Guangzhou Daily News (All-media reporter Weng Shuxian Correspondent Xian Yongqi, Xu Yongyi) Rib Lotus Root Soup, Crispy Lotus Root Slices, Lotus Root Porridge... In Guangzhou in autumn and winter, with the large number of Nansha lotus roots on the market, the neighbors have added a lot of delicious food to their tables.
Zheng Yanhua, deputy director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Panyu Branch of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, introduced that the cold nature of the lotus root, sweet and cold into the stomach, can quench thirst, disperse the silt and clear the heat, cool blood and stop vomiting. People with a flat spleen and stomach deficiency are afraid to eat raw lotus, and they also avoid eating raw lotus during menstruation. However, after the lotus is cooked, it changes from cool to warm, losing the nature of dissipating stasis and clearing heat, but it increases the effect of strengthening the stomach and spleen, nourishing blood and replenishing deficiency, "Therefore, eating cooked lotus root is more suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach." Zheng Yanhua recommends the following soup and porridge, interested neighbors may wish to try:
1. Mung bean lotus root soup
Ingredients: Take two sections of powdered lotus root, mung beans and rock sugar to taste.
Directions: Soak the mung beans for 3 hours and cook with the lotus root, then add rock sugar and water to the right amount, cook and eat the soup.
Features: Clear heat and nourish the stomach.
2. Lotus root porridge
Ingredients: Take 200 grams of flour root, 50 grams of glutinous rice, a little brown sugar.
Directions: Wash and peel and dice the lotus root, rinse the glutinous rice, put the casserole dish together with the appropriate amount of water, boil on high heat and reduce the heat to cook until the rice soup is thick, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar to taste and eat.
Features: Healthy spleen and antidiarrheal.
Zheng Yanhua reminded that lotus root contains more starch and crude fiber, and cooked lotus root and lotus powder are not suitable for diabetic patients to eat a lot.
Source: Guangzhou Daily