Practice: first tripe with boiling water, and then use a knife to scrape off the black membrane, wash and spare; with water, barley, lentils, wash, spare; soup pot add water, and will be put into the tripe, to be boiled with a small fire after stewing to tripe soft; add barley and lentils, and then cook for half an hour; tripe fish out and cut into strips, and then back to the soup pot, with the right amount of salt to taste that is complete.
Functions: Strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness. Tripe spleen and stomach, the virtual loss; Job's tears have the spleen and dampness, pus and tendons and other effects. The two together and cooked into a soup, the nature of peace, not cold and not dry, has the effect of strengthening the spleen to dispel dampness.
6, what to eat on the vernal equinox: Chinese mountain barley raw fish soup
Materials: raw fish 1, 15 grams of Chinese mountain, 15 grams of barley, a small piece of Chen Pi, 100 grams of lean meat, ginger 3 pieces.
Methods: wash the slaughtered raw fish, chopped into several sections; Chinese mountain and barley clean; Chen Pi softened with water, scrape off the white pith; pat cracked a small piece of ginger, hot pot, rubbed once with ginger on the pot, put two tablespoons of oil, when the oil is sixty percent of the heat under the fish, fry until slightly yellow; boiling water in the wok, put the fried raw fish and other materials, martial arts boiled, turn to medium-low heat boil for an hour and a half, under the salt seasoning can be tasted.
Functions: strengthen the spleen to remove dampness, nourish the Yin and supplement the deficiency, to solve the spring sleepiness.
Points of health at the spring equinox
1. Spring equinox health to suppress the liver yang
According to China's traditional point of view of health, the liver of the climate change is the most sensitive. According to Chinese medicine, the spring and summer seasons change, the liver yang is easy to hyperactivity, the liver wind is easy to move, will lead to a sudden rise in blood pressure, emotional fluctuations and even the risk of stroke.
So that in this time of year hypertension patients should pay attention to avoid mental stimulation, but also pay attention to maintain a relaxed mood, you can choose to eat some of the vegetables that calm the liver yang to lower blood pressure, to prevent and control.
So, before and after the vernal equinox, we must pay attention to avoid emotional fluctuations, no matter what things we encounter, we must maintain a good state of mind to face.
2. living health skillfully prevent disease
Yangchun March, is the season of recovery of all things, heaven and earth, all show vitality, grass and trees to prosperity. White-collar workers should be appropriate late to bed and early to get up, to the courtyard to walk, hair, Shu Zhang body, so that the spirit of the spring with the angry and vigorous.
Before and after the equinox, the climate is gradually warming, the activities of the body's various systems will also be enhanced, so that the load of each organ is seriously increased, so the central nervous system will produce a sedative, hypnotic effect, so that our bodies feel sleepy, that is, the folk said that the spring sleepy.
3. Spring equinox health to help the spleen and stomach
Spring is the season of chronic gastritis and gastric ulcers are most likely to recur, because of the spring of the liver, and in the traditional Chinese medicine organs of the phases of the liver, liver and wood spleen earth, if the liver is too strong, it will be spleen earth, the spleen and stomach have a bad effect, seriously impede the normal digestion and absorption of food. The most important thing to remember is that the liver is the most important part of the body.
Sweet food can nourish the spleen and stomach, in Chinese medicine, the five flavors, sour taste into the liver, the nature of the astringent, if this time to eat more sour food, is not conducive to the spring of the birth of Yang Qi, the spleen and stomach will have a bad effect.
We can eat sweet food: jujube, yam, millet, rice, glutinous rice, lentils, soybeans, spinach, carrots, pumpkin, black fungus, mushrooms, cinnamon, chestnuts and other food, often eat these can improve our body's immunity, but also reduce the chances of suffering from infectious diseases such as influenza.
4. Awareness of disease prevention before and after the equinoxes should be strengthened
The spring equinoxes are prone to diarrhea, and the tongue is white, weak pulse, cold below the waist, the most important feature is the meal leakage. And because the spring is more windy, Chinese medicine believes that the wind and wood grams spleen and earth, plain spleen deficiency tongue coating white good diarrhea is more likely to have abdominal pain symptoms, the pain is very obvious.
Therefore, the best way, is to minimize the wind outdoors when the wind is strong, you can take Li Zhong pill under the guidance of the doctor. Around the vernal equinox, it is important to prevent letting yourself get cold.
