What does Nanjing Xiaohan eat?
First of all, vegetable rice
Little cold solar terms, old Nanjing pays attention to eating vegetable rice, and its source is estimated to be related to the cold weather. The content of vegetable rice is different. It is cooked with short-legged yellow vegetables and sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck, and then chopped with some ginger and glutinous rice. Very delicious.
This is different from a bowl of "salty and sour rice" made by Shanghai Muma after frying vegetables and bacon, because short-legged yellow, sausage and salted duck are all famous specialties in Nanjing, which can be described as the real "Nanjing vegetable rice".
In the winter weather, reducing sweetness and increasing bitterness is the basic principle of diet. Duck, sausage and ginger in vegetable rice are all warm foods, which can nourish the heart, benefit the lungs and kidney, and make up for the disadvantages brought to the body by strong rustic soil and weak kidney in this season.
In Nanjing vegetable rice, glutinous rice can tonify the middle jiao, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and enhance the human body's ability to resist cold pathogens. Ginger is pungent and warm, and has the effects of sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, warming lung and dispelling cold. In addition, Nanjing's specialty short leg yellow, sausage, salted duck, both medicine and food, delicious, especially warm in winter.
In the past, these seemingly ordinary things were only enjoyed by people with rich family conditions. People with poor economic conditions are unwilling to add meat, so they bury a spoonful of lard in the vegetable rice. At that time, there was not much oil and water in food at ordinary times, so "lard bibimbap" tasted particularly fragrant.
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Old Nanjing also has the habit of eating a chicken and an egg every September, so on this chilly day, there is no shortage of eggs on the table of the citizens.
As the saying goes, "every nine chickens will make you healthy in the coming year." This statement makes sense. Because the human body needs more energy and nutrition in winter, drinking chicken soup regularly for nourishing can not only keep out the cold, but also improve human immunity and prevent influenza. It can be said that delicious and nourishing chicken soup is the first soup in winter.
Chicken soup can improve the immune function of human body, so the role of chicken soup can not be underestimated in the process of defeating colds and flu. During the flu season, drinking chicken soup in moderation is helpful for healthy people to improve their immunity. For those patients who have been infected by influenza virus, it is beneficial to inhibit inflammation and mucus production caused by cold, thus alleviating the pain of patients.
Adding different medicinal materials to chicken soup has different nourishing effects. Adding ginger can nourish essence, relieve colds and improve human immunity; Adding Lycium barbarum can replenish yang, help the growth of yang and resist the cold; The addition of codonopsis pilosula can treat spleen and lung weakness, shortness of breath and palpitation, enhance hematopoietic function, and have a good effect on improving winter chills. Adding Astragalus membranaceus can replenish qi and deficiency, enhance immunity and prevent some infections.
When cooking chicken soup, the order of seasonings is also particular, otherwise the chicken soup will be much inferior. Some people like to put all the seasonings in the chicken soup at the beginning, which is unscientific, because if salt is put in the chicken soup too early, the protein in the chicken will solidify, and the nutrition and delicious taste of the soup will be greatly reduced, which is easy to lead to the result that the soup is light and the meat is not rotten.
So, when can I put the seasoning? When the soup is to be cooked, put salt and other condiments. Don't stir after adding salt, it will leave a salty taste. After adding salt, turn to high heat, and don't uncover it halfway, so the chicken soup will be thicker.
Before and after the slight cold, the daily diet of Nanjing citizens was mainly warm food, such as mutton and mutton soup, and some restaurants also introduced angelica and ginger mutton soup. In recent years, some traditional winter mutton dishes have reappeared on the dining table, reappearing the cold winter eating customs in Nanjing.
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