Therefore, taking care of the elderly should be the same as taking care of children, not only with careful company at ordinary times, but also with a reasonable diet.
In the "Grandma's Recipe" column group, in the nearly 200 days of shooting, they are committed to finding rural specialties. Among them, six kinds of health foods suitable for the elderly were found. I hope the elderly can eat healthier and be healthier!
Steamed meat with salted duck eggs
Duck eggs are rich in nutrients, including amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, iron, trace elements and vitamins. , easily absorbed by the human body, suitable for all ages.
If you are worried that the salted duck eggs bought outside will add various additives, then the safest way is to pickle them yourself. However, what ingredients are the fresh and delicious salted duck eggs perfectly combined with?
Steamed meat pie with salted duck eggs in Shangrao, Jiangxi, is very simple. Slice and chop pork, and mix ginger and minced meat evenly. Wash the duck eggs, put them in the yellow mud, put them on the patties, and steam for 15 minutes.
Compared with eggs, duck eggs have a heavier smell, which can be diluted after being pickled with salt water. In taste, salted duck eggs are also more tender and delicious.
Yam wubao decoction
These dishes are characterized by tenderness and sweetness. There is a unique local dessert, which is healthy and delicious. This is the secret of local health and longevity. This is sweet soup with Wubaoshan medicine.
The dishes contain various healthy ingredients, such as sweet-scented osmanthus balls, lotus root starch balls, medlar and fermented grains. After simple stewing, a variety of flavors are blended together, making it a unique and authentic Taizhou cuisine.
Yam is called the medicine in food. It can promote digestion of spleen and stomach, relieve weakness of spleen and stomach, regulate blood sugar, prevent blood sugar from rising, and remove cholesterol and fat from blood vessel wall. It can prevent vascular aging, improve human immunity and reduce the occurrence of cancer.
Cut yam into diced water, mix lotus root starch balls, glutinous rice blocks and sweet wine and cook in a pot. Stew peanut butter, yam and longan in turn, and sprinkle with dried medlar to make the stomach sweet and warm.
Fish noodle soup
There is an old saying in Taizhou: There is water in the bag in the morning and water in the skin at night? There must be fish noodle soup in this water.
I don't know when it started. Fish noodle soup has become the "finale" of Taizhou morning tea. A bowl of thick fish noodle soup was served, full of frankincense, refreshing but not greasy. Take a sip and feel satisfied.
Fish noodle soup is usually made of eel and crucian carp, or it can be replaced by snakehead, which is fried first and then boiled into pure white soup; Noodles are usually hand-processed, soft and firm, and fish soup is a perfect match.
The snakehead is fresh, tender and delicious, with high nutritional value. Suitable for people with weak body, hypoproteinemia, spleen and stomach weakness and malnutrition. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a precious tonic for the elderly.
Broth ball
In Suichuan, Ji 'an, Jiangxi, meatballs with fresh pork are an essential main course for the New Year's Eve dinner.
Chop pork belly into pieces, mix it with peanut-flavored cold potato chips and onions, then coat it with smooth special potato powder, roll it into meatballs slightly larger than glass balls in the palm of your hand, and cook it into fresh soup. Soft and elastic in taste, thin and sweet to bite, fresh but not greasy.
Just out of the pot, the meatballs in broth are chewy, tender and nutritious like marbles, and have the function of nourishing yin and nourishing the stomach. At the reunion dinner, grandparents can often be seen at home. As soon as they eat the meatballs in their mouths, they will put some in the bowl for the children.
Healthy noodles
Zhejiang Jinyun health noodles, the full name is actually saffron soil refreshing noodles. Because of its long life and good luck, outsiders call it health noodles.
Healthy noodles are the same as noodles cooked at home. First, stir-fry vegetables, shredded pork and eggs until they are about 6% cooked. Add enough water to boil, and then add noodles. Add chopped shallots and pour in lard, which is salty and chewy.
But it has its own unique craft. In traditional noodles, the precious spice saffron is creatively added, which makes noodles have higher nutritional value, smoother and more unique taste and bright color.
The market price of saffron is 60,000 yuan 1 kg, which is recorded in ancient books as follows:
"Eating and drinking is about to happen": the main heart is depressed, and long-term eating makes people happy.
Essentials of product exchange: relieving depression, regulating blood, widening chest and diaphragm, appetizing into diet, nourishing body for a long time, pleasing color and treating typhoid fever.
Outline: activating blood circulation to treat convulsion.
The process of making saffron noodles is an ancient skill you have never seen before. Proofing, stretching and fermenting the dough, performing secondary fermentation on the blank with chopsticks, and finally inserting the chopsticks hung on the blank into the wooden shelf on the door, naturally drying and breaking to obtain the finished product. Unique taste and rich nutrition. So Jinyun can be called? The land of longevity? .