Mint is a lip-shaped plant, which is used as a sweating and antipyretic agent in traditional Chinese medicine. Eating some mint porridge for middle-aged and elderly people can clear the heart, dispel wind and dissipate heat, stimulate appetite and help digestion. In summer, make yourself a "cold soup" with mint at home, which can quench your thirst and relieve the heat. Try it.
Mint soup:
Clean mint leaves, chop them up, blanch them with boiling water, and add a little salt and sesame oil, which has the effects of refreshing, detoxifying and reducing fire.
Mint herbal tea:
Clean fresh mint, brew in boiling water, add appropriate amount of white sugar, naturally cool, and take 3-5 cups a day. Naturally cool and cool to relieve summer heat, the whole body is comfortable and the energy is doubled.
Mint porridge:
Mint15g decoction, add 60g japonica rice to cook porridge, add appropriate amount of rock sugar when the porridge is ready, and then boil it, which can be served warm for breakfast and dinner.
Peppermint ice:
Boil 4 bowls of clear water until it boils, add mint and boil for 5 minutes. Put mint water into an ice cube and make it into ice particles. When you have a sore throat or dry mouth, take the ice particles and chew them in your mouth. The temperature is high in summer, and people often go in and out of air-conditioned places, so it is easy to catch a cold. To prevent and treat colds, but also to relieve sore throat and promote fluid production, it is best to eat mint ice.
Mint tea:
Making tea with mint, like ordinary tea, can make use of menthol and menthone in mint to dispel wind and clear heat, and the tea has a cool feeling, which is a good medicine for clearing heat and diuresis.
Mint wine:
Prepare 0/0g of peppermint oil/kloc-,50ml of rice wine and 0.05l of yellow wine. Mix peppermint oil with rice wine and yellow wine and drink it on an empty stomach in the morning and evening. It has the effects of clearing heat, detoxicating, invigorating stomach and clearing throat.
Gold, silver and mint tea:
Brew mint and honeysuckle with boiling water, cover and suffocate for 5 minutes, and add honey.
Application: prickly heat
Reminder: Mint is cool and should not be taken for a long time.
Anti-fatigue drink: fresh combination of cucumber and soybean
Time required: 5 minutes
Ingredients (for four people): one cucumber, 1/2 liters of soybean milk, and three mint.
Preparation method:
1, peel the cucumber. Put it into a chopper and crush it.
2. Add soybean milk and choose good mint leaves. Stir.
3. Even if you eat it.
Diet therapy
Mint has both medical and edible functions. The main edible parts are stems and leaves, and it can also be used for juicing. In eating, mint can be used as a flavoring agent, a spice, wine and tea.
Mint porridge
30g of fresh mint or 0/5g of dried mint 1 liter of clear water1liter, decocted in medium fire to about 0.5l, cooled, taken out and left juice. Cook porridge with150g of stem rice. When the porridge is ready, add mint soup and a little rock sugar and boil.
Efficacy: fresh and refreshing, dispelling wind and dissipating heat, stimulating appetite and helping digestion.
Mint tofu
2 pieces of tofu, 50 grams of fresh mint and 3 strips of fresh onion, add 2 bowls of water and fry until the water is halved, that is, eat while it is hot.
Efficacy: It can treat colds, stuffy nose, sneezing and runny nose.
Mint shredded chicken
Chicken breast150g, cut into filaments, add egg white, starch and salt and mix well for later use. Mint stem150g, washed and cut into the same sections. Heat the oil in the pot to 50% heat, and pour the mixed shredded chicken into the oil. In another pan, add base oil, add minced onion and ginger, add cooking wine, mint stalks, shredded chicken, salt and monosodium glutamate, and sprinkle with pepper oil.
Efficacy: Eliminating fire and relieving summer heat.
Mint cake
Take 500 grams of glutinous rice and mung beans, 0/5 grams of mint/kloc-,25 grams of sugar, and a little osmanthus. Cook mung beans until they are cooked thoroughly, then add sugar, osmanthus fragrans and chopped mint leaves to make stuffing for later use. Stew the glutinous rice, put it in a box to cool, then use glutinous rice to wrap the bean paste and crush it with a mallet.
Efficacy: cool, dispel wind and dissipate heat, clear throat and benefit throat.
Fresh mint crucian carp soup
Live crucian carp 1 strip, cut clean, cook with water, add scallion 1 root, ginger 1 slice, and 20g fresh mint. After boiling, add seasoning, oil and salt, and eat soup and meat together. Take/kloc-0 once a day for 3 ~ 5 days.
Efficacy: It can cure children's chronic cough.
Mint soup
Clean mint leaves, chop them up, scald them with boiling water, and add a little salt and sesame oil.
Efficacy: detoxification and fire.
Beauty value
I don't know, it turns out that mint also has the effect of beauty. Peppermint tea can be used to wash your hair, which can eliminate the scalp, make your hair refreshing, and make your hair more natural and fragrant after shampooing, which will refresh your spirit. External application of mint juice can make your skin smoother. In addition, brushing your teeth with dried mint leaves for a long time can make your teeth white and your breath fresh.
