"Summer, heat. " Steaming up and cooking down", hot steam, a thunder accompanied by a warm wind, a sharp wind and rain. Lotus pond pavilion lotus lotus fragrance intoxicating, the trees on the robin began to sound the summer, the small yard vegetable garden abundance of bees and butterflies flying, step garden green moss hidden crickets ...... summer under the fire also has a multitude of good.
Festivals have always been associated with food, and ingredients are another way of perceiving the change of seasons, reminding people of the seasons and time. "No food from time to time, through the reasonable combination of seasonal and food, simple, healthy, natural, is not lost as a most natural way of health. So, how to prepare food to meet the arrival of this "summer"? After the summer, the diet pay attention to " 5 more to eat, 2 less to eat ", appropriate to eat more light food, less greasy, barbecue meat; at the same time, eat more prunes, plums, and other acidic, appetite-enhancing fruits and seasonal food summer season , here, we are! Together to see:
The weather is hot, appetite decline, if there is a bowl of entry smooth, Q popping cold skin or cold powder to the esophagus and stomach are cool again, so the summer is complete, cozy.
Cold skin and cold noodles, eaten with garlic sauce, balsamic vinegar, spicy oil, soy sauce, cilantro and other seasonings, from the beginning of this bowl: cold skin and cold noodles cool, decided that it and the hot summer have chopped the fate. Below, we recommend the production of a simple and convenient "millet cold skin":
millet cold skin practice:
Raw materials: 200 grams of millet, 50 grams of pea starch, 300 grams of water, 1 cucumber, 1 carrot, sesame seed paste, minced garlic, minced green onion, coriander, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, sesame oil, chili oil, salt, sugar, cooking oil in moderation.
Preparation method:
2. Pour the soaked millet and water into the cooking machine, beat it into millet pulp, and filter it into a large bowl for spare.
3. Pour 50 grams of pea starch into a large bowl and mix well with a whisk until the rice syrup and starch are completely blended and there are no lumps or bumps.
4. Put a saucepan on the fire, pour in the water and bring to a boil. Prepare a smooth tray, gently brush a thin layer of oil on the tray with a small brush, then ladle in 1 ? tablespoons of the batter and shake the tray to spread the batter evenly. When the water in the pot boils, place the tray on top of the water, cover the pot and steam over low heat for 2-3 minutes.
5. and so the batter steamed to bubbling bulging, remove the tray, into a prepared pot of cool water on the surface, let the cold skin cool, and then use a brush in the cold skin and then gently brush a thin layer of oil, cooled after the cool skin will be uncovered and removed, at this time, a millet cold skin is ready. All the batter will be made into a cold skin.
6. Prepare the side dishes and seasonings: wash the cucumber and carrots cut into thin julienne strips; bowl pour 2 spoons of sesame sauce, add 2 spoons of soy sauce, 2 spoons of balsamic vinegar, half a spoon of sugar, mix well, and then according to personal preference to add minced garlic, minced green onions, minced cilantro, chili oil.
7. The cold skin cut into wide or narrow strips, and then with the cucumber, carrot shredded together into the plate set up, pouring good sauce, with chopsticks to stir evenly can be eaten ~
Yangmei is known as " fruit agate ", not only because of the It is red like agate, but also because it is rich in fiber, mineral elements, vitamins, proteins, fats, pectin and 8 kinds of amino acids beneficial to the human body, eaten to help the thirst, digestion, summer, so Yangmei is a small summer indispensable fruit.
As fresh prunes taste a little sour, and not easy to save, if it is a simple boil with rock sugar, made of sweet and sour prune sugar water, can eat the prune flesh juicy, but also can drink cool summer prune sugar water juice, in the summer afternoon, come on a small bowl, it is how comfortable ~
prune sugar water of the Practice:
Ingredients: 2 pounds of prunes, 250 grams of rock sugar, dry cinnamon 1 small spoon, 3 small spoons of salt, the right amount of water
Production method:
1: first fresh prunes in the water to wash off the surface of the dust, and then into the 3 small spoons of salt, add the prunes did not exceed the water, soak for 10 minutes, to remove the prunes fruit of the small worms, and then soaked prunes then wash the water. Wash it with clean water.
2: Sit on the fire pot, put the prunes, rock sugar 250 grams, and then add the right amount of water, heating over low heat, and with a spoon constantly gently stirring until the rock sugar cooking.
3: about 15 minutes or so, the color of the water in the pot becomes red, add 1 small spoon of dry cinnamon, cook for another 1 minute and turn off the fire.
4: After a little cooling, put the prunes and sugar water into a clean bottle without water or oil, seal the lid while it is still hot, let it come to room temperature and then put it into the refrigerator to chill, and take it with you as you eat.
Folklore " small summer eating lotus root ", lotus root contains a large number of carbohydrates, a variety of vitamins, dietary fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium and many other ingredients, not only nutritional comprehensiveness, but also help to clear the heat, very suitable for consumption in the hot summer. In addition to lotus root, fresh lotus seeds, lotus root ribbons, rhododendrons and other delicacies will also be on the market at this time of the year; even the freshly picked lotus flowers and leaves can be made into delicacies. Below, we recommend using the lotus root to make "stir-fried lotus root slices":
Stir-fried lotus root slices practice:
Ingredients: lotus root 1, ginger, green onion, millet pepper rings, cooked white sesame seeds, salt, white vinegar, cooking oil, appropriate amount of
Preparation method:
1: Peel off the skin of the lotus root, cut it into thin slices, put it into a large bowl, add water, a few drops of white vinegar and soak it for 5 minutes to avoid discoloration.
