What goes well with mutton?
Chinese medicine pays attention to the dietotherapy method of "heat is cold", so eating mutton should be accompanied by cold and sweet food, which can play the role of cooling, detoxifying and removing fire. Tofu can not only supplement a variety of trace elements, but also gypsum can clear away heat and purge fire, remove annoyance and quench thirst; Radish is cool, which can eliminate stagnation and phlegm heat. Paired with mutton, it can not only avoid eating mutton to remove fire, but also remove the smell of mutton. Other cool and sweet foods are white gourd, towel gourd, rape, spinach, Chinese cabbage, Flammulina velutipes, mushrooms, lotus roots, water bamboo, Chinese cabbage, sweet potatoes, etc., which can be eaten with mutton.
The benefits of eating mutton in winter
In winter, the yang of the human body is hidden in the body, which makes it easy to have cold hands and feet and poor blood circulation. Chinese medicine believes that mutton is sweet but not greasy, warm but not dry, and has the effects of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, warming qi and blood, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, stimulating appetite and strengthening spleen. Therefore, eating mutton in winter can both keep out the cold and nourish the body, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Mutton is tender than pork, with less fat and cholesterol than pork and beef. It is rich in protein, vitamins B 1, B2 and B6, and trace elements such as iron, zinc and selenium. Mutton has higher calories than other livestock. Eating mutton often in winter can replenish qi and deficiency, promote blood circulation and enhance the ability to keep out the cold. Mutton can also increase digestive enzymes, protect the stomach wall and be easy to digest. So eating more mutton can improve the body's immunity. There is a folk saying that "if you want to live a long life, you should always eat mutton."
Moreover, Chinese medicine believes that "ginseng is beneficial to qi and mutton is beneficial to shape". Mutton is sweet but not greasy, warm but not dry, which can warm the middle energizer, tonify kidney and strengthen yang, stimulate appetite and strengthen tendons, benefit lung and qi, resolve phlegm and relieve asthma, nourish gallbladder and improve eyesight. It is especially suitable for the elderly suffering from asthma, tracheitis, lung disease, deficiency-cold or weak young people, and also has obvious curative effect on gynecological diseases such as irregular menstruation, restless fetal movement, habitual abortion, postpartum abdominal pain, pallor and so on. Healthy people can take it for health care and fitness.