Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, I buy these 5 ingredients. They are in line with the season, cheap and good-quality, and highly nutritious. Eating them often is good for your health.

Time flies so fast. In the blink of an eye, the annual Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching again. The streets and alleys are filled with a cheerful festive atmosphere, and red lanterns celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival are hung at the entrances of supermarkets. , the Mid-Autumn Festival delicacies in it are even more dizzying. Everyone knows to eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but in addition to mooncakes, these five delicacies can also help you spend the full moon. They are all seasonal fruits and vegetables of the season, fresh and cheap. I call them the five treasures of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival , I will buy some of these 5 ingredients every time I encounter them. They are in line with the season, nutritious and delicious. Eating them regularly is good for your body and you can spend the autumn and winter healthily.

The first delicacy, sweet potato.

Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sweet potatoes are ripe and dug up. Strings of sweet potatoes of different sizes are dug out of the ground. The larger ones are eaten in soup, and the smaller ones are eaten boiled or roasted. They are delicious. , can make people cry. Sweet potatoes are not only nutritionally balanced, but also have little-known effects on preventing sub-health, weight loss, and bodybuilding. As early as the Ming Dynasty, physician Li Shizhen once said: "People in the sea live longer because they eat sweet potatoes." This means that eating more sweet potatoes can lead to health and longevity and is of great benefit to the body.

Recommended dishes: Red Dates, Sweet Potatoes and Ginger Soup

Required ingredients: sweet potatoes, red dates, ginger, rock sugar.

Operation steps: 1. Wash the sweet potatoes, peel and cut them into pieces, wash the red dates, rinse and slice the ginger.

2 Put all the ingredients into a soup pot, add water to cover the ingredients, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer until the sweet potatoes are soft.

3 Finally, add rock sugar to taste according to everyone's taste, cook until melted, and then take it out of the pot.

The second delicacy, taro.

Taro is also a food that matures around the Mid-Autumn Festival. It has a delicate taste, sweet and waxy texture. It can be used as both food and vegetable. It is a tonic suitable for all ages. Among the minerals contained in taro, the fluorine content is relatively high. Regular consumption of taro has the benefits of cleaning teeth, preventing cavities, and protecting teeth. Taro also contains a mucus protein. After this mucus protein is absorbed by the human body, it can produce an immunoglobulin, which can improve the body's resistance and prevent the body from being invaded by viruses.

Recommended dish: Taro steamed pork ribs

Ingredients required: taro, pork ribs, salt, chives, ginger, cooking wine, light soy sauce, dried chili peppers.

Operation steps: 1. Wash the ribs first, drain them, add seasonings and marinate for a while to enhance the flavor.

2 Then put on gloves, clean the taro, then cut it into the shape you like, place it on the bottom of the plate, and cover it with the marinated ribs.

3 Then put the plate into the steamer to steam until cooked, and it is ready to be served.

The third delicacy, chestnut.

Recommended dish: steamed chestnut

Required ingredients: chestnut, honey.

Operation steps: 1. Clean the chestnuts first, then place them in a ventilated place to dry the surface moisture, and then score the surface of the chestnuts so that they can be peeled easily.

2 Then put the chestnuts on the steamer and steam them over high heat. After about 10 minutes of steaming, the mouths of the chestnuts will open.

3. Open the lid, brush with the prepared honey, and steam for another 10 minutes. The sweet and soft chestnuts are ready to be cooked.

The fourth delicacy is pumpkin.

Pumpkins can also be harvested this season. Fully mature pumpkins have a thin layer of white frost on the surface. When we were children, the harvested pumpkins often filled the whole house. Pumpkin is a treasure, and its whole body can be used as medicine. It not only satisfies hunger, but also has certain therapeutic value. It has the effects of promoting growth and development, diuresis and defecation, and protecting the gastric mucosa.

Recommended dish: Pumpkin and millet porridge

Required ingredients: pumpkin, millet, wolfberry, rock sugar.

Operation steps: 1. Wash the millet and soak it for a while, then wash the pumpkin, peel it and cut it into pieces.

2 Put the pumpkin pieces into the pot, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, then add the soaked millet, continue to boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer until the pumpkin is soft and rotten.

3 Add rock sugar to taste before serving, cook until the rock sugar melts, then serve. Garnish with wolfberry on top, it looks good and delicious.

The fifth delicacy, peanuts.

Peanuts are also a unique product of this season. Although peanuts are sold all year round, peanuts are undoubtedly the freshest. Autumn nourishment focuses on moisturizing the lungs, and peanuts are rich in fat. Oil can moisten the lungs and relieve cough.

Eating peanuts regularly can also promote children's brain development, improve children's intelligence, enhance the brain's memory function, activate brain cells in middle-aged and elderly people, delay premature aging of the human body, and have anti-aging benefits.

Recommended dish: boiled peanuts

Ingredients required: fresh peanuts with skin, salt, pepper, aniseed, cinnamon, dried chili.

Operation steps: 1. Soak the peanuts for a while, then wash off the soil on the surface of the peanuts, and then pinch the head of the peanuts to make an opening.

2 Then put the peanuts into the pot, add water, and then add all the seasonings. After boiling over high heat, continue to simmer for 10 minutes, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 20 minutes, then turn off the heat.

3. After turning off the heat, do not rush out of the pot. Just leave it like this and let the peanuts soak in the soup and cool naturally. This will make the cooked peanuts more delicious.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. Eat these 5 Mid-Autumn treasures regularly. They are affordable and nutritious, so you can spend the autumn and winter in good health!

The above 5 treasures are the delicacies I recommend to everyone to eat before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Do you have any other good delicacies to recommend? Everyone is welcome to leave a message in the comment area and share it with Aixi. My cooking skills are limited, so please give me your advice.

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