The scorching summer is the season with the highest yang, and it is full of vitality because of the heat. At this time, the metabolism is the most vigorous period, and the yang is outward, including the yin, and the blood circulation is correspondingly vigorous and active on the body surface. Therefore, health care has become an important link in summer. In summer, keeping in good health focuses on mental adjustment, maintaining a happy and stable mood, and avoiding great sorrow and joy, so as to avoid adding heat to the fire. So, what food can you eat in summer to achieve the purpose of health preservation? The following eight simple and easy-to-do, health-care foods should be the first choice.

1, summer heat five bean soup

Ingredients: 30g of adzuki bean, 30g of mung bean, 30g of fried lentil and 30g of black bean, 6g of licorice.

Practice: Wash beans and licorice, soak them for a few hours, put them in a clay pot, add 2000 ml of water (about 8 bowls of water), first boil them with strong fire, then simmer them for 2 hours, either lightly or with sugar.

Reminder: It is suitable for people with phlegm-dampness and damp-heat. People with yang deficiency and qi deficiency can remove mung beans.

2. Stewed rock sugar with lotus seeds and lilies

Ingredients: lotus seed L5g, fresh lily 30g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Practice: remove the heart of lotus seeds, put them in a stew pot with lily and rock sugar, add some water and stew for 2 hours before eating.

Reminder: It is especially suitable for people with yin deficiency and qi deficiency.

3. Fish and tomato soup

Ingredients: 300g of bighead carp, 3 tomatoes, 3 small pieces of garlic, 3 pieces of ginger, a little salt and sesame oil.

Practice: Steamed bighead carp meat, removed fish bones and made into fish paste; Wash tomatoes and slice them; Put a little oil in a hot pot, stir-fry tomatoes to get juice, add water and ginger, bring to a boil, add minced fish, garlic slices and appropriate amount of salt and sesame oil until cooked. Benefiting stomach, promoting fluid production, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi.

4. Peanut lily bean paste

Ingredients: red beans 1 00g, dried lily 1 bar, peanuts 1 bar, honey1spoon.

Practice: Wash red beans and lilies, soak them for 2 ~ 3 hours in advance, then pour them into the pot with peanuts, add appropriate amount of water, cook for one and a half hours, naturally cool, open the lid, put them into a small bowl, and add honey to serve. It can increase the supply of B vitamins and potassium, and at the same time supplement the plant protein.

5, glutinous rice yam soup

Raw materials: 300g of yam, 0/00g of coix seed/kloc-,20g of wolfberry fruit, 40g of oats and appropriate amount of yellow rock sugar.

Practice: Soak Coix seed in water for 2 hours in advance; Wash the medlar; Peel yam, wash and cut into diamond-shaped pieces; Put Coicis Semen in a pot, add appropriate amount of water to boil, put it in yam and cook for one hour; Add yellow rock sugar and medlar, roll for 10 minute, and finally add oatmeal to turn off the heat. Strengthening spleen and eliminating dampness, reducing blood fat and whitening skin.

6, bitter gourd scrambled eggs

Ingredients: two small bitter gourd, if it is a big one, four eggs and half onion.

Practice: 1, cut the bitter gourd in half, remove the seeds, then cut it into thin strips vertically, and finally cut the thin strips into small dices, and cut the onion into the last; 2. Beat the eggs into a bowl and mix well, then put the prepared diced bitter gourd and chopped green onion into the bowl and mix well; 3, hot pot, add the right amount of oil. Pour the eggs and bitter gourd into the pot, stir well and season with salt.

7. Lettuce salad

Ingredients: 350 grams of fresh lettuce, onion, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, salt and sugar.

Practice: Wash lettuce, peel it, cut it into long strips and small pieces, put it in a plate, add refined salt and stir, marinate it 1 hour, decant it, add monosodium glutamate and white sugar and mix well.

Efficacy: benefit the five internal organs and dredge the meridians.

8, mixed eggplant

Ingredients: 500g tender eggplant, 0/5g coriander/kloc-,garlic, rice vinegar, sugar, sesame oil, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, refined salt and pepper.

Practice: Wash and peel the eggplant, cut it into small pieces, put it in a bowl, sprinkle with a little salt, then throw it in cold water, soak the eggplant brown, take it out and steam it in a steamer, take it out and let it cool; Mashed garlic; Heat a wok over a fire, add sesame oil, fry the pepper until fragrant, pour the oil into a small bowl, add soy sauce, sugar, rice vinegar, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and minced garlic, make juice, and pour it on eggplant slices; Wash coriander, cut into sections and sprinkle on eggplant slices. Serve.

Efficacy: clearing away heat, dredging orifices, relieving swelling and diuresis, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach.