High temperature and humidity are the main climatic characteristics in summer, so special attention should be paid to diet during summer. So, what to eat for health in the summer?

As the saying goes, "A little summer is not hot, but a big summer is in the dog days". The big summer is coming on July 22nd, so everyone must be prepared for heatstroke prevention and cooling. The following small series also recommends 1 essential recipes for summer heat, so that everyone can spend a cool summer.

1. stewed old duck with lotus root

materials: lake duck, lotus root, salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper.

Practice: Put the duck after flying water treatment and sliced lotus root into a pot with boiling water, add appropriate amount of salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper, and stew for one hour.

2. Stir-fried potherb with bitter gourd

Ingredients: 1 bitter gourd, 3g mustard, a little salt and vegetable oil.

Practice: Wash and cut the bitter gourd, remove the core and cut into thin slices. Put the bitter gourd slices in cold water and soak them in a spoonful of salt for 2 minutes. After soaking the bitter gourd slices, wash them and squeeze off the water, which can kill the bitter taste of bitter gourd well. Pour the oil in a hot pan, add the cabbage and stir-fry until fragrant, add the bitter gourd slices and stir-fry, and add a little salt to serve.

3. Green Pepper Broiler

Materials: 5g of chicken leg meat, 2 egg whites, 4 green peppers, 5g of winter bamboo shoots meat, 25g of yellow wine, 5g of refined salt, 4g of monosodium glutamate, 1.5g of sugar, 15g of water chestnut powder, 1g of vegetable oil (actual consumption), 1g of pepper and 2.5g of chopped green onion.

practice: pat the chicken leg lightly, chop it a few times, cut it into 1cm cubes, put it into a bowl, add wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, egg white, clear water (1g) and water caltrop, grab it and mix it thoroughly, add vegetable oil (5g), wake up for one hour, cut off the pedicel seeds of green pepper and cut it into diced chicken with winter bamboo shoots for later use. Take a small bowl, add wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, clear soup, pepper, sugar, water chestnut and mix well as seasoning; Heat a wok and add vegetable oil. When the oil temperature reaches 5%, add diced chicken, diced green pepper and diced bamboo shoots, spread until cooked, pour in a colander, drain the oil, add 5g vegetable oil, stir-fry chopped green onion and ginger rice while the wok is hot, add diced chicken, diced bamboo shoots, diced green pepper and a small bowl for seasoning, turn it over a few times, and put it into a pot.

4. Bitter chrysanthemum mixed with amaranth

Material: Bitter chrysanthemum and amaranth each 25g.

practice: put the bitter chrysanthemum and amaranth in a pot and blanch them with hot water, then put them on a plate and add seasonings such as salt and garlic, twice a day. It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, expelling toxin and caring skin, and is suitable for people with various symptoms of liver-fire such as bitter taste, anxiety, dryness and heat, constipation and hemorrhoids.

5. Clear eggplant

Materials: 5g tender eggplant, 15g coriander, garlic, rice vinegar, sugar, sesame oil, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, refined salt and pepper.

Practice: Wash and peel eggplant, cut it into small pieces, put it in a bowl, sprinkle with a little salt, then put it in cold water, soak the eggplant brown, take it out, steam it in a steamer, and take it out to 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.

6. Old duck dried bamboo shoots soup

Ingredients: an old duck, some dried bamboo shoots, and appropriate amount of ginger.

Practice: Wash the old duck, chop it into pieces of uniform size, soak the dried bamboo shoots in warm water and soften them, then drain them, and cut the ginger into pieces. The old duck boiled in boiling water for 3 minutes to remove blood. Take out, put the old duck into the soup pot with cold water, inject enough cold water, boil it with high fire, remove the foam on the surface of the soup, put down the ginger slices and dried bamboo shoots, pour the wine, and turn to low heat for 3 and a half hours. Open the lid, season with salt, and stew for half an hour.

7. Water chestnut duck soup

Ingredients: 1g water chestnut, 1 water duck, 2g onion, 15g ginger, 2g cooking wine and a little salt.

practice: slaughter the duck to remove hair and internal organs; The horseshoe is peeled and everything is split in half; Slice onion and ginger. Put the duck in a pot, add horseshoe, onion, ginger, salt and cooking wine, add appropriate amount of water, bring it to a boil with strong fire, and simmer until the duck is cooked. This soup has the effects of diuresis, detumescence and clearing away heat and toxic materials.

8. Spinach porridge

Ingredients: 2g of spinach, 2g of japonica rice, and proper amount of seasonings such as salt, onion, ginger and coriander.

practice: first, wash the japonica rice, add water to the pot, cook on fire, and chop the spinach for later use. When the porridge is almost cooked, add spinach and seasonings such as salt, onion, ginger and coriander, and cook for a while. Spinach porridge is light and easy to digest, and has the functions of soothing the liver, nourishing blood, moistening the intestines and improving eyesight. It is suitable for all people, especially for people who are old and weak, blood deficiency and intestinal dryness, habitual constipation and decreased vision.

9. Stewed lean broth with apple tremella

Materials: apple, tremella, lean meat and black dates.

practice: soak the tremella until soft, tear off the yellow part of the pedicle, and then tear it into a block of moderate size; Wet the apple, rub it with proper amount of salt for a while, and wash it; Cut into 6 petals and remove the core; Wash carrots and cut into pieces; Black dates are washed clean; Clean lean meat, cut into pieces, and soak it in water; Boil clear water, pour it into a saucepan, add all the ingredients, stew for two hours, season with salt and serve.

1. Qingbuliang Decoction

Ingredients: 15g of dried yam, 15g of lotus seed, 15g of dried lily and dried longan, 1g of Gordon Euryale seed, 1g of jujube and Polygonatum odoratum, and 1-2 tablespoons of sugar.

practice: pour 3 cups of water into the pot, add all the raw materials except dried longan, boil over medium heat, and cook over low heat for 2-3 minutes. Then add dried longan and continue to cook over low heat for 2-3 minutes. Finally, add sugar and cook evenly, and serve in a bowl. Polygonatum odoratum has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, promoting fluid production and nourishing stomach, while Euryale ferox has the effects of invigorating qi, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness. It has the effects of invigorating spleen and qi, and clearing lung.