1. What are the benefits of eating mutton at the beginning of winter?

1.1. Kidney nourishing

Kidney nourishing According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", mutton can nourish middle qi and nourish kidney qi. effect. It has also always been one of the important ingredients for folk winter supplements.

1.2. Enhance immunity

The nutritional value of mutton is relatively high, and it is rich in vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, iron, zinc, and selenium. Eating some mutton can help your body's immunity.

1.3. Warming up

Eating more mutton in winter can resist the cold and warm our whole body, which is more practical than other supplements.

1.4. Nourish the stomach

Mutton is warm in nature, nourishes qi and yin, warms the body and nourishes the deficiency, whets the appetite and strengthens the body. Modern Chinese medicine believes that eating more mutton in a timely manner can increase digestive enzymes, protect the stomach wall, aid digestion, and can also remove dampness, avoid cold, and warm the heart and stomach.

1.5. Replenishing Qi and Blood

Eating more in winter can promote blood circulation and accelerate metabolism. For those with suffocated Qi, eating more mutton can replenish Qi and keep fit. For example, people who often cough have heavy harmful qi in their bodies, so eating more can make their qi flow smoothly and make them feel better.

1.6. Anti-cancer and anti-cancer

Studies have shown that there is an anti-cancer substance CLA in mutton. This fatty acid called CLA can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. It has obvious effects on the treatment of skin cancer, colon cancer and breast cancer.

2. What are the nutrients of eating mutton at the beginning of winter

Mutton is rich in nutrients, including protein 10%-20%, fat 10%-30%, inorganic salt 0.6%-1.1%, Inorganic salts are rich in calcium, iron, and phosphorus, and iron and phosphorus are highly utilized in the human body. Vitamins are rich in thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin, but have a low sugar content. Generally speaking, mutton is warm in nature, nourishes qi and yin, warms the body and nourishes deficiency, stimulates appetite and strengthens the body. It is called a warming tonic that nourishes yang and nourishes blood and qi in the "Compendium of Materia Medica". Eating more mutton at the right time can remove moisture, avoid coldness, and warm the heart and stomach.

3. How to eat the most nutritious mutton in Beginning of Winter

3.1. Stewing, braising and steaming

can ensure that nutrients are not lost to the greatest extent and have the best nourishing effect. . When stewing, the nutrients are partially dissolved into the soup; when stewing or steaming, the nutrients are basically still in the meat, which is suitable for carnivorous people. When stewing the soup, first simmer some mutton leg bones and backbones over high heat for half an hour to form a milky white soup. Remove the soup bones, then put the washed mutton into the pot, add green onions and ginger and simmer over low heat. If stewed in a casserole, the flavor will be better.

3.2. Rinse rinsing

The mutton smell is small. Many people don't like the smell of mutton, and eating it in a rinse can reduce the smell. In addition, soaking mutton in cold water overnight in winter and one or two hours in summer can also extract the mutton-smelling substances. Need to be reminded that the spicy soup base is used to boil mutton, which is easy to get angry after eating it. You can also eat some foods that promote body fluids and moisturize dryness, such as white fungus and pears, or drink some chrysanthemum tea to relieve internal heat. Since there may be bacteria and parasites in mutton, you should choose mutton slices that have passed quality inspection and cook them until they are cooked through.

3.3. Stir-fried

Can induce sweating. Take mutton stir-fried with green onion as the representative, choose fresh hind leg meat or tenderloin, cut it into thin slices, add fresh green onion, soak it and stir-fry it over high heat. It has the effect of benefiting qi and replenishing deficiency, warming the middle and lower levels, and can also induce sweating and detoxification.

3.4. Roasting and frying

A lot of oil. Representative dishes of grilled and fried mutton include mutton skewers, roasted mutton, etc. These two methods contain a lot of oil, and the cooking temperature is too high, resulting in the most serious nutritional losses.