After entering winter, the days are short and the nights are long, which is the season for nourishing the body. Daily life should conform to the characteristics of the season, go to bed early and get up late. Going to bed early can maintain the body's yang energy and keep the body warm, while getting up late can help the body nourish the body.
Yin Qi, and the weather in winter is cold and dry. In addition to eating more stews and soups to warm up the cold, you should also drink more water and eat more nourishing ingredients to replenish the body's water loss.
For example: Ingredients for stir-fried beef with tomato sauce and enoki mushrooms: half a pound of beef, 1 handful of enoki mushrooms, 2 tomatoes, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 shallot, 5 dried chili peppers, a dozen peppercorns; 1 spoon of light soy sauce, half a spoon of cooking wine, oyster sauce
2 tablespoons, appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence.
1. Cut the beef. This is the first tip to make the beef smooth and tender. Soak the beef for 20 minutes, rinse it and remove the blood, look at the direction of the muscle fibers of the beef, and cut it into thin slices horizontally. Do not cut along the fiber. This can basically guarantee
Beef is not filling your teeth.
2. First add half a spoonful of salt and 1 spoonful of light soy sauce and mix well. Marinate for 5 minutes. Put the beef into a bowl. Add water to just cover the beef. Keep mixing until all the water in the bowl is absorbed.
The beef is absorbed. The beef that has absorbed the water will be crystal clear. Add an appropriate amount of pepper, 1 tablespoon of dry starch, and about 1 tablespoon of oil according to your personal taste. Grip evenly and lock in the moisture. The work of marinating the beef is complete.
3. Put an appropriate amount of oil in the pot, put the processed enoki mushrooms into medium heat and slowly fry until the enoki mushrooms are slightly browned, then take them out and set aside. Put oil in the wok. When the oil temperature is 60% hot, pour in the marinated beef.
Add to the pot and stir-fry until it changes color.
4. Add garlic slices, green onions, dried chilies, and Sichuan peppercorns to release the aroma. Add the fried enoki mushrooms, peeled and diced tomatoes into the pot, stir-fry over medium heat and simmer for 3 minutes.
, add 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce, appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence to taste, stir-fry evenly and then take it out of the pan and put it on a plate.
Of course, mutton is also good. It is warm in nature and can warm the stomach and keep out the cold. It is the best delicacy with dual effects of tonic and cold protection in winter.
Mutton can help yang, replenish essence and blood, and treat lung deficiency. It is very beneficial to patients with asthma, tracheitis, lung disease, and deficiency and cold.
Recommended way to eat: Cabbage, radish and mutton soup - a great tonic to dispel cold.