Edible taboo
I would like to remind you that although mint has its value, postpartum women should avoid eating mint if they breastfeed their babies, because this will cause "milk withdrawal". In addition, because mint contains volatile oil, if it is eaten, the curative effect will be reduced if it is cooked for too long.
Bohe hotpot
Ingredients/seasoning] mint grass 1 bag (about 1 cup), yuanxiao (peanuts, sesame seeds and red beans are optional) 1 box, 4 fresh eggs, pineapple cans 1 can and sugar 1 cup.
[Production process]
(1) Prepare two pots and heat them with half a pot of water. 1 pot is used to cook mint grass. The mint grass needs to be wrapped in a tea filter bag and boiled in the pot for about 40 minutes. Take out the mint bag and add sugar until it melts, and then reduce the heat.
(2) Boil water in another pot of 1 and put it in a box of Yuanxiao 1. Beat in egg packets and cook it over medium heat. After the Yuanxiao floats, take it out with a soup ladle and put it in a mint sweet soup. Then put it in slices of pineapple (divide it into 4 parts) and serve.
This hot pot can be eaten at the afternoon tea snack time, or as a dessert with cookies or buns.
Mint leaf rosin
The unique vanilla leaves have elegant fragrance and refreshing feeling, which is especially suitable for the warm afternoon taste in winter.
Ingredients: 90ml of rum, 2 tbsps of lemon juice, 2 tbsps of gum molasses, appropriate amount of mint leaves, 6-8 pieces of rosin leaves and 300ml of soda water.
Fill the glass with water, add appropriate amount of rum, lemon juice, soda water and gum molasses, then add mint leaves and rosin leaves, and press the fragrant leaves with a stirring spoon to make the taste stronger.
Peppermint apple vinegar beauty soda
It tastes soft and delicious, and a sip is refreshing.
Ingredients (4 persons): 2/3 cups of apple vinegar, mint10 ~15 tablets, 2 sticks of rosemary, 500ml of plain soda, ice cubes and proper amount of honey.
Practice:
1, pour apple vinegar, mint and rosemary into the pot, boil for 30 seconds, turn off the flame, let it cool and filter the residue stains.
2. Fill the cup with1/4, add ice cubes and soda, add honey according to your own preference, and finally decorate with mint.
Mint artichoke soup
Soup/soup other western-style dishes for 4 people.
Ingredients: 500g artichoke, vegetable stock 1 liter (4 cups), lemon juice 1 spoon, salt and white pepper seasoning, low-fat sour cream, scattered 1 spoon, fresh mint/chopped12 cups.
Practice:
1. Put the artichokes in the boiling water in the pot (the water surface should be covered with artichokes)
2. Add 1 tbsp lemon juice and cook for 20-30 minutes until soft.
3. Pick up artichokes, cool them, peel them and cut them into thin slices.
4. Put it into a food conditioner and break it with the vegetable stock.
5. Heat on medium heat before serving, and heat and taste with pepper and salt.
6. Pour into a bowl, drizzle with sour cream and decorate with mint leaves.
Mint tea fragrant bone
Ingredients: ribs ingredients: mint, coriander, onion, pepper and ginger seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate and sugar.
Production process:
Step 1: Boil a proper amount of mint to make mint water. Shred shallots and ginger, and cut peppers and coriander into sections for later use.
Step 2: Cut the selected pork ribs into small pieces, and then soak them in the mixed water of mint water and glutinous rice tea for 20 minutes.
Step 3: Take out the soaked ribs, add a little homemade pepper water and a proper amount of soy sauce on them, then sprinkle with salt, sugar and monosodium glutamate, and marinate for 15 minutes.
Step 4: put the base oil in the pot, and the amount should not be too small. Deep-fry the marinated spareribs in the pan, and when the bones are almost deboned, add the chopped ingredients such as onion, pepper, coriander and ginger. When the ingredients are fried dry, the spareribs will be fried and ready to go out.
Features: This dish is a new way created by the chef after careful study of Yunnan cuisine "raw fried ribs", which belongs to private cuisine series.
Taste of dishes: ribs are fragrant but not greasy, with a faint tea smell.
Suitable for people: suitable for all ages, especially for fashionable men and women.
Peppermint, crab meat and onion rolls
Ingredients: 4 green onions, crab meat150g (canned, vacuum or frozen), bean sprouts125g, 200g carrots, 6 mint, and appropriate amount of salt and pepper.
Production method:
1, wash the green onion, cut it longitudinally along one side, and keep the onion core. Boil onion leaves in boiling water with salt for 10 minute, drain and cool for later use.
2. Soak the bean sprouts in boiling water with salt for 2 minutes, drain them quickly, let them pass through cold water, and then carefully drain them again.
3. Slice the onion core, cook it in boiling water with salt for 5 minutes, drain and cool for later use.
4. Peel and shred carrots, chop mint, put it in a large bowl with bean sprouts, onion slices and crab meat, add salt and stir.
5. Lay the onion leaves flat and cut them into a rectangle of10×15cm. Put a spoonful of prepared stuffing on each onion leaf and roll it up.
6. Pour light tomato juice or any sauce you like when serving.