Longan has many benefits of invigorating qi and enriching blood. Five special ways to eat are delicious and healthy if cooked for three to five days.
Speaking of longan, it is a good fruit for women. Longan contains a large number of trace elements that are beneficial to human health, and has good effects of nourishing blood, tranquilizing mind, strengthening brain, improving intelligence, nourishing heart and strengthening spleen. It has a good effect on insomnia, neurasthenia, hypomnesis and anemia. It has been suggested in China that longan will become a rare anti-aging food. At the same time, many countries have conducted anti-cancer research on hundreds of natural foods and drugs, and found that the inhibition rate of longan on uterine cancer cells is over 90%, and female menopause is a stage prone to gynecological tumors. Eating longan properly is good for your health.
First course: longan, lotus seed, corn and pig bone soup
Ingredients: salt, fragrant leaves, chicken essence, star anise, ginger, cooking wine, medlar, longan, pig bones, corn and lotus seeds.
Specific method steps: 1, buy back fresh pig bones, the spine is the best, and the corn is cut into sections; 2, put water in the pot, put the water into the pig bones, cook for ten minutes to remove blood foam, take it out and wash it with water; 3. Put pig bones, corn, lotus seeds, longan, medlar, ginger, star anise, fragrant leaves and cooking wine into a pressure cooker, add a proper amount of water, add salt and cover the pot; 4. Press the cook the meat key of the pressure cooker until the pressure cooker automatically stops working and the air valve falls; 5. After boiling, add chicken essence, and a bowl of delicious and nutritious longan lotus seed corn pig bone soup is ready.
The second kind of food: red dates, longan and glutinous rice porridge.
Ingredients: longan, red dates, glutinous rice, red beans and raisins.
Specific method steps: 1, put all the required materials into a basin and wash them clean, or soak them one night in advance and cook them the next day; 2. Wash red dates, red beans, raisins, longan and glutinous rice. I peeled the longan and washed it. 3, all the materials into the pot, pour 3 bowls of water, press the cooking button; 4. Cook for 30 minutes, open the lid and stir. I cooked it with essence for another 20 minutes. The rice is rotten and the beans are cooked, and the red dates are fragrant.
Third course: Steamed pumpkin with longan
Ingredients: pumpkin, dried longan and honey.
Specific method steps: 1, peeled pumpkin and cut into small pieces; 2. Peel longan; 3. Put the cut pumpkin longan on the plate and pour two spoonfuls of honey; 4. Put in a steamer and steam for 20 minutes, then serve.
The fourth food: longan porridge
Ingredients: Lycium barbarum, longan, pearl rice and red dates.
Specific method steps: 1, washing rice, red dates and longan; 2. At the same time, pour it into a pot of boiling water, cover the pot and boil it over high heat, and cook it over low heat until the rice blooms; 3. Add Lycium barbarum, cook for another two minutes, and turn off the heat.
Fifth course: Braised pork knuckle with longan.
Ingredients: longan, pig's hand
Specific method steps: 1, peeling longan for later use; 2. Wash the pig's hands and cook for about ten minutes to remove the smell; 3, the pig hand cut flower knife, together with longan into the pressure cooker, water is added at one time; 4. Stew in a pressure cooker for 70 minutes; 5. Add a little salt to the pot.
However, although this longan is so good, it is a damp and hot thing, and it is easy to stagnate if you eat too much. People with excessive internal heat and phlegm-dampness constitution are not suitable for eating, and are more suitable for the weak and women. Even so, it is good to eat five longan a day, and it is easy to get angry if you eat too much.