Little cold solar terms, old Nanjing pays attention to eating vegetable rice, and its source is estimated to be related to the cold weather. The so-called vegetable rice is to fry vegetables and rice together, and add bacon, sausage, ham and diced salted duck. Among them, short-legged yellow duck and dried salted duck are famous specialties in Nanjing, which are very distinctive in Nanjing.

In the past, these seemingly ordinary things could only be enjoyed by people with rich family conditions. People with poor economic conditions are unwilling to add meat, so they bury a spoonful of lard in the vegetable rice. At that time, there was not much oil and water in the dishes, so "lard bibimbap" tasted particularly fragrant.

2, Laba porridge.

One of the important folk customs of the slight cold solar terms is to eat "Laba porridge". Before and after the slight cold solar terms, eating such rich hot porridge at this time can not only increase appetite, but also increase the body's heat, thus warming the stomach and dispelling cold.

"Yanjing Years" records that "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut, red cowpea and peeled jujube paste. And local dyeing with red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and miscellaneous grapes. " All the above foods are sweet and warm, and have the effects of regulating the spleen and stomach, tonifying the middle energizer, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, expelling cold and strengthening the body, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Friends can choose the ingredients of Laba porridge according to their eating habits and physical condition, and the cooked Laba porridge will be more suitable for their physique.

3. Mutton.

The "slight cold" is the coldest time of the year, and people are easily attacked by the cold. The quickest and most effective way to resist the cold is not a cotton-padded jacket, but a bowl of steaming mutton soup. Mutton is the most cost-effective warm tonic food. If you cook it with some angelica, yam and carrots and season it with onion and ginger, it is recommended to eat it once a week, so as not to get angry and make it a warm winter.

Angelica and ginger mutton soup with "Angelica and ginger" as the main raw material has the functions of warming the middle warmer, enriching blood, dispelling cold and strengthening the body, and is very suitable for white-collar workers with chronic fatigue and severe sub-health state; Those with weak waist and knees and severe chills are suitable for supplementing "sheep kidney and red ginseng porridge", which has the function of benefiting qi and strengthening yang.

4. Chicken soup.

Old Nanjing also has the nourishing habit of eating a chicken and an egg every September, so on the day of slight cold, chicken soup and eggs are indispensable on the table of citizens. It is said that when cooked slowly with slow fire, most of the nutrients in chicken bones and chicken will be dissolved in the soup and easily absorbed by the human body. It is a good tonic for invigorating qi and enriching blood in winter and contains a lot of calcium.

It would be better to use some health care materials for hen stew. Put whatever you have at home, such as red dates, lotus seeds, medlar, longan and so on. Can also be paired with mushrooms, yam, Cordyceps sinensis or scallops and seaweed. It tastes delicious and peaceful. Stew slowly for 2-3 hours, then skim off the grease. Eating and drinking chicken directly, making hot pot soup base, or cooking noodles with chicken soup in the morning are all good.

5, glutinous rice.

According to the tradition in Guangzhou, Xiao Han eats glutinous rice in the morning. In order to avoid being too glutinous, it is generally 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, stir-fry peanuts, add some chopped green onion and mix with rice.

Glutinous rice means warmth, which is warm from the beginning to the end of the year. Because the sugar content of glutinous rice is higher than that of rice, it feels warm all over after eating, which is conducive to driving out the cold. Theoretically speaking, glutinous rice has the effect of tonifying middle energizer and benefiting qi, and it is most suitable to eat glutinous rice in cold season.

6. Soybean sprouts.

According to "Miscellanies of Jinmen", there was a custom of eating soybean sprouts in Tianjin in the old days. Soybean sprouts are a specialty of Tianjin, made of Chinese cabbage buds. From winter to the future, cut off the stems and leaves of cabbage, leaving only the heart of cabbage, about two inches from the ground, covered with manure, airtight. After half a month, it is crisp and tender, which makes up for the shortage of vegetables in winter.