Lotus root contains starch, protein, asparagine, vitamin C and oxidase, and its sugar content is also high. Eating fresh lotus root raw can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, quench thirst and stop vomiting. If fresh lotus roots are squeezed into juice, the effect will be even worse. Cooked lotus root is sweet and warm, which can strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite (just in line with recent gastrointestinal discomfort) and nourish blood and heart, so it mainly supplements the five internal organs, and has the effects of promoting digestion and quenching thirst.
Stewed trotters with lotus root: trotters, lotus root;
Ingredients: coriander, onion ginger, cooking wine, salt;
Nutritional value:
1, clearing heat and cooling blood: lotus root is cold, which has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, and can be used to treat heatstroke; Lotus root is sweet and light, which is especially beneficial to people with fever, thirst, epistaxis and hemoptysis.
2, laxative, spleen appetizer: Lotus root contains mucin and dietary fiber, which can be combined with cholate in the human body, cholesterol and triglycerides in food, so that it is discharged from feces, thereby reducing the absorption of lipids.
Lotus root gives off a unique fragrance, and also contains tannin, which has certain functions of invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, stimulating appetite and strengthening the body, and is beneficial to the recovery of people with poor appetite.
3. Nourishing blood and promoting granulation: Lotus root has high nutritional value, is rich in trace elements such as iron and calcium, and is rich in plant protein, vitamins and starch, which has obvious functions of invigorating qi and blood and enhancing human immunity.
Therefore, Chinese medicine calls it: "the Lord nourishes the spirit, benefiting qi and tonifying deficiency."
4, hemostasis and blood stasis: Lotus root contains a lot of tannic acid, which has the effect of contracting blood vessels and can be used to stop bleeding. Lotus root can also cool blood and disperse blood. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can stop bleeding without leaving blood stasis, which is a good diet for fever.
Exercise:
1, soak the chopped pig's trotters in water 1-2 hours, and it is best to change the water in the middle to soak out the impurities in the meat.
2. Cut the lotus root peeling hob into pieces and slice the ginger for later use.
3. Take out the soaked pig's trotters and drain them, then put them in a pot with cold water and blanch them for later use.
4. Pour some oil into the pot. After the oil is hot, put the trotters in the pot and stir-fry for a while until the surface of the trotters is slightly yellow.
5. Add ginger slices and stir-fry until fragrant, then add a spoonful of cooking wine and mix well.
6. Pour a large bowl of warm water into the pot. Don't pour the water over the pig's trotters, and then boil the water into soup.
7. Finally, pour the cooked soup and pig's trotters into the electric pressure cooker, put the lotus roots prepared before into the pot, and then add the right amount of salt and stir well. Cover the pot and choose to stew "tendon". When the pressure cooker is finished, it can be cooked.
8. Friends who like onions and parsley can also sprinkle chopped green onion and parsley to taste when they are out of the pot ~