Chicken and pumpkin are common foods. Many housewives have a headache when cooking, and they worry about whether chicken and pumpkin can be eaten together. Then let's answer the question of whether chicken and pumpkin can be eaten together in detail. Come and have a look.
Chicken pumpkin
1 Can chicken and pumpkin be eaten together?
Chicken and pumpkin can be eaten together in moderation.
Pumpkin is warm and sweet, and its main components are cellulose, water, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. However, chicken is sweet and flat, and contains nutrients such as protein, fat, cholesterol, sugar, vitamins and minerals. There is no conflict between the two in taste and ingredients, and they can be eaten together. But pay attention to their respective consumption, and don't eat too much, so as not to cause gastrointestinal discomfort.
Chicken (as food)
What are the benefits of eating chicken and pumpkin in moderation?
1, supplement nutrition
Chicken is rich in nutrition and is often used as a food to tonify deficiency and strengthen the body. It is also a kind of meat with high protein. Pumpkin is a vegetable, which is different from chicken. They contain different nutrients. According to the above ingredients, we can know that eating together can supplement more nutrition.
2, the taste is sweeter
Pumpkin carbohydrate is composed of fructose, glucose, starch and other components, among which fructose accounts for the largest proportion, and fructose is the sweetest in carbohydrate, even sweeter than sucrose, so eating pumpkin will feel sweet and delicious, while chicken contains umami flavor mainly composed of glutamic acid, aspartic acid, glycine, IMP, minerals, etc., both of which are more delicious.
3, more conducive to digestion
Pumpkin is rich in mannitol and dietary fiber. When people eat too much chicken, they can eat some pumpkins to help them digest and defecate.
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How to make pumpkin chicken delicious
1, curry pumpkin chicken soup
Ingredients: pumpkin 200g, chicken 200g, broccoli 50g, carrot 30g, onion 50g, soup 3 cups, salt 1 2 tbsp, pepper 1 tbsp, curry powder1tbsp, onion 50g.
working methods
1. The pumpkin is seeded and diced, the chicken is diced and blanched with boiling water, the onion is sliced and the carrot is diced for later use.
2. Mix all the ingredients with seasoning, first boil it with high fire, then turn to low fire for 20 minutes.
2. Golden pumpkin chicken noodles
Ingredients: 1 handmade hollow noodles, 140g boneless chicken leg, 40g onion, 70g pumpkin, 2 mushrooms, 1 cream soup block, 100g water, and appropriate amount of mozzarella cheese.
working methods
1. Pumpkin is steamed in microwave oven 1 and pressed into mud. Onions and mushrooms are cut into fine powder, and chicken leg meat is cut into small pieces for later use.
2. Put the noodles in boiling water 1 min for half a minute and take them out. You can control the time to determine the hardness of noodles.
3. Heat the oil in the pan and fry the chicken legs until golden brown. Add onion and mushroom and stir-fry until half cooked.
4. Add thick soup pieces, pour water into the pot and boil the ingredients. Put the pumpkin puree into the pot and cook until it becomes thick. Put the noodles in the pot and stir well.
5. Pour the pumpkin chicken soup into a heat-resistant container, sprinkle some mozzarella cheese and bake in a small oven for 8- 10 minutes.
3. Chicken and pumpkin porridge
Ingredients: pumpkin, drumsticks, rice, mushrooms, blanched leaves, ginger, garlic, cooking wine, salt, honey and sugar.
working methods
1. Boned and peeled chicken legs, cut into small pieces and marinated with ginger and garlic, cooking wine, salt and a little honey for more than half an hour.
2. Peel the pumpkin, cut it into small pieces, and blanch the mushroom slices for later use.
3. Heat oil in a non-stick pan, pour in chicken and stir-fry until it changes color (take out ginger and garlic).
4. Boil ordinary rice with water, add pumpkin seeds, boil again, and turn to low heat. You should add enough water at a time, adding water in the middle will affect the quality and taste of porridge.
7. Cook until the porridge is slightly sticky and the pumpkin is slightly soft and rotten. Add mushrooms and louvers, add salt and sugar to taste (stir constantly when cooking, so as not to paste the pot).
8. Pour the chicken into the porridge together with the soup, and turn off the heat until the taste is blended. When cooking this porridge, you should pay attention to the time and temperature of pumpkin addition to ensure that the pumpkin in the cooked porridge is rotten and not scattered. ).
4. Pumpkin chicken rice
Ingredients: pumpkin 300g, 2 cups of rice, 2 drumsticks, 8 fresh mushrooms, half onion, salt 1 teaspoon, fresh soy sauce 1 teaspoon, and a little cooking oil.
working methods
1. Put a little oil in the wok and saute the onion;
2. Add a small piece of chicken leg meat until it changes color;
3. Add pumpkin and mushroom pieces, stir-fry, and turn off the heat;
4. Season with salt and fresh soy sauce and mix well;
5. Wash the rice and add a little water into the rice cooker; Less water than cooking, because pumpkins and mushrooms produce water.
6. Mix the pumpkin chicken together and put it into the rice cooker, and the cooking procedure can be completed.
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4 chicken and what can't be eaten together?
1, beans
Chicken is rich in lipids and protein, so it is not easy to digest by itself. Beans are foods with high amylose content. The structure of this food is more stable than amylopectin, and it is not easy to digest. If chicken and beans are eaten together, it will increase the digestive burden of the stomach and easily cause indigestion. So it is not recommended to eat together.
Common beans are: potatoes, chickpeas, lentils, black beans, broad beans, white kidney beans, mung beans and so on.
2. Plums and persimmons
Chicken contains a lot of protein, while plums and persimmons contain higher tannic acid. Eating protein will have a complex reaction with the tannic acid in the stomach, forming indigestible tannic acid protein complex, increasing the digestive burden and reducing the nutritional absorption of protein. Therefore, it is necessary to eat chicken, plums and persimmons at different times.