Time flies too fast. It's almost the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. Streets and alleys are filled with cheerful festive atmosphere. Red lanterns are hung in front of the supermarket to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the food about the Mid-Autumn Festival is dazzling. Everyone knows to eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, but besides moon cakes, these five foods can also help you spend the full moon. They are all seasonal fruits and vegetables, fresh and cheap. I call them the five treasures of Mid-Autumn Festival. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, I always buy some of these five ingredients, which are seasonal, nutritious and delicious, and it is good for my health to eat them regularly.
The first kind of food, sweet potato.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, sweet potatoes are ripe and dug holes, and strings of sweet potatoes of different sizes are dug out of the ground, big ones are boiled in soup, and small ones are cooked or roasted. That smell can make people cry. Sweet potato not only has balanced nutrition, but also has little-known effects of preventing sub-health, losing weight and keeping fit. As early as the Ming Dynasty, the physician Li Shizhen once said: "People in the sea live long, and eating sweet potatoes is also the same reason." . It means that eating more sweet potatoes can be healthy and long-lived, which is of great benefit to the body.
Recommended dishes: red dates, sweet potatoes and ginger soup
Ingredients: sweet potato, red dates, ginger, rock sugar.
Operating steps: 1 Wash sweet potatoes, peel and cut into pieces, wash red dates, wash ginger and slice.
2. Put all the ingredients into the soup pot, add water, and cook over high fire until the sweet potato is soft and rotten.
Finally, according to everyone's taste, add rock sugar to taste and cook until it melts.
The second food, taro.
Taro is also a mature food around Mid-Autumn Festival. Delicate taste, sweet and delicious, both edible and as a vegetable. This is a tonic suitable for all ages. Among the minerals contained in taro, the content of fluorine is high. Eating taro often has the advantages of cleaning teeth, preventing caries and protecting teeth. Taro also contains a mucus protein, which can produce an immunoglobulin after being absorbed by the human body, which can improve the body's resistance and prevent the body from being attacked by viruses.
Recommended dish: steamed spare ribs with taro.
Ingredients: taro, ribs, salt, chives, ginger, cooking wine, soy sauce, dried peppers.
Operating Steps: 1 Wash the ribs first, control the moisture, add seasoning and marinate for a while.
Then put on gloves, clean the taro, cut it into your favorite shape, put it at the bottom of the plate, and cover it with marinated ribs.
Then put the plate in a steamer and steam it, and you can enjoy it.
The third food, chestnuts.
Recommended dish: steamed chestnuts
Ingredients: chestnuts and honey.
Operating steps: 1 Clean the chestnut first, then put it in a ventilated place to dry the water on the surface, and then cut the surface of the chestnut, which is convenient for shelling.
Then put the chestnuts on a steamer and steam them over high fire. 10 minutes later, the chestnuts will be fully open.
3 Open the lid and brush the honey, then steam it for 10 minute, and the sweet and soft chestnut can be cooked.
The fourth kind of gourmet pumpkin.
Pumpkins can also be harvested in this season. The fully ripe pumpkin has a thin layer of frost on its surface. When we were young, the harvested pumpkins often filled the whole room. Pumpkin is a treasure. It can be used as medicine all over the body. It can not only satisfy hunger, but also has certain dietotherapy value, and has the effects of promoting growth, promoting diuresis and relaxing bowels, and protecting gastric mucosa.
Recommended dish: pumpkin millet porridge
Ingredients: pumpkin, millet, medlar, rock sugar.
Operating steps: 1 Wash and soak the millet for a while, then wash, peel and cut the pumpkin.
2 Put the pumpkin pieces into the pot, add water, bring to a boil, then add the soaked millet, continue to boil over high fire, then turn to low heat and stew until the pumpkin is soft and rotten.
Add rock sugar to taste before cooking, and cook until the rock sugar melts. Put Lycium barbarum on it, it looks good and delicious.
The fifth food, peanuts.
Peanut is also a unique product this season. Although peanuts are sold all year round, peanuts are undoubtedly the freshest nowadays. Nourishing in autumn focuses on moistening the lungs, and peanuts are rich in fatty oil, which can moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Eating peanuts regularly can also promote children's brain development, improve children's intelligence, enhance the memory function of the brain, activate brain cells of middle-aged and elderly people, delay premature aging of the human body, and have anti-aging benefits.
Recommended dish: boiled peanuts
Ingredients: raw flowers with skin, salt, pepper, star anise, cinnamon, dried pepper.
Operating steps: 1 Soak peanuts for a while, then wash off the soil on the surface of peanuts, and then pinch a hole in the head of peanuts.
Next, put the peanuts in the pot, add water, and then add all the seasonings. After the fire boils, continue to stew for 10 minutes, then turn to low heat for 20 minutes, and then turn off the fire.
After turning off the fire, don't rush out of the pot, just leave it like this, let the peanuts soak in the soup and cool naturally, so that the boiled peanuts are more delicious.
Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, so you should always eat these five treasures, which are affordable, nutritious and healthy, suitable for autumn and winter!
The above five treasures are the foods I recommend you to eat more before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Do you have any good food recommendations? Welcome everyone to leave a message in the comment area and share it with Ai Xi. Cooking is limited, please advise.
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