Many students who don't go to work and middle-aged and elderly people may plan to spend this hot summer in air-conditioned rooms. It is good to blow air conditioners, but some middle-aged and elderly people may not like to blow air conditioners, so they can work hard on their diet. The dog days are approaching, no matter rich or poor, we should eat more four kinds of food, consolidate the foundation and cultivate the yuan, and spend the summer in peace.

The first kind of food: yam

Yam is a food that nourishes the spleen and stomach. Yam tastes sweet and has the function of assisting digestion. Yam is also rich in vitamins and plant proteins, which can improve human immunity. Middle-aged and elderly people and children often eat yam, which can also develop intelligence and improve memory. Eating yam regularly for middle-aged and elderly people can help you calm down.

There are also many delicious foods that yam can make, such as jujube paste yam cake and blueberry yam paste. Does it feel a bit cumbersome to listen to the name? In fact, it is very simple. Let's take a look at how to do it.

Recommended recipe: jujube paste yam cake

Prepare ingredients: yam, seedless red dates, medlar, white sugar glutinous rice flour.

Step one

Soak red dates and medlar one night in advance and set aside. Cut yam into thin slices and soak it in water and set aside.

Step 2

Boil water in a pot, put the yam slices into a bowl, sprinkle with white sugar and stir well. Steam over high fire for about 25 minutes, take them out and let them cool.

Boil water in another pot, shred the red dates and put them in a bowl, sprinkle with white sugar and mix well. Heat them in high fire for about 15 minutes, then take them out and let them cool.

Step 3

The cooled yam is pressed into mud, then glutinous rice flour is added, kneaded into dough by hand, and then left aside for 15 minutes; Put the red dates aside into a juicer and beat them into jujube paste and set aside for later use.

Step 4

Take a piece of yam dough and press it into a round cake shape, add a proper amount of jujube paste and knead it into a ball. If there is a mold, put it into the mold and press it. Bring the pot to boil water, steam the prepared ball 10 minute to remove it, and you can eat it.

The second food: pepper

Zanthoxylum bungeanum is suitable for people with cold pain in stomach and abdomen or loss of appetite. For example, middle-aged and elderly people with wind-cold-damp arthritis and women's dysmenorrhea can eat pepper. Pepper is not a simple seasoning, but also can be made into food. Let's take a look at what food pepper can be made into.

Recommended recipe: pepper, ginger and jujube tea

Prepare ingredients: seedless red dates, brown sugar, ginger and pepper

Step one

Peel and slice ginger, and put pepper into high-speed blender to make powder, or stir-fry in a pot and press it into powder with a rolling pin.

Step 2

Boil the water from the pot, put the chopped ginger slices, red dates and pepper powder into the pot and boil it over medium heat, stirring constantly during the boiling process, and then turn off the heat by pressing it over low heat to make a sticky paste.

Step 3

Take it out, cool it and put it in a glass bottle. When you want to drink it, take out a spoonful and brew it with water. (Tips: Pregnant women are not allowed to eat)

The third kind of food: wonton

In our north, there is a saying "eat jiaozi when you are prostrating", but in the south, what is the saying? In the south, you will eat wonton when you are prostrate, and there is a saying that "there is two volts of tea in your head."

Wonton and jiaozi are both wrapped in leather bags, but they also have many differences. For example, the thin skin of wonton takes a short time, the cooked skin is transparent and the stuffing inside can be seen vaguely, and the thick skin of jiaozi takes a long time to cook; Wonton pays attention to soup, while jiaozi pays attention to dipping. There is only one cooking method for wonton, while there are three cooking and frying methods in jiaozi.

Chaos with soup, drink it and sweat, for people who stay in air-conditioned rooms every day, they can get rid of the moisture in their bodies.

The fourth food: chicken

Chicken is rich in protein, which is delicious and nutritious. Many pregnant women will drink chicken soup to recuperate after delivery.

Recommended recipe: red-cooked chicken pieces

Prepare ingredients: chicken legs, some dried peppers, octagonal peppers, onion, ginger and garlic, soy sauce, soy sauce, oil-consuming rock sugar.

Step one

Cut onion and dried pepper into sections, slice ginger, cut garlic into pieces, and chicken leg and chicken nuggets.

Step 2

Heat oil from the pan, add onion, ginger, garlic, dried Chili and bean paste, stir-fry with low heat, then pour in chicken with soy sauce and star anise pepper and stir well.

Step 3

Stir-fry evenly, pour boiling water into the chicken pieces, simmer for about half an hour, add appropriate amount of salt to taste after half an hour, and collect juice on high fire to serve.