2: sit on the fire pot, pan hot pour oil, oil hot under the ginger, stir fry flavor, pour into the water control dry lotus root slices, stir fry on high heat.
3: Stir-fry until the lotus root slices are somewhat transparent, under the green onion, millet pepper rings and salt seasoning, stir-fry evenly after you can turn off the fire, and then sprinkle some cooked white sesame seeds on the plate.
Amaranth has " longevity dish " reputation, as the saying goes: " June amaranth, when the eggs; July amaranth, gold ", where the six, July are referring to the lunar calendar. Small summer season, is the lunar calendar in June, that is, the field of wild amaranth is fresh and tender, amaranth's nutritional value is very high, rich in iron, calcium and other minerals, as well as carotene and vitamin C. The amaranth leaves contain a variety of nutrients, such as calcium and other minerals. The calcium contained in amaranth leaves is easily absorbed by the human body and is a good calcium supplement, especially suitable for children to eat more of this dish. The Materia Medica Compendium has a record: Nasturtiums are grown in the south, and are also used in small fry in the garden. ("Nasturtium (han) vegetable" is the name of the amaranth in Hubei, Anhui and other places, said to be in accordance with the dialect pronunciation).
Amaranth has green and red leaves:
Below, we recommend using red amaranth to make a soup "amaranth eggs soup":
Amaranth eggs soup practice:
Ingredients: 1 red amaranth, 2 eggs, garlic, green onion, salt, cooking oil. Onion, salt, cooking oil moderate
production method:
1: the amaranth choose clean, remove the root, wash in water and water control, cut into sections, rhizomes and leaves separate open plate. Peeled eggs shelled and cut them into small pieces with cotton thread.
2: sit on the fire pot, pan hot pour oil, oil hot, down into the skin egg pieces, let the skin egg pieces in the hot oil under the action of the outer skin wrinkled.
3: When you smell the flavor of the eggs, put in the minced garlic, minced onion, stir fry evenly and pour into the right amount of boiling water, high heat boil.
4: and so the soup burned to milky white leaves, add an appropriate amount of salt to taste, down into the rhizome part of the amaranth, a little boiled for a dozen seconds, and then into the amaranth leaf part.
5: When the amaranth becomes soft and cooked, the soup becomes bright red, you can turn off the fire out of the pot to fill the bowl.
As the saying goes: " Drink the ambrosia sheep soup, no need to prescribe medicine", "ambrosia" and "sheep" combination, ambrosia eat Mutton, sounds like a feeling of fuel on the fire; summer sweating, pores wide open, the body is very vulnerable to cold and cold invasion, and eat mutton, drink mutton soup, help the body of the wet and cold out, which is often referred to as the "poison to fight poison".
In the Huaihai region, such as Xuzhou, every year from the beginning of the beginning to the end of the end of the ambush, held nearly a month of " ambrosia festival ", ambrosia festival is also listed as a local intangible cultural heritage of Jiangsu Province. On the first day of the festival, people will buy lamb from the market and cook it at home, and major hotels, restaurants, and lamb restaurants will also launch a series of "lamb dishes" for people to enjoy. Influenced by the festival, there are many food lovers who prefer to drink lamb soup, eat lamb kebabs, and shabu-shabu hotpot on the day of the festival, enjoying the healing feeling brought by the food while sweating profusely.
Below, the recommended lamb with fresh corn, carrots to stew together, both delicious and nutritionally balanced:
carrot corn stew lamb practice:
Ingredients: 300 grams of mutton chops, carrots, 1 corn, green onions, ginger, pepper, salt to appropriate amount of
Preparation:
Method:
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1: Wash the lamb chops in water and then soak for half an hour to soak up the blood; peel and wash the carrots and corn and chop them into pieces.
2: sit on the fire pot, pour the right amount of water, water bubbling down into the lamb chops, the right amount of ginger, blanching and then wash with warm water to spare.
3: sit on the fire casserole, down into the lamb chops, pour in water, large fire boil, turn the fire slowly stewed half an hour, down into the carrots and corn pieces, continue to stew for another forty minutes.
4: Finally add salt and pepper to taste, you can turn off the fire out of the pot.
In addition to the above "5 more to eat", the summer season should also pay attention to "2 less to eat":
The weather is getting hot, the overnight leftovers, even if placed in the refrigerator, it will be easy to breed germs, nitrites, which will lead to the food Discoloration, deterioration and taste, and there will be carcinogens, eat the health of the stomach and intestines is very unfavorable. Therefore, hot days frying cooking, must do less, overnight leftovers once found to have problems, do not be afraid of wasting food, " would rather waste a bucket, not more than one mouthful ", be sure not to eat a bad stomach. Especially the elderly, thrifty, will think that the refrigerator is the "safe", often leftovers eat a few meals are not willing to throw away. Originally, the elderly gastrointestinal digestion is not very good, often this goes on, only more and more on the health of the body is unfavorable.
In summer, some friends love clean body sweat like to go to a cold shower to cool down; the results of low-temperature stimulation of the body, sweat pore contraction, sweat and the body of the heat will be discharged instead of out, and may cause cold and heat stroke, played a counterproductive. Therefore, the summer to less cold shower, appropriate more sweat on the body's health is also beneficial.
Meet the food, eat in the twenty-fourth season. The most important thing to remember is that you should be able to enjoy every single day of your life with a good and rich life.
Food is an indispensable pursuit of life and healing agent, busy and tired, do not forget to eat instantly, timely supplementation of nutrients, so that the body is better, safe and healthy over the summer