Pine kernel corn is a very representative traditional dish in Northeast China. Pine kernel corn has a sweet smell, bright color and rich nutrition, and a festive name is "Happiness from now on", so this dish often appears on the menu of festive wedding banquets. However, besides this beautiful and moral name, it has many therapeutic functions. If you eat regularly, the more children eat, the smarter they are, the healthier the elderly eat, and the more beautiful women eat, the stronger the men eat. Let's share how to make this dish and cook it for our family!

The common practice of pine kernel corn—

Ingredients: 240 grams of sweet corn, 60 grams of pine nuts, 60 grams of carrots and 60 grams of peas.

60g of seasoning edible oil, 3g of salt, 2g of sugar and 3g of starch.

step

1. Wash corn, peel carrots, dice them, peel pine nuts and wash peas;

Don't put oil in the pot. Stir-fry raw pine nuts with low fire until they change color. If it is ripe pine nuts, please ignore this step. At the same time, blanch the corn kernels, peas and carrots with boiling water, take them out and drain them with cold water.

3. When the oil in the pot is 70% hot, pour in corn peas and corn kernels and stir fry 1 min. After the water comes out, add pine nuts, sugar and salt and stir fry;

4. According to your own taste, add a proper amount of water starch until it is thick, and you can enjoy it after taking it out of the pot;

5. The nutrients contained in corn can reduce cholesterol, prevent cell aging and slow down the deterioration of brain function.

skill

Corn cob can be sweet corn cob, waxy corn cob or common corn cob, each with different flavors.

Quick-frozen sweet corn kernels can also be naturally thawed at room temperature and boiled in boiling water for 8 minutes to 80% maturity, and other steps remain unchanged. The flavor is slightly affected, but it will be faster;

Beans can also be replaced by diced cucumber;

Blanched vegetables and put them in cold water to keep their fresh color;

Stir-fried pine nuts must be simmered, just stir-fry a little, otherwise it will be easy to paste;

Pine nuts must be added when they are out of the pot to keep the taste crisp;

The step of adding water and starch thickening can be omitted according to your own taste.

Nutritional value of corn

The high content of corn cellulose can stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, accelerate fecal excretion, and prevent constipation, enteritis, and intestinal cancer.

Vitamin E contained in corn has the functions of promoting cell division, delaying aging, lowering serum cholesterol, preventing skin lesions, relieving arteriosclerosis and brain function decline.

Lutein and zeaxanthin contained in corn can resist eye aging. In addition, eating more corn can also inhibit the side effects of anticancer drugs on human body, stimulate brain cells and enhance people's brain power and memory.

Corn is rich in magnesium and selenium, which inhibits the growth of tumors. In particular, corn also contains more glutamic acid, which has the function of strengthening the brain. It can help and promote the breathing of brain cells, remove waste in the body and help eliminate ammonia in brain tissue during physiological activities, so it can strengthen the brain if eaten regularly.

Corn can't be eaten with snails, which is easy to be poisoned. Eating with oysters will hinder the absorption of zinc.

Nutritional value of pine nuts

Pine nuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid, which can reduce blood lipid and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

Pine nuts contain a lot of minerals, such as calcium, iron and potassium. It can provide rich nutrition for body tissues, strengthen bones and muscles, and eliminate fatigue, which is of great benefit to the health care of the elderly;

Vitamin E in pine nuts is as high as 30%, which has a good effect of softening blood vessels and delaying aging. It is an ideal health food for middle-aged and elderly people, and also an ideal food for moisturizing and beautifying women.