1, mashed garlic eggplant
Ingredients: 300g of eggplant, 3 cloves of garlic, balsamic vinegar, sugar, sesame oil, chicken essence and salt.
Practice: Wash eggplant (without peeling) and cut into strips about 1.5cm thick. Put it in a plate and steam it in a steamer. Take out, cooling, and refrigerate; Peel and wash garlic and press it into garlic paste; Add all the "seasonings" to make a sauce; Take out the frozen eggplant, pour in the sauce and mix well.
Efficacy: Eggplant is rich in nutrition, and garlic is spicy and bactericidal. The combination of the two is very helpful to health. Steamed eggplant tastes soft and tender, and with various seasonings, it tastes fresh, fragrant and refreshing, which is very suitable for summer consumption.
2. Cold celery
Ingredients: a handful of celery, peanut oil, sesame oil and a little salt.
Practice: Pick the leaves of celery and wash them. Put water in the pot, add peanut oil after boiling, and then add celery. It doesn't take too long to cook for three or four minutes. Then take the celery out and put it in cold water for supercooling, peel it (boiled celery is easy to peel), cut it into sections, put it on a plate, sprinkle a little salt and mix well, pour in a little sesame oil and mix well.
Efficacy: Cold celery is crisp and refreshing, especially appetizing, especially suitable for people with poor appetite in summer.
3. Old cucumber lean broth
Ingredients: old cucumber 1 500g, lean meat 400g, adzuki bean100g, 4 candied dates, dried tangerine peel1piece.
Practice: Wash the old cucumber, cut off the melon and cut it into large pieces. Wash the original lean meat; Wash the red beans, too. Soak the tangerine peel and wash it. Boil a proper amount of clear water, add old cucumber, lean meat, red beans, candied dates and dried tangerine peel, and boil for 2 hours, until the soup is cooked and seasoned.
Efficacy: This soup is suitable for drinking in hot days, and can clear away heat, relieve summer heat, quench thirst and induce diuresis.
4. Sweet and sour lotus root slices
Ingredients: 500g lotus root, balsamic vinegar, sugar and sesame oil.
Practice: wash the lotus root, scrape and peel it, then cut it into thin slices. After cutting it into thin slices, put the lotus root slices into clear water and drop a few drops of white vinegar to soak for a while; Put half a pot of water in the pot, boil it until it boils, and then put the lotus root slices in and blanch them; Take out the lotus root slices, soak them in cold water 1 min, take out and drain; Then put the lotus root slices into a large bowl, add 2 spoonfuls of sugar and 2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar, and pour a small amount of sesame oil after stirring evenly.
Efficacy: The sweet and sour taste of sweet and sour lotus root slices is very appetizing in summer, especially suitable for people with loss of appetite.
5, bitter gourd fried pork
Ingredients: bitter gourd, pork 500g each, salt and soy sauce.
Practice: Wash bitter gourd and pork and cut them into pieces for later use; Put two tablespoons of salt into bitter gourd to get rid of astringency, and after 3 minutes, wash the salt from bitter gourd with clear water; Pour a small amount of oil into the pot, first pour the pork in and stir-fry until cooked, then add bitter gourd and stir-fry together; Wait until the bitter gourd is cooked and add the right amount of salt and soy sauce to taste.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and eliminating fire.