1, mashed garlic eggplant
Ingredients: 300g of eggplant, 3 cloves of garlic, balsamic vinegar, sugar, sesame oil, chicken essence and salt.
Practice: Wash eggplant (without peeling) and cut it into strips about 1.5cm thick. Put it on a plate and steam it in a steamer. Take out, cooling and refrigerate; Peel and wash garlic and press it into garlic paste; Add all the "seasonings" to make the sauce; Take out the frozen eggplant and pour in the sauce and mix well.
Efficacy: Eggplant is rich in nutrition, and garlic is spicy and bactericidal. The combination of the two is very helpful to health. Steamed eggplant tastes soft and tender, and with various seasonings, it tastes delicious and refreshing, which is very suitable for summer consumption.
2. cold celery
Ingredients: a handful of celery, peanut oil, sesame oil and a little salt.
Practice: Pick out the leaves of celery and wash them. Put water in the pot, boil it, add peanut oil, and then add celery. It won't take long to cook for three or four minutes. Then take the celery out and put it in cold water for supercooling, peel it (boiled celery is easy to peel), cut it into sections, put it on a plate, sprinkle a little salt and mix well, and pour in a little sesame oil and mix well.
Efficacy: Cold celery is crisp and refreshing, especially appetizing, especially suitable for people with bad appetite in summer.
3. Old cucumber lean broth
Ingredients: old cucumber 1500g, lean meat 400g, red beans 100g, 4 candied dates, dried tangerine peel 1 tablet.
Practice: Wash the old cucumber, cut the melon and cut it into large pieces. Wash the original lean meat; Red beans should also be washed. Soak the dried tangerine peel and wash it. Boil a proper amount of water, add old cucumber, lean meat, red beans, candied dates and dried tangerine peel, and cook for 2 hours until the soup is cooked and seasoned.
Efficacy: This soup is suitable for hot weather, which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, quench thirst and induce diuresis.
4. Sweet and sour lotus root slices
Ingredients: 500g lotus root, balsamic vinegar, sugar and sesame oil.
Practice: wash the lotus root, scrape and peel it, and then cut it into thin slices. After slicing, put the lotus root slices into clear water and soak them in a few drops of white vinegar for a while; Put half a pot of water in the pot, boil it until it boils, then add lotus root slices and blanch it; Take out lotus root slices, soak them in cold water for 1 min, take them out and drain them; Then put the lotus root slices into a large bowl, add 2 tablespoons of sugar and 2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar, stir well and pour in a small amount of sesame oil.
Efficacy: The sweet and sour taste of sweet and sour lotus root slices is very appetizing in summer, especially suitable for people with loss of appetite.
5, bitter gourd fried pork
Ingredients: bitter gourd, pork 500g each, salt and soy sauce.
Practice: Wash bitter gourd and pork, and cut into pieces for later use; Put two spoonfuls of salt in bitter gourd to remove astringency, and wash the salt in bitter gourd with clear water after 3 minutes; Pour a little oil into the pot, first pour pork and stir fry until cooked, then add bitter gourd and stir fry together; When the bitter gourd is ripe, add the right amount of salt and soy sauce to taste.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and removing fire.