The most common way to eat amaranth is cold. Cold salad is very simple to do, the flavor is relatively rare, sour and smooth flavor.

Working Methods

Boil the amaranth in boiling water until it changes color. Put it into cold water, let it cool and set aside. Take a bowl, put MSG, vinegar, chili oil, salt and sesame oil and set aside. Take out the cooled amaranth, drain the water, put it into a container, add the seasoned sauce and mix well. Amaranth should not be blanched in the pan for too long or it will lose its flavor. Also, after blanching, you can rinse the mucus with water to wash off the slightly sticky feeling.

2. Cooking porridge

Some elderly friends like to use amaranth to cook porridge, not only light and refreshing, but also eat much more acidic than stir-fried coleslaw.

Working method

First, the amaranth is fried, remove impurities and wash the amaranth, put into boiling water for a moment, fish out, wash off the mucus, chopped; pot of hot oil, put onion popping incense, put in the amaranth, stir fry with refined salt to taste, out of the pot to be used. Then, amaranth and rice cooked into porridge.

3, amaranth wrapped dumplings

There are also friends who like to use amaranth wrapped dumplings, made out of dumplings unique flavor.

Working method

Wash the amaranth, put it into boiling water, blanch it, fish it out, squeeze out the water, and chop the amaranth so that you can use it to wrap the dumplings, and you can also add other ingredients.

4. Roasted meat

Marjoram stir-fry is also a family favorite. The acid of amaranth is very flavorful, and the stir-fry is mainly sour and acidic.

Working Methods

Amaranth is not directly fried. It is usually soaked in boiling water to wash the mucus and taste good. Then the practice is the general home cooking fried vegetables, as long as you like the flavor of amaranth, how to fry are delicious.

The efficacy of amaranth

1. Clearing heat and cooling the blood to cure dysentery. The main treatment:Heat dysentery, blood dysentery, damp-heat dysentery. Amaranth can eliminate abdominal lumps, quench thirst and treat leucorrhea in women.

2. Clearing heat and removing toxins to eliminate carbuncle. It can cure fire, poison and sores. Amaranth has the effect of detoxification, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, swelling. It has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on diabetes.

3, diuretic swelling, reduce blood pressure amaranth contains a large number of potassium salts, has a good diuretic swelling effect; potassium ions can also act directly on the blood vessel wall, dilate the blood vessel wall, prevent the thickening of arterial wall, so as to reduce blood pressure.

4, eliminate dust, prevent ulcers amaranth can eliminate dust, prevent phagocytosis degeneration and necrosis, prevent lymphatic inflammation and prevent fibrous changes, eliminate the formation of silicon nodules. Vitiligo also has some curative effect; amaranth also contains more carotene, can promote the healing of ulcers.

5. Antiseptic and anti-inflammatory. Amaranth has a strong inhibitory effect on Shigella, typhoid, E. coli, and can be used in the auxiliary treatment of various inflammatory diseases. It is known as "natural antibiotic".

6. Amaranth is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which has a good effect on reducing the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases.

7. Amaranth juice has a significant effect on smooth muscle, and the drink made from it has the effect of improving the eyes. Amaranth is sour and cold in nature, entering the heart meridian to go to the blood, it has the effect of cooling the blood to stop bleeding, detoxification, and treating carbuncle; it enters the large intestine, and is long in cooling the blood and treating dysentery. Commonly used in dysentery, sores.

8. Amaranth is also a rare natural high potassium food. Because the lack of potassium in the cell will lead to a decrease in cellular water content, which is positively correlated with cellular aging. Eating amaranth can keep blood potassium and intracellular potassium at normal levels.

What are the benefits of eating amaranth?

1, diuretic, swelling, lower blood pressure

Maranth contains a large amount of potassium salts, has a good diuretic swelling effect; potassium ions can also act directly on the blood vessel wall, dilate the blood vessel wall, to prevent thickening of the arterial wall, so as to reduce blood pressure.

2. Prevent heart disease

Amaranth contains potassium salts, flavonoids, cardiac glycosides and other active substances and rich in fatty acids, can inhibit the generation of human serum cholesterol and triglycerides, promote vasodilation, prevent platelet aggregation, coronary artery spasm and thrombosis, thus preventing the role of heart disease.

3. Lowering blood sugar

Amaranth contains a high concentration of norepinephrine and dihydroxyphenylethylamine (the precursor of norepinephrine), which can regulate the process of sugar metabolism in the body, promote the pancreas to secrete insulin, regulate the human body's sugar metabolism, and achieve the effect of lowering blood sugar.

4. Eliminate dust and toxins.

The amaranth can eliminate dust and toxins, prevent phagocytic degeneration and necrosis, prevent lymphatic inflammation and fibrous changes, and prevent the formation of silicone nodules. It is also effective in vitiligo.

5. Promote ulcer healing.

Amaranth contains more carotene, can promote ulcer healing, beneficial to gastric ulcer patients.

6. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory

Amaranth is known as a natural antibiotic, Shigella, typhoid fever, E. coli has a strong inhibitory effect, can be used for a variety of inflammation auxiliary treatment.

7. Anti-aging and anti-cancer

Amaranth also contains vitamin E and carotene, both of which are natural antioxidants that can effectively prevent free radicals from harming human tissues.

8. Treatment of high blood pressure

Kangfu soup is currently the best ideal choice for the treatment of hypertension, which is treated by calming the liver and submerging the yang, nourishing the kidneys and liver, tonifying the qi and blood, and relieving spasm and stabilizing pressure. It is also effective in preventing free radical damage to human tissues.