Chicken Soup

The Xiaohan solar term falls in the 39th season. There is a folk saying that "a chicken on the 9th day will bring good health in the coming year." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chicken is warm in nature, contains a lot of vitamins and high-quality protein, has low fat content, and is easily digested and absorbed by the human body. The nutritional value of chicken is higher than that of red meat. Medical research has confirmed that eating chicken can improve human immunity. Eating chicken in winter can not only provide the body with rich nutrients, but also effectively resist the cold without causing internal fire. It is a good nourishing food in winter. There are many ways to cook chicken, but stewing it and eating it in soup is the most nutritious way to eat it.

Glutinous rice

Cantonese people eat glutinous rice on Xiaohan. This is mainly because Xiaohan is in the middle of winter, so you need to eat some warm foods to resist the severe cold. Glutinous rice is warm in nature and has the effect of replenishing qi and nourishing the spleen and stomach. It has a good tonic effect on spleen and stomach deficiency. Eat glutinous rice in moderation in winter. It can protect you from the cold and keep warm.

The cooking methods of glutinous rice vary from place to place, ranging from salty to sweet. Cantonese people must make sausage and bacon when making glutinous rice. These two things are the soul of the whole pot of glutinous rice. Specific methods:

1. Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water for 2 hours. If you are in a hurry, soak it in hot water;

2. Wash the sausages and bacon and cut them into cubes, and soak the mushrooms. After it is cooked, cut it into cubes, dice the carrots, and cut the coriander into sections;

3. Wash the dried shrimps and soak them;

4. Fry the dried peanuts until cooked;

5. Wash an appropriate amount of rice and mix it with the soaked glutinous rice, add fried peanuts, sausages, bacon, mushrooms, carrots, and dried shrimps, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook in a rice cooker or electric pressure cooker.

6. After deflating, open the lid, add the coriander segments, stir all the ingredients evenly with a rice spoon, and a pot of fragrant glutinous rice is ready.

Vegetable rice

When it comes to Xiaohan, Nanjing people usually eat vegetable rice, but the content is different. In ancient times, poor people used oil, salt and vegetables to cook rice, while those with better conditions used sausages, bacon, diced salted duck and glutinous rice, and chopped some chopped ginger. The glutinous rice in vegetable rice warms the body and replenishes qi, strengthens the spleen and warms the stomach, while ginger has the effects of warming the body, dispelling cold, and promoting sweating and relieving the body. Eating the two together can enhance the body's ability to resist cold and evil.