1. Beginning of Summer broad bean rice

1. How to make Beginning of Summer broad bean rice

Soak the dried mushrooms in advance, wash the glutinous rice and rice and set aside. Blanch the short ribs and drain. Shred bacon and shiitake mushrooms.

Heat oil in the pot, add bacon and short ribs, stir-fry until fragrant, add shredded bamboo shoots, broad beans, and mushrooms, stir-fry for 2 minutes, then add drained glutinous rice and rice. Continue to stir-fry for 3 minutes. Add seasoning wine, chicken essence, salt, light soy sauce and water and bring to a boil. Pour into the rice cooker and press the cooking button. (Add less water so that all mixed ingredients are level with each other, otherwise there will be too much water and the broad bean rice will be too glutinous and unpalatable.

2. Steps to make broad bean rice

Glutinous rice, Broad beans, prunes, shrimps, mushrooms, pork, and green onions are all ready.

Soak the glutinous rice for 1 hour, peel the broad beans, and cut the mushrooms, pork, shrimps, and green onions into small pieces and set aside. /p>

Cover the steamer with gauze, pour the soaked glutinous rice into the steamer, and steam over high heat for 20 minutes.

Pour a little oil into the pot and heat it, add the scallions and saute until fragrant. Add the pork and stir-fry.

Add the shrimp and mushrooms to the pot and stir-fry until fragrant.

Add the broad beans and stir-fry. >

Stir-fry the broad beans and stir-fry the prunes.

Pour in hot water to cover the broad beans and cook until the soup dries up.

At this time, the glutinous rice is ready. The rice is also steamed.

Stir-fry the broad beans and add the glutinous rice.

Add the green onions and mix well.

Make the broad bean rice. Okay.

3. Are broad beans called broad beans?

Broad beans are also called broad beans and Buddha beans. In the Jiangnan area, they like to eat beans during the Beginning of Summer, so they are also called Ningbo beans. People are accustomed to calling broad beans, and around the beginning of summer, almost every household eats broad beans and likes to eat broad beans. Many people also cook broad beans with rice in one pot and call it "broad bean rice".

According to "Taiping Yulan" records that broad beans were brought back by Zhang Qian during his mission to the Western Regions. Indeed, broad beans were both food and side dishes, and the author lived in Sanbei (now Zhejiang) when he was a child. Cixi) countryside. Most of the rural areas in Sanbei are salty fields (the soil is salty and evolved from tidal flats). What is grown in the fields is either broad beans or cotton. During the broad bean season in April and May every year, many people regard broad beans as a staple food. Broad beans are eaten both as a vegetable and as a meal. In cities, broad beans are mostly eaten as side dishes, and dried broad beans can be eaten as both side dishes and "snack food." As for the Jianfu area, broad beans are also regarded as a snack. A high-quality nourishing product, its value is much higher than that of longan.

In fact, broad beans and broad beans are the same food. It’s just that broad beans have many other names, so many people can’t tell the difference between broad beans and broad beans. .

2. What to eat in the Beginning of Summer to maintain health

1. Crucian carp and astragalus soup

Ingredients: 200 grams of fresh crucian carp, 20 grams of astragalus, and 12 grams of fried mandarin orange. , appropriate amounts of ginger, shallots, monosodium glutamate, and refined salt.

Preparation: Dissect the internal organs of the crucian carp, remove the gills, and wash them; slice the astragalus into slices, pack them in a gauze bag with the tangerine husks, and tie the mouth tightly. ; Wash and chop the ginger and shallots. First put the medicine bag into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook for about half an hour. Then add the crucian carp and cook with it. When the fish is cooked, remove the medicine bag and add ginger, green onions, refined salt, and MSG to taste. Serve.

2. Stewed Pork Liver with Scrophulariaceae

Ingredients: 15 grams of Scrophulariaceae, 500 grams of fresh pork liver, vegetable oil, soy sauce, ginger, Chives, white sugar, cooking wine, and appropriate amount of wet starch.

Preparation: Wash the pig liver, put it into the pot with Scrophulariaceae at the same time, add an appropriate amount of water, simmer for about 1 hour, take out the pig liver, cut it into small pieces and set aside, put it in the wok Add the washed and chopped ginger and green onions to vegetable oil, fry for a while, then add the pork liver slices, mix the soy sauce, white sugar, and cooking wine, add an appropriate amount of original soup, use wet starch to collect a transparent soup, and pour it in Add pork liver slices and stir evenly.

3. Vegetables that must be eaten during the Beginning of Summer

1. Peas

On the day of Beginning of Summer, pea rice is eaten. Because shelled peas are shaped like eyes, and eye diseases were common among ancient people, in order to eliminate eye diseases, people ate peas to pray that their eyes would be as clear as fresh peas throughout the year and that they would be free from disease and disaster. Each 100 grams of peas contains 10.49 mg of vitamin B, which is three times as much as edamame. Sweating in hot weather will lose part of the B vitamins, so peas are very suitable for summer consumption.

2. Garlic seedlings

With the advancement of agricultural science and technology, garlic seedlings can be seen all year round, but in a sense, this is the time when garlic seedlings are "in season". The nutrition of garlic seedlings It goes without saying that the value is high. Eating garlic sprouts can effectively prevent influenza, enteritis and other diseases caused by environmental pollution. Garlic sprouts have a certain protective effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, can prevent the formation of blood clots, and can also protect the liver.

3. Bamboo shoots

At the beginning of summer, there is a custom of eating "foot bone bamboo shoots".

"Jiaogu bamboo shoots" are actually wild mountain bamboo shoots. There are many types of wild mountain bamboo shoots, such as black bamboo shoots and arrow bamboo shoots. People buy the bamboo shoots, peel them and crack them into flat shapes, and then cut them into small sections of about 4 cm. See It looks like the shape of a foot bone. At the beginning of summer solstice, when the busy farming season begins, people eat "foot bone bamboo shoots" to symbolize "foot bone health" (good health).