Materials: lotus root, glutinous rice, rock sugar, sugar osmanthus, salt.
Practice:
1. Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water for 24 hours.
2. Clean the lotus root, keep the skin, cut off the head of the lotus root with a knife, and fill the holes of the lotus root with the soaked glutinous rice by hand, gently knocking the lotus root vertically while filling it in, or poking it with chopsticks, so that the glutinous rice can fill the holes of the lotus root sufficiently.
3. Put the head of the lotus root, which has just been cut off, as a cover on the lotus root, and seal the mouth with a few toothpicks.
4. pot into the water can not over the lotus root, high heat, until the water boils, add rock sugar, sugar cinnamon and salt, cover the lid, change to low heat and cook for 1 ? hours, out of the cool slices, can be drizzled with a little sugar cinnamon or honey before serving, the flavor is better.
5. In the cooking of glutinous rice lotus root, add sugar cinnamon is to let its aromatic flavor into the lotus root, and finally in the slicing plate and then drizzle some sugar cinnamon not only the color will be very good, but also better taste.
Nutritional value:
Lotus root: it is very suitable for people who have blood stasis, vomiting blood, epistaxis, urinary blood, blood in stool, and women in labor. Lotus root can also reduce summer heat and heat, and is a good food to get rid of summer heat.
Glutinous rice: it has the effect of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, strengthening the spleen, nourishing the stomach, and stopping the effect of sweating, and it has the effect of alleviating the coldness of the spleen and stomach, poor appetite, and bloating and diarrhea to a certain extent; glutinous rice has the effect of astringency and it has a better therapeutic effect on the frequency of urination and night sweating.
Cinnamon: has good medicinal value. Loss of appetite, phlegm coughing, hemorrhoids, dysentery, menstrual closure and abdominal pain has a certain effect.