In July, baking and showers alternated, and the summer heat quietly followed the heat wave after the rain. After the light summer, the rainfall increased, and most areas began to enter the hottest dog days of the year. In the weather with alternating rain and heat, people are prone to fidgety, listlessness, boredom and loss of appetite, and mental and physical discomfort. Holding a cold drink and hiding in an air-conditioned room is the most comfortable impression in summer and the most unhealthy way to cool off.

recipe for relieving summer heat

recipe 1 osmanthus honey lotus root

recommended index: ★★★☆☆

recommended reason: the three treasures of diet in summer heat are "Monopterus albus, honey lotus root and mung bean sprouts". Eating lotus root is a folk custom. Lotus root contains a lot of carbohydrates, minerals such as potassium, calcium, phosphorus and iron, and various vitamins, which can supplement the energy needed by the body and a lot of nutrients lost by sweating.

ingredients preparation: lotus root, glutinous rice, medlar, sweet-scented osmanthus and rock sugar.

Practice:

1. Soak glutinous rice one night in advance, which will cook faster. If you use a pressure cooker, you can only soak it for one or two hours;

2. Peel and wash the lotus root, cut it 3cm at one end, rinse the lotus root hole, and fill the lotus root hole with sticky rice with chopsticks until it is 8% full. The sticky rice will swell when it matures.

3. Close the lotus root cover and the lotus root body and fix it with a toothpick. Fill the pot with water, add lotus root and rock sugar, and boil over high heat for two hours. Add Lycium barbarum and osmanthus fragrans ten minutes before taking out the pot;

3. Let the lotus root cool and slice it to eat, or fry it until it is golden on both sides.

Recipe 2 Lycium barbarum honeysuckle dew

Recommended index: ★★★★☆

Recommended reason: Honeysuckle, which is sweet and cool, mild and not harmful to the stomach, is a good medicine for clearing away heat and detoxifying in summer, and its mild medicinal properties make it very suitable for daily health care and can be added to summer drinks such as mung bean soup. Lycium barbarum honeysuckle dew is simple in practice, but it can relieve summer heat and detoxify. As a cool dessert in the afternoon, it helps to regulate the body from the inside out and avoid getting hot and angry.

ingredients preparation: dried honeysuckle, turtle paste powder, medlar and rock sugar.

Practice:

1. Heat a pot of water, pour in hot water according to the ratio of Guiling paste powder to clear water on the packaging bag of Guiling paste, and stir quickly and evenly;

2. Take a deep flat-bottomed dish, pour the paste of Guiling paste into it, and put it in a cool and ventilated place until it cools and solidifies;

3. Put Lycium barbarum, honeysuckle tea and a few crystal sugar into a pot, soak it in hot water, cool it and put it in the refrigerator for cold storage;

4. cut the guiling paste into pieces after solidification, and mix the cold-stored honeysuckle tea and guiling paste.

Recipe 3 Nourishing Spleen and Runfei Sishen Decoction

Recommended index: ★★★★★

Recommended reason: Sishen refers to lotus seeds, Euryales euryales, Poria cocos and Chinese yam. The ingredients are simple, but the four dietotherapy herbs complement each other, which has many benefits, such as caring skin, clearing fire and diuresis, and can be cooked together with pig intestines and pig bellies. This is also a well-known health and beauty soup recommended by many stars in Taiwan Province.

ingredients: dried sishen materials (lotus seeds, euryales seeds, poria cocos and yam), 1 package of Lycium barbarum, 1g of coix seed, and 1 pig intestine.

auxiliary materials: rice wine and salt.

Method:

1. Wash the pig's small intestine.

2. Put the soaked Sishen dry ingredients, Coix seed rice and pig small intestine into a saucepan and add water to cook for 2 hours.

3. Add Lycium barbarum, rice wine and proper amount of salt before taking out the pot.

a must for creating summer food

product name: ACA vertical agitator

recommended reason: ACA North American electric AF-B2G vertical agitator is fashionable in overall design, with grass green and white, bright colors and smooth lines. It can add colorful colors to the home environment and highlight the fashionable kitchen culture. This machine consists of two parts: the main machine and the mixing cup. There is an obvious logo of North American electrical appliances on the body of the agitator. The colored cups made of crystal material make this blender look fuller and more shiny.

according to the steps, put the sliced cucumber into a mixing cup, and then add water. Then cover the lid and press the button of the blender until the mixing is over. This process takes 3 seconds. Then a cup of delicious cucumber juice is ready. During the mixing process, the noise generated by this vertical mixer is 9.5db, which is still a little loud. When mixing, the maximum power of this machine is 151w W. According to the time of mixing juice for less than 1 minute each time, the power consumption of this machine is not too large.

Product name: Pentium rice cooker

Recommended reason: By studying the cooking process of rice and the nutrition release law of rice grains, a unique six-stage intelligent cooking program was developed, in which each rice grain can fully absorb water and better lock the nutrition of rice, and the cooked rice is Q-shaped and sweet. Three-dimensional heating, the heat comes out from the top cover, the side wall and the bottom of the pot, forming an all-round three-dimensional heating space, which makes the rice heated more evenly, absorbs more water and cooks the rice firewood. It is the first delicious pressure regulating valve to freely regulate the pressure according to different cooking modes such as rice, soup/porridge and cooking.