It is the seed of Nelumbo nucifera. When the fruit is ripe in autumn, cut the lotus, take out the fruit and peel it off. After drying, the red lotus seeds become white lotus seeds. Here are some white lotus seeds:
1, tremella lotus seed soup
Ingredients: 50 grams of lotus seeds, 30 grams of tremella, and 0/00 grams of rock sugar/kloc.
Practice: Lotus seeds and tremella are soaked in water and picked up. Put lotus seeds, tremella and crystal sugar into a bowl, add appropriate amount of water, put them in a steamer and steam them with high fire 1 hour.
Tremella fuciformis has the functions of consolidating semen, moistening intestine, benefiting stomach, invigorating qi, promoting blood circulation, strengthening heart, strengthening body, strengthening brain, refreshing mind, caring skin, rejuvenating skin and prolonging life. Can be used for treating cough due to lung heat, dry cough due to lung dryness, irregular menstruation, gastritis, constipation, etc.
2, diced chicken with lotus seeds
Ingredients: chicken breast, oil, eggs, white lotus seeds, carrots, green beans, white sugar, cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, onion ginger and starch.
Practice: blanch the lotus seeds with hot water. Cut the chicken breast into diagonal dices. Slice onion and ginger, put diced chicken into a bowl, add salt, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, egg white and starch and mix well for sizing. Put the onion and ginger in another bowl, add cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate and water starch to make juice for later use. Stir-fried diced chicken in oil. Add diced carrots, green beans and lotus seeds when they are 80% ripe, stir-fry until the diced chicken is cooked, and quickly pour the bowl juice into the pot and stir-fry until the juice is evenly hung on the raw materials.
Efficacy: Lotus seeds strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, benefit the kidney and converge, nourish the heart and soothe the nerves.
3. papaya lotus lily soup
Ingredients: papaya, lotus seeds, lily, red dates, tremella, milk, rock sugar.
Practice: wash the raw materials and cut them into small pieces, soak the lotus seeds and steam them, and soak the tremella and tear them into small pieces. Boil the raw materials in boiling water for half an hour, add milk and papaya, and finally add lily. Put it in a soup plate and decorate it with mint leaves.
Efficacy: papaya nourishes yin and stomach, which is rich in it; Lotus seed calms the mind and calms the nerves, which is helpful for sleep, while lily calms the mind and removes annoyance. This kind of soup is sweet and delicious, which is very helpful to eliminate the greasy after the holiday, and has the effects of clearing away heat and eliminating fatigue.
4. Stewed lean meat with lily and lotus seeds
Ingredients: 200g of lotus seed, 20g of lily and 20g of lean meat.
Practice: Soak the lotus seeds and lilies in water, put them into the pot together with the washed lean meat, and stew until cooked.
Efficacy: This stew has the effects of clearing away lung dryness and relieving cough. Very suitable for friends and use.
5. Lotus porridge
Ingredients: lotus seeds, rock sugar and japonica rice.
Practice: After the lotus seeds swell, wipe off the surface with a brush in water, take out the lotus plumule, rinse it, put it in a pot, add water and cook it thoroughly on the fire for later use. Boil japonica rice together, wash it, put it in a pot and add water to cook it into porridge. After the porridge is cooked, add lotus seeds, add rock sugar or white sugar and stew it a little.
Efficacy: Lotus seeds have extremely high nutritional value, and have the effects of clearing away heart fire, strengthening spleen, stopping diarrhea, nourishing heart, calming nerves, improving eyesight, invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, stopping diarrhea, arresting spermatorrhea, nourishing kidney and stopping leukorrhagia, and nourishing vitality.
Let's continue to introduce some white lotus seeds to you. Interested friends may wish to see their practices.
6, rock sugar lotus seeds
Ingredients: lotus seeds, rock sugar.
Practice: lotus seeds are soaked and absorbed, steamed in a rock sugar cage, and then stewed and eaten.
Efficacy: Lotus seeds are flat and sweet, which is beneficial to stopping diarrhea, consolidating essence and calming the heart.
7. Lotus seed and jujube soup
Ingredients: lotus seeds, lotus roots, red dates and rock sugar.
Practice: Lotus root is peeled and cut into pieces in two sections, washed and drained. 4 pairs of red dates and 2 pairs of lotus seeds are soaked in water until soft, and then picked up. Cook lotus root, red dates, lotus seeds and crystal sugar for 1.5 hours until the ingredients become soft and transparent.
Efficacy: It can nourish blood and moisten skin, and is a tonic food for long-term fatigue and mental consumption.
Nutritional components of lotus seeds
White lotus seed is rich in starch, protein and raffinose, which is a good medicinal tonic. The content of carbohydrates in lotus seeds is 62%, and that in protein is as high as 16%. The contents of calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B2 and carotene are also quite rich.
Li Shizhen's ""said that lotus seeds "have a heart-to-heart relationship with the kidney, thick intestines and stomach, strong cinnamon, strong bones and muscles, benefit deficiency, benefit eyes and ears, dispel cold and dampness, stop spleen leakage for a long time, be red and white, and the woman will drop blood." Lotus seeds are "mashed and eaten as porridge with rice, which is light and healthy."
Lotus is not only nutritious, but also the treasure of the whole body. Lotus seed is the main harvest of planting lotus. Lotus seed (lotus heart), lotus whisker (lotus leaf), lotus node, lotus leaf, lotus root, flower palm, lotus flower and lotus root (lotus root whip) can all be used as medicine. Lotus, lotus root and lotus pie can all be used as delicacies on the table.
The following introduces the common lotus seed medicated diet.
1, palpitation and insomnia: lotus seed 10g, longan pulp 15g, lily 12g, Schisandra chinensis 9g, decocted in water every night.
2, diarrhea: 30 grams of lotus seeds (denuded), 30 grams of Euryales, 40 grams of Coix seed, millet 150 grams, add water to cook porridge.
3, kidney deficiency nocturnal emission: Lotus seed, Euryale ferox each10g, yam 20g, tremella 6g, decocted in water, and a small amount of sugar can be added when eating.
4, bleeding profusely, excessive leucorrhea: 60 grams of lotus seeds, 20 dried lychees, washed and put into a casserole with 500 ml of water, steamed in a cage.
In addition, it should be noted that lotus plumule should not be eaten with crabs and turtles, otherwise some adverse reactions may occur: people with colds, constipation and hemorrhoids should not take it.