Tomorrow, don't forget to eat these five traditional foods. Eat healthily and spend 40 days safely. Tomorrow, it will begin to enter the dog days. The dog days of 202 1 began in July 1 1, and it was divided into two, three days, and lasted until August19,2021. There are 40 dog days. As the saying goes, "cold is in March 9th, heat is in dog days". At this time, the weather is very hot and the temperature is getting higher and higher. At the hottest time, it is sultry and humid in the dog days every year. Therefore, when you enter the dog days, you should eat more food for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, vegetables, fruits and seasonal dishes, and protein should also have enough intake, so you should eat health sticks in season. Remember to eat five traditional foods tomorrow, and eat healthily in the current season, which lasts for 40 days in dog days.

First, bitter gourd

Bitter gourd is one of the seasonal melons and vegetables in summer. Taste slightly bitter and sweet, rich in vitamins and dietary fiber. Eating in summer can cool off the heat. Suffering in summer is good for your health. Can be used for soup, stir-fry and cold salad. You can cook some bitter gourd for your family tomorrow.

Recommended recipe: cold bitter gourd

Prepare ingredients: a bitter gourd, appropriate amount of oil and salt, appropriate amount of garlic, appropriate amount of millet spicy, a little soy sauce, and a little chicken essence.

1, remove the melon sac from bitter gourd, wash and cut into pieces, put it in a pot to boil, add a spoonful of salt and a proper amount of oil, put it in bitter gourd to cook for about 1 minute, and immediately put it in ice water.

2. Add garlic and pepper to the bowl and pour in hot oil. Add a spoonful of salt and soy sauce chicken essence and stir well.

3. Drain bitter gourd and put it on a plate. Pour in the cold sauce and mix well.

Second, mung beans

Mung beans are also seasonal beans in summer. Although it can be eaten all year round, summer is the best season to eat mung beans. Many people cook mung bean soup in summer. On a hot day, the whole person is refreshed and full of energy. You can eat more in dog days and cook mung bean syrup to quench your thirst and relieve summer heat.

Recommended recipe: mung bean sago syrup

Preparation materials: appropriate amount of mung beans, appropriate amount of sago and half a piece of sugar.

1. Wash mung beans, put them in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat and turn to low heat for 30 minutes.

2. Boil the water in the pot, add sago to boil 15 minutes, turn off the fire and cover the pot for 20 minutes, then take it out and put it into cold boiled water.

3. Add sugar and cook until it melts, then add sago and mix well.

Third, ginger.

Ginger is a seasoning ingredient. Jiang Ye in summer can be fried directly. Old students can use it to cook ginger tea or ginger jujube paste, which can drive away cold and warm the stomach, which is beneficial to health, especially for women with cold body. As the saying goes, "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer" is also reasonable. There are many air conditioners in summer, and some people like to eat cold food, cold drinks, ice cream and so on. Although the body surface is very hot in summer, the body cold is quite cold.

Recommended recipes: ginger, red dates and brown sugar water.

Preparation materials: a piece of ginger, 8 red dates and a piece of brown sugar.

1, washed ginger and shredded, washed red dates and pitted.

2. Add a proper amount of water to the pot, add ginger and red dates, and bring to a boil. Turn to low heat and cook 10 minute. Add brown sugar and cook until the sugar melts.

Fourth, lotus seeds

Lotus seeds are also one of the seasonal foods in summer. Lotus seeds are sweet, cool and refreshing, easy to get hot and dry in summer, with great mental stress, and often can't sleep well at night. Eating lotus seed soup at this time can strengthen the heart and soothe the nerves, and help you sleep well. After sleeping, you can cook sugar water and soup with lotus seeds for your lover to drink, which is nutritious, healthy, cool and nourishing.

Recommended recipe: tremella and lotus seed syrup

Preparation materials: fresh lotus seeds 150g, half a fresh tremella.

1. Pick small tremella and soak it in clear water 10 minute. Wash it for later use. Remove the heart of lotus seeds and wash them.

2. Add a proper amount of water to the pot and bring to a boil. Add lotus seeds and cook for 20 minutes. Add tremella to boil, then add rock sugar to cook. Because they are all fresh, they don't need to be cooked for a long time.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) jiaozi

Eating jiaozi in dog days is the eating habit of northerners. As the saying goes, "Eat jiaozi on your head, noodles on your feet, pancakes and eggs on your feet". People think that these coarse grains can help you sweat in dog days, which is very good for your health. And jiaozi is full of meat and vegetables, which are nutritious, healthy and delicious.

Recommended recipes: celery, pork and jiaozi.

Preparation materials: pork, celery, oil and salt, soy sauce, oyster sauce and pepper.

1. Chop pork, wash celery and chop it for later use.

2. Mix pork and celery, add soy sauce, oyster sauce, pepper and a little sesame oil and mix well for later use.

3. Buy ready-made dumpling wrappers, wrap them in boiling water and cook them thoroughly.

Lily: These are five traditional seasonal foods in dog days, and pies will fall from the sky tomorrow. In the dog days of 40 days, you might as well cook more traditional nutritious food for your family to relieve summer heat, conform to the solar terms and be healthy for 40 days. What are your local eating habits and must-eat foods?