Winter Solstice

What to eat to supplement the body? Three kinds of ingredients and recipes for the winter solstice in 20021year.

There are many foods suitable for tonic in the winter solstice, which can be roughly divided into three categories: flat tonic, warm tonic and nourishing. Generally speaking, warm tonic should use hot food for qi deficiency; Nourishing should use cold food for blood deficiency; If there is no deficiency of qi and blood, it is advisable to use flat food, which is called flat supplement.

Pingbu: pork and its liver, kidney and lungs, eggs, hens, ducks and tofu, celery, radishes, longan, mushrooms, honey and bee milk.

Nourishing: soft-shelled turtle, crucian carp, mussel, kelp, jellyfish, pear, orange, apple, banana, lily, sesame, mung bean, red bean, pea, day lily, tremella, bird's nest and so on.

Warm tonic: mutton, beef and their internal organs, dog meat, rooster, goose, sea cucumber, squid, venison, jujube, walnut, lentil, potato and taro, onion, garlic, leek, ginger, broad bean, wheat flour, wine and so on.

Health stickers: besides paying attention to the selection of food, winter solstice tonic should also pay attention to cooking techniques: nourishing food should be stewed, steamed or simmered in soup, with light taste; Warm tonic food should be braised or marinated in soy sauce, which has a strong taste; Pingbu food can be used both ways, and its taste is mainly peaceful.

Recipe recommendation:

Stewed radish with mutton

Ingredients: 500 grams of white radish, 250 grams of mutton, ginger, cooking wine and salt.

Practice: Wash the white radish and mutton and cut them into pieces for later use. Put a proper amount of water into the pot to put the mutton into the pot. Take out the mutton 5 or 6 minutes after the pot is boiled, pour out the water, change the water again, add the mutton, ginger, cooking wine and salt, stew until it is half cooked, and put the white radish into the pot until it is cooked.

Efficacy: benefiting qi and tonifying deficiency, warming the middle and warming the lower. It is more suitable for those with weak waist and knees, drowsiness and fatigue, impotence due to kidney deficiency and deficiency of spleen and stomach.

Stewed black-bone chicken with gastrodia elata

Ingredients: Black-bone chicken 1 piece (about 750g), Gastrodia elata 25g, Chuanxiong rhizome and Poria cocos each 10g, ginger slices 5g, cooking wine 10g, proper amount of refined salt and a little parsley.

Practice: black-bone chicken is put into cold water, boiled and blanched to remove blood foam; Wash the traditional Chinese medicine, put it into the belly of the chicken and sew the mouth with thread. Put the black-bone chicken in a casserole, add ginger slices, cooking wine and appropriate amount of water, bring it to a boil, simmer for about 1 hour, add refined salt, stew for about 20 minutes until the materials are cooked, and sprinkle with coriander segments.

Efficacy: Black-bone chicken has the effects of relaxing channels, promoting blood circulation and regulating endocrine, which is of great benefit to elderly women. Gastrodia elata, Ligusticum Chuanxiong and Poria cocos all have auxiliary treatment effects on dizziness, headache and insomnia due to neurasthenia, which can calm the liver, calm the wind and relieve pain, nourish and calm the nerves, and cooperate with black-bone chicken to make up the deficiency.