Therefore, taking care of the elderly should be like taking care of children, not only with careful companionship at ordinary times, but also with a reasonable diet.
"Grandma's Recipe" column group, in nearly 200 days of shooting, they are committed to finding rural specialties. Among them, 6 kinds of health foods suitable for the elderly were found. I hope the elderly can eat healthier and have better health!
Steamed meat with salted duck eggs
Duck eggs are rich in nutrients, including amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, iron, trace elements and vitamins. , easily absorbed by the human body, suitable for all ages.
If you are worried that the salted duck eggs bought outside will add various additives, then the safest way is to pickle them yourself. However, what ingredients are used to combine fresh and delicious salted duck eggs perfectly?
Steamed meat pie with salted duck eggs in Shangrao, Jiangxi, the method is very simple. Slice and chop pork, and mix ginger and minced meat evenly. Wash the duck eggs, yellow them, put them on the patties, and steam for 15 minutes.
Compared with eggs, duck eggs have a heavier smell, which can be diluted after being salted with salt water. In taste, salted duck eggs are also more tender and delicious.
Yam wubao decoction
These dishes are characterized by tenderness and sweetness. There is a unique dessert in the local area, which is healthy and delicious. This is the secret of local people's health and longevity. It's sweet soup with Wubaoshan medicine.
The dishes contain various healthy ingredients, such as sweet-scented osmanthus balls, lotus root starch balls, medlar and fermented grains. After simple stewing, a variety of flavors are blended together to become a unique authentic Taizhou cuisine.
Yam is called the medicine in food. It can promote digestion of spleen and stomach, relieve weakness of spleen and stomach, regulate blood sugar, prevent blood sugar from rising, and remove cholesterol and fat from blood vessel wall. It can prevent vascular aging, improve human immunity and reduce the occurrence of cancer.
Dice yam and add water. Mix lotus root dough, glutinous rice and sweet wine into the pot and cook. Stew peanut butter, yam, longan in turn, sprinkle with dried medlar, and your stomach will be sweet and warm.
Fish noodle soup
There is an old saying in Taizhou: There is water in the bag in the morning and water in the skin at night? There must be fish noodle soup in this water.
I don't know when it started. Fish noodle soup became the "finale" of Taizhou morning tea. A bowl of thick fish noodle soup is served, full of frankincense, refreshing but not greasy. Take a sip and feel satisfied.
Fish noodle soup is generally made of eel, crucian carp or snakehead, which is fried first and then cooked to make pure white soup; Noodles are generally hand-processed, soft and firm, and fish soup is a perfect match.
The snakehead is fresh, tender and delicious, with high nutritional value. It is suitable for people with physical weakness, hypoproteinemia, spleen and stomach weakness and malnutrition. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a precious tonic for the elderly.
Broth ball
In Suichuan, Ji 'an, Jiangxi Province, meatballs in broth with fresh pork are an essential main course for New Year's Eve dinner.
Chop pork belly, mix with peanut-flavored cold potato chips and onions, then wrap it with smooth special potato powder, roll it into balls slightly larger than glass balls in the palm of your hand, and cook it into fresh soup. The taste is soft and elastic, and it tastes thin and sweet, fresh but not greasy.
Just out of the pot, the broth meatballs are like marbles, chewy, fresh and nutritious, and have the effect of nourishing yin and nourishing the stomach. When having a family reunion dinner, I often see my grandparents at home. As soon as they eat the meatballs in their mouths, they will put some into the bowl for the children to eat.
Healthy noodles
Zhejiang Jinyun health noodles, the full name is actually saffron soil refreshing noodles. Because of its long life and good luck, outsiders call it health noodles.
Health noodles are the same as those cooked at home. First, stir-fry vegetables, shredded pork and eggs until they are about 6 ripe. Add enough water to boil, and then add noodles. Add chopped shallots and pour lard, which is salty and chewy.
But it has its own unique craft. In traditional noodles, the precious spice saffron is creatively added, which makes noodles have higher nutritional value, smoother and more unique taste and bright color.
The market price of saffron is 60,000 yuan 1 kg, which is recorded in ancient books as follows:
"Eating, drinking and drinking are just about to happen": the main mind suppresses depression, and long-term eating makes people happy.
Essentials of taste and benefit: dispelling depression, regulating blood, widening chest and diaphragm, appetizing into diet, nourishing body for a long time, pleasing color and treating typhoid fever.
Outline: activating blood circulation to treat convulsion.
The production technology of saffron noodles is an ancient skill you have never seen before. Proofing the dough, stretching, fermenting, performing secondary fermentation on the blank with chopsticks, and finally inserting the chopsticks hung on the blank into the wooden shelf on the door, naturally drying, and breaking to obtain the finished product. Unique taste and excellent nutrition. So Jinyun can be called? Land of longevity? .