Winter is the best time of the year in the maintenance, accumulation, at this time the food supplement, both to nourish the body can enhance the body, but also enhance the body's ability to resist disease. There are many ways to supplement food, practice has proved that the best stew. Because stew not only can maintain the original flavor of food, and most of the nutrients melted in the soup, will not be lost. At the same time is also a major feature of Lingnan food culture.
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Stew has a history of thousands of years
Talking about stew, in China has a history of thousands of years. As far away as the late Neolithic period, there are tripods, li, Zhen and other pottery, these are the earliest "steam drawer" and "steamer". China's earliest "water boiling method" of stew was produced.
Provincial people stew nothing more than a big pot, a good bit of a casserole or something, but the Cantonese use is a stew pot, small and exquisite, the lid of the cup is sometimes still sealed with wet paper before stewing.
In the view of the foreigners, "stew" means slowly, means wasting time. Foreigners are not big on stew, listen to the names of these northern dishes: "pork stewed vermicelli", "chicken stewed mushrooms", "potatoes stewed eggplant", the most ruthless and one of the "Northeast stew". "Northeastern stew", even in the unit demoted is called "stewed mushrooms". But the poor mountains and bad water "stew", once in Guangdong has become a beautiful mountain and water, but also beautiful name: stew. This is because of the Guangdong people's unique concept of therapeutic nourishment.
Cantonese people most understand the word "stew" to water and fire to achieve the food and tonic, food and medicine to help, focus on health. The stew is divided into clear and tonic type and nourishing strong type. Clear tonic type of chicken stewed lotus seed, clear tonic cold stewed lean meat, American ginseng stewed bamboo chicken, chicken feet stewed peanuts, etc.; nourishing and strong type of party ginseng stewed Astragalus bamboo chicken, Chinese wolfberry stewed dog, Chinese wolfberry stewed rabbit, American ginseng stewed chicken, Chinese wolfberry stewed mutton, and so on. (Yan Tao)
Stewing and supplementing the doorway
Here to point out is that winter supplementation must be symptomatic and different from person to person, pay attention to the "right way".
If you often feel weak in the limbs, mental fatigue, low voice, movement is sweating, which mostly belongs to the gas deficiency, you can use ginseng, ginseng, ginseng, schizandra and other beneficial drugs and soybeans, jujubes, chestnuts, carrots, beef, rabbit, and other food with the stew.
If the face is yellow, pale lips, dizziness, dizziness, heartbeat, insomnia, tinnitus and palpitations, most of them belong to the blood deficiency, you can use the Colla Corii Asini, cinnamon meat, Angelica sinensis, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, white peony, ten whole tonic pills and tonic creams and other blood nourishing medicines and longan, lychee, grapes, black sesame seeds, beef liver, lamb's liver, and other food products with stewing.
When the hands and feet are not warm, fear of cold, urination, some may also have a decline in sexual function, manifested in spermatorrhea, impotence, etc., which mostly belongs to the yang deficiency, you can use antler velvet slices, ginseng and velvet slices, baji tian, xian ling zhen, mealybugs, etc., to help the yang and benefit from the fire of the medicinal materials and walnuts, shrimp, lamb, dog meat, sea cucumber, etc., with the food with stewed.
Yin deficiency people, often have a low fever, afternoon facial flushing, night sweating, hot hands and feet and dry mouth, dry eyes and other symptoms, should be selected as tian dong, mai dong, raw land, wolfberry, jade bamboo, tortoise board or the great tonic yin pills, six flavors of the pill, such as yin tonic and kidney tonic medicinal herbs and pears, mulberries, sugar cane, lotus root, fungus, duck meat and other foods with stewed.
But remember, avoid cold, greasy things, so as not to impede the digestive function of the spleen and stomach, affecting the absorption of tonic. In the case of colds, fever, diarrhea, etc., should be temporarily suspended.
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Stew a chicken put how much angelica?
Chicken stewed with angelica and astragalus is a commonly used method of tonic food therapy, suitable for postpartum, after illness and the elderly and weak patients. But how much angelica and how much astragalus is appropriate for a stewed chicken? If the combination is not appropriate, or bitter flavor is too strong, it is difficult to enter, or make the chicken soup is tasteless, not to achieve the purpose of the body tonic.
According to the evidence, this formula is in China's Yuan Dynasty famous medical doctor Mr. Li Dongyuan formulated "angelica blood soup" based on the flavoring and become. The original dosage of astragalus one or two (ancient weighing unit, equivalent to 31.25 grams), angelica two money (6.2 grams), the ratio is 5 to 1. According to this, after clinical observation, stew a chicken (about 2 kilograms), generally with 120 grams of astragalus, 24 grams of angelica is appropriate. In this way, the flavor of chicken soup is not only delicious and tasty, but also enhances the tonic effect. (Wu Xiuying)
Classic stew
North and South Apricot Chuanbei stewed partridge
Ingredients: North and South Apricot 4 grams of each, 6 grams of Chuanbei, 150 grams of partridge, ginger, ginger.
Soup analysis: North apricot taste bitter and slightly warm, South apricot taste sweet but bitter, can stop coughing and asthma, laxative, Chuanbei taste bitter and sweet nature of cold, phlegm, cough, heat dissipation of the effect of the partridge sweet and warm phlegm benefit the five viscera, combined with the **** to play the phlegm and cough effect.
Making points: the partridge good clean, plus ginger and onion flying water to remove the fishy flavor, and cleaned with the North and South Apricot, Chuanbei together into the stew pot, add 300 milliliters of water across the water fire stew for 2 hours into.
Applicable people: upper respiratory tract infections, acute and chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, acute and chronic tonsillitis and dry cough or sputum less viscous, dry cough without phlegm, sore throat and constipation.
Round meat wolfberry stew abalone
Materials: 10 grams of cinnamon meat, wolfberry 10 grams, 60 grams of lean meat and fresh abalone 1, ginger moderate.
Soup analysis: round meat taste sweet and warm, there are complementary benefits to the heart and spleen blood and tranquilize the role of the spirit, not nourishing greasy and not Yong Qi, for the nourishment of good medicine, wolfberry taste sweet and flat, can nourish yin and tonify the blood, the benefit of the essence of the eyesight, abalone, sweet and salty, can nourish yin and the benefit of the essence of the eyesight, the combination of blood and tranquillity of the spirit of peace, the heart of mind and wisdom.
Making points: the round meat of wolfberry pick impurities, clean, and cleaned fresh abalone, lean meat, ginger into the stew pot, add water 300 ml of water stewed 3 hours of martial arts.
Applicable people: anemia of the heart and spleen deficiency, thrombocytopenia, neurasthenia of insomnia, forgetfulness and palpitations, post-disease, postpartum weakness of the spirit of fatigue. Arteriosclerosis, early aging, eye diseases, liver and gallbladder diseases belonging to the liver and kidney deficiency, essence and blood deficiency.