What to do with chestnuts
Chestnuts roast chicken, this is more famous, you can also chestnut stewed chicken, now peeled chestnuts with a chicken, high fire to medium fire into the stew, chicken tender toughness, chestnuts sticky, mellow and sweet with a fresh aroma. The dish was just served up, the aroma is overflowing, can be delicious
Chestnut taro soup: the red taro, white taro cut into the same size block, add fresh chestnuts stew, a little bit of rock sugar, especially cool and delicious
Chestnut braised pork: to choose the high quality of the meat, with ginger, garlic, green onions, star anise, peppercorns, cinnamon and other auxiliary ingredients and the first basket of chestnuts in the fall, meat, soft and crispy chestnut, the color and flavor are all complete. color and flavor
Chestnut water Baxian: the ingredients of this dish are chestnuts, lotus root, water chestnuts, red rhombus and so on. The unique Jiangnan food and vegetables of the sweet water, into the mouth lips clear teeth cool.
Benefits of eating chestnuts
1, beneficial gas to replenish the spleen, stomach and thick intestines chestnut is a high carbohydrate content of dried fruit varieties, can supply the body with more heat energy.
2, the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease chestnut is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, a variety of vitamins and minerals, can effectively prevent and treat hypertension, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases, beneficial to human health.
3, strong bones, slow aging chestnuts are rich in vitamin C, can maintain the teeth, bones, blood vessels and muscles of the normal function.
4, chestnuts eaten raw, 5 to 8 per day, suitable for vomiting blood, blood in the stool.
5, morning and evening raw chestnuts 2, on the elderly kidney loss, frequent urination is beneficial. With 10 chestnuts and pig kidneys, barley, rice boiled into a porridge, can be treated by the general kidney deficiency caused by the waist and leg weakness.
The health value of chestnuts
① The main effect is to nourish the stomach and spleen, tonifying the kidney and strong tendons, blood circulation, etc., the treatment of regurgitation, vomiting blood, waist and foot weakness, blood, etc., comparable to ginseng, astragalus, angelica, and so on.
② Good treatment for kidney deficiency. Sun Simiao of the Tang Dynasty that chestnut is "the fruit of the kidney, kidney disease should eat."
③ contains unsaturated fatty acids and various vitamins, antihypertension, coronary heart disease, osteoporosis and arteriosclerosis, is anti-aging, prolonging the life of the tonic.
④ Containing vitamin B2, often eat chestnuts for a long time difficult to heal children's mouth sores and adult mouth ulcers are beneficial.
Applicable portion
Each time about 10 appropriate. Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts can replenish the spleen and stomach, tonify the kidney and strengthen the tendons, and activate the blood to stop bleeding. For kidney deficiency has good therapeutic effect, so it is also known as "kidney fruit". However, chestnuts are difficult to digest raw, cooked food is easy to stagnant gas, eat too much at once will hurt the spleen and stomach, eat up to 10 a day can be.
Eating after meals is easy to get fat
It is best to eat chestnuts as a snack between meals, or do in the meal, and do not eat a lot of rice. Because chestnut starch content, eat after meals easy to eat too many calories, not conducive to maintaining weight.
Chestnuts can also be anti-aging
Chestnuts are anti-aging tonic, chestnuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins, minerals, can prevent and treat hypertension, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis and other diseases.