Foods suitable for eating during the Great Cold season, commonly used medicinal foods during the Great Cold season

During the Great Cold, everyone must pay attention to their diet, so what is the best thing for us to eat? Let's take a look at the commonly used medicinal diets during the Great Cold!

Introduction

The Great Cold is the coldest time of the year. What should we eat during the Great Cold? Everyone knows that the Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms, and the Spring Festival falls during the Great Cold in many years. In fact, as long as people arrange their lives and adjust their diet according to the weather characteristics and know what to eat during the Great Cold, they can avoid harm and strengthen their physical fitness, thus happily spending the Spring Festival.

Yam and black sesame paste

: 15g yam, 150g black sesame, 60g polished rice, 200g fresh milk, 100g rock sugar, 6g rose sugar. Soak the polished rice in water for 1 hour, remove and drain. Cut the yam into small pieces. Wash and dry the black sesame, stir-fry until fragrant, add fresh milk and water, mix well, grind into pulp, and filter out the pulp. Add appropriate amount of water to the pot, add rock sugar, boil over high heat, pour the pulp into the pot and stir well with the rock sugar, add rose sugar, stir while cooking until it becomes a paste, and it is ready when cooked. As a snack, twice a day. It has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidneys.

Polygala and Jujube Seed Porridge

: 10g Polygala root, 10g Ziziphus jujuba seeds, 50g Japonica rice. Wash Polygala root, Ziziphus jujuba seeds, and Japonica rice, put Japonica rice into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, then add Polygala root and Ziziphus jujuba seeds, and simmer over low heat until the porridge is cooked. Take it before going to bed at night. It has the effect of nourishing yin, blood, and calming the mind.

Goji Berry Chicken Soup

: Half a chicken, 15 grams of wolfberry, 30 grams of Chinese yam, 15 grams of ginger slices, and appropriate amount of refined salt. Wash the chicken, cut it into pieces, pour it into a pot of boiling water and blanch it to remove the fishy smell, then put the chicken pieces into a casserole, add Chinese yam, wolfberry, ginger slices and appropriate amount of boiling water, cook over low heat until the meat is tender and the soup is fragrant, add salt, and boil it again. It can be eaten as a main meal. It has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidneys, warming the middle and replenishing qi.

Yam and Lamb Soup

: 500g mutton, 50g Chinese yam, 30g scallion, 15g ginger, 6g pepper, 220g rice wine, 3g salt. Remove the fascia from the mutton, wash it, make a few cuts, and then put it into a boiling water casserole to remove the blood. Wash the scallion and ginger, cut the scallion into sections, and smash the ginger. After the Chinese yam is soaked in water, cut it into 2 cm thick slices, put the mutton and Chinese yam into the casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil it over high heat, skim off the foam, add scallion, ginger, pepper, and rice wine, and stew it over low heat until the mutton is crispy and rotten, remove the mutton and let it cool. Cut the mutton into slices and pour it into a bowl. It can be eaten as a side dish. It has the effect of nourishing the spleen and kidneys and warming the middle and lower parts.

Ginger Beef Rice

: 100g fresh beef, 5g ginger juice, 500g polished rice, appropriate amount of soy sauce and peanut oil. Chop the fresh beef into minced meat, put it on a plate, then add ginger juice, mix well, add some soy sauce and peanut oil and mix again. Wash the polished rice and put it in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, cook as usual, when the water in the pot is about to dry, pour the beef into the rice, steam for about 15 minutes, and wait until the beef is cooked. It is a staple food and can be eaten at will. It has the effect of invigorating qi and stomach, replenishing deficiency and reducing swelling.

Spleen-strengthening and dampness-removing porridge

: 15g lentils, 10g Poria, 2 kapok flowers, 5g red beans, 5g Sichuan radix, 150g polished rice. Put the first 5 ingredients into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil for 30 minutes, remove the residue and keep the juice, add the washed polished rice, boil over high heat, and then simmer over low heat until the rice is rotten and the porridge is ready. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, removing dampness and stagnation.