Zhang Hua in the Eastern Jin Dynasty explained the "worry-free" of day lily in the Natural History: "Day lily makes people happy and forget their worries, so it is called a girl without worries."

Day lily has a long history of eating, and its processing and eating methods can be found by reading Qunfangpu, Notes on Wild Vegetables and Eight Notes on Respect for Life. Today, day lily is still a frequent visitor to many family tables. Whether it's making noodles with noodles, or putting a handful when cooking or making soup, it's very delicious. But you may not know that day lily, as one of the "four vegetarian delicacies", has high medicinal value and is a good food with the same origin of medicine and food.

nutritive value

Don't underestimate it, day lily is at least rich in 14 amino acids needed by the human body, which can help the body to keep fit. Spring is in an active period of metabolism, and eating day lily is better than eating meat.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the dietary fiber content of day lily ranks second among common vegetables, reaching 7.7 grams per 100 grams, higher than bamboo shoots and soybeans!

Doctors in past dynasties spoke highly of daylily. For example, Hua Tuo once wrote that "there is no treasure in Modao farmers, and gold is everywhere in yellow flowers".

Chinese medicine believes that day lily is sweet and cool, and has the effects of stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation, clearing away heat, diuresis, promoting digestion, improving eyesight and calming the nerves.

Edible efficacy

1, brain strengthening and intelligence improving

Day lily is called "brain tonic" and is rich in lecithin, which is a component of many cells in the body, especially brain cells.

Lecithin plays an important role in enhancing and improving brain function, and at the same time, it helps to remove deposits in arteries, which is of great help to inattention and memory loss. Therefore, the elderly and children often eat it to improve memory and promote brain development.

2. Lowering blood pressure and regulating blood lipid level

Day lily is also called "lipid-lowering vegetable". It is found that day lily can help reduce the content of serum cholesterol, so it has the function of regulating blood lipid level and helping to lower blood pressure, especially suitable for people with three highs.

3. Prevention and treatment of insomnia

Daylily can make people forget their troubles. Day lily has the effect of calming the nerves and preventing insomnia.

4, clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing liver fire

Day lily is sweet and cool, which can clear away heat and promote diuresis, relieve depression, cool blood and detoxify. People with liver fire can eat some daylily in moderation, which can soothe the nerves, reduce dryness and release fire.

Eating daylily like this can double the nutrition.

Cold day lily

Material day lily 200 grams; Three millet peppers; Two spoonfuls of sesame oil and two spoonfuls of aged vinegar; A spoonful of salt; Appropriate amount of fruit and vegetable powder; Two parsley, Jiang Mo.

working methods

1. Daylily is soaked in advance, and all ingredients are cut into sections for later use;

2. Boil the water in the pot and blanch the daylily for five minutes;

3. Heat oil in another pot, add Jiang Mo and stir-fry the millet pepper;

4. Add fruit and vegetable powder into the cold day lily and stir evenly;

5. Pour vinegar, salt and coriander into the fried Jiang Mo and prepare the sauce;

6. Stir the prepared sauce and day lily evenly;

7. Finally, add sesame oil to add fragrance, and you can go out!

Tomato and golden needle soup

Ingredients: 200g of spring vegetables, tomato 1 piece, 20g of day lily, 50g of Flammulina velutipes, 4 slices of ginger, salt and oil.

working methods

1. Wash the day lily after soaking;

2. Cut off the roots of Flammulina velutipes and wash them; Cut tomatoes into pieces; Sliced ginger;

3. Wash and cut the spring vegetables;

4. Add 5 bowls of water to the pot and add ginger slices to boil;

5. Add other ingredients, boil and turn to medium heat for 20 minutes, and season with salt and oil.

Steamed chicken with day lily

Ingredients: 500g chicken, 30g dried day lily, 5 mushrooms, ginger 1 root, onion 1 spoon, cooking wine 1 spoon, starch 1 spoon, salt 1 spoon, soy sauce 1 spoon.

working methods

1. Mushrooms are soaked in advance, cleaned and cut into small pieces for later use;

2. Soak the dried daylily until soft, shred the ginger and cut the shallots into chopped green onion;

3. Chop the chicken into small pieces, put them into a soup basin, add shredded ginger, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soy sauce, 1 teaspoon soup and 1 teaspoon starch, and grab them evenly, then add day lily and mushrooms, and add 2 teaspoons peanut oil, and grab them evenly;

4. Put it on the steamer. After the steamer is started, put it into the steamer and steam for 12 minutes, then sprinkle with chopped green onion.

Day lily sparerib soup

Ingredients: dried day lily 1 bar, medlar 1 bar, ribs 700g, salt, pepper 1 teaspoon, 4 slices of ginger, 2 tablespoons of cooking wine.

working methods

1. Wash the ribs and cut them into small pieces for later use. Soak and wash red jujube slices with Lycium barbarum and day lily twice.

2. Boil the ribs in cold water for 5 minutes, remove and wash off the floating foam;

3. Put the ribs in the pot again, add appropriate amount of water, add ginger slices, pepper and cooking wine, and slice the red dates and medlar;

4. Take out the day lily and put it in the pot, then turn to low heat and stew for 40 minutes. Season with salt.

Precautions for eating

1. Don't eat more.

However, fresh day lily contains a kind of "colchicine" substance, which is non-toxic, but it is very toxic after being absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract and oxidized into "colchicine" in the body. So when eating fresh food, don't eat more every time.

Soak before eating

Because the toxic components of fresh day lily will be weakened or disappeared at the high temperature of 60 degrees, when eating, you should first blanch the fresh day lily with boiling water, then soak it in clear water for more than 2 hours, take it out and wash it with clear water before frying, so that colchicine is destroyed and it is safe to eat fresh day lily.

When consumers eat dry products, it is best to soak them in clear water or warm water for many times before eating to remove residual harmful substances, such as sulfur dioxide.

3. It is not suitable for cooking alone, but should be accompanied by other ingredients.