When cooking, use a little more dry ginger, because dry ginger can effectively warm the middle.
And it's easy to catch a cold around the vernal equinox, so when the wind is not too strong, go outdoors more often to exercise and strengthen your immune system.
Vernal Equinox dietary practices
1, eat spring vegetables
In the old days, there was a Siyi customs, called "spring equinox eat spring vegetables". "Spring vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the townspeople called "spring artemisia". On the day of the spring equinox, everyone in the village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the fields, they are often seen to be tender and green, thin and about as long as the palm of your hand. The spring vegetables picked back to the general home and fish "soup", the name is "spring soup". There is a jingle: "spring soup to fill the dirty, wash the liver and intestines. The whole family, young and old, safe and healthy." Slowly, this has become a custom. Since the spring of the year, people still pray for peace and quiet at home, strong and healthy.
2, radish
Yangzhou people also eat radish or radish filling the buns at the equinox, spring rolls custom. This time to eat radish can not only up and down through the gas, but also play a disease, the effect of spring fever.
Spring health care in a variety of vegetables, the best effect when the radish. White radish has a heat and fluids, qi, digestion and phlegm effect, raw in favor of heat and fluids, cooked in favor of qi digestion, spring consumption, available to prevent and control phlegm cough, sore throat, bloating, constipation and other symptoms. Modern medicine believes that radish has a good diuretic effect, the fiber contained can also promote defecation, conducive to weight loss. If you want to use radish to detoxify, you can choose to eat raw, beat into juice or cold, pickled can be.
Folk think "radish head spicy, tail dry, waist just right", experts also reminded, radish section to eat, nutrition is different: the top of the radish contains the most vitamin C, it is appropriate to stir-fry and cook soup; the middle section of the sugar content is high, can be shredded and cold; the tail spicy, containing amylase and mustard oil, suitable for pickling. ...... usually less people at home when a large carrot a time to eat, you can vertically cut open and eat half, so that the head of the radish, waist, tail are in the dish, nutritionally balanced.
3, donkey roll
In accordance with the customs of the old Beijing, the equinoxes have to eat donkey roll, in order to avoid evil and pray for luck. Donkey rolls have a remarkable history, just look at its processing materials include rhubarb rice noodles, soybean noodles, red bean paste, sugar, sesame oil, cinnamon, green and red silk and melon kernels, enough to comply with the nutritional dietary guidelines on the diversity of ingredients this one. The production of donkey rolls is divided into three processes: making, stuffing and molding. The outer layer of the donkey rolls is covered with bean flour and is golden yellow in color, with a sweet bean aroma and soft filling, which is a unique flavor that is suitable for both young and old.
Donkey rolls, also known as soybean flour cake, soybean flour cake, no doubt, with soybean flour as the main raw material. Together with the bean filling and other typical protein complementary food. Each hundred grams of donkey roll contains 194 kcal of caloric energy; 8.2 grams of protein; 0.2 grams of fat, 41.8 grams of carbohydrates. In addition, it also contains vitamins, calcium and other micronutrients.
But here I also remind you, donkey roll although delicious, nutritional value is also good, but do not consume too much, after all, it contains a lot of sugar, eat too much will be energy overload, but also easy to elevate blood sugar. In addition to the soft and sticky ingredients, too much intake is not easy to digest. Therefore, donkey roll as a traditional food, in the festive season, you can taste shallow, infinite aftertaste.
4, sun cake
"Sun cake, step by step". According to the old Beijing custom, on the day of the spring equinox, the sun god should be worshipped, "please" eat sun cake. The sun cake is not only a tribute for the spring equinox festival, but also a seasonal food, which means "high sun". Not only is the symbolism of the "sun cake" good, but also the glutinous rice and the filling of the set is also in line with the spring "should be more acid sweet" concept of health.
The sun cake is generally made of glutinous rice and sugar, with a red water print of the head of the three-legged chicken Xingjun (Golden Rooster) hair image, or on top of the mold pressed out "golden bird round light" on behalf of the sun god. Sun cake every five pieces for a bowl, the top is also inserted into a more than an inch high surface pinch chickens, very joyful.
This "Sun Cake" is made of glutinous rice and filled with jujube paste, with white gourd kernels and secret osmanthus flowers added to the filling, symbolizing a prosperous New Year. The weather is mild and sunny during the equinox, so you should eat glutinous rice and jujube to regulate the balance of body functions and adapt to the changes of the season.