The Great Cold Festival has arrived, and the "Teaching Time Tongkao Tianshi" says: "The reverse pole of the cold is called the great cold." "The cold is the coldest time and indicates that winter is coming to an end. At this time, the human body is also more and more prone to cold and damage to yang qi. Therefore, the great cold should follow the principle of raising yin and warm yang, and seize the opportunity to raise a good body and welcome the arrival of spring. The following 6 kinds of "Yang Yang" foods should be eaten more, which is conducive to generating Yang Qi, warm hands and feet and not afraid of cold, helping the smooth transition from the cold to Lichun.
brown sugar
As the saying goes: "Women can not be sugar-free for 100 days", referring to brown sugar, brown sugar contains rich substances, containing vitamin B and inorganic salt iron, and has the effect of warming the sun and replenishing the deficiency. Usually use more brown sugar to boil water, flush water to drink, this time teach everyone to make a brown sugar fried rice cake, symbolizing the auspicious meaning of "sticky high" (annual high).
Brown sugar fried rice cake
【Directions】:
1: Add warm water to glutinous rice flour, stir with chopsticks first, and then knead into a dough. Then make the glutinous rice balls into rectangular pies, or shapes you like.
2, add oil in the pan, put in the rice cake piece by piece spread, fry one side to turn over, use low heat to fry on both sides until slightly charred, the rice cake begins to soften;
3, brown sugar with a small amount of boiling water, poured into the fried rice cake, so that the syrup is evenly wrapped on the rice cake, until the brown sugar juice is slightly viscous, you can open the fire to collect the juice, plate, sprinkle a little osmanthus on it.
ginger
Ginger is not only an ordinary seasoning with a spicy taste, but also a good ingredient for tonifying yang qi, which is used to gently the spleen and stomach, remove the cold in the body, and restore the spirit. Generally, it is best to eat in the morning, and it is not recommended to eat it at night.
Ginger stewed duck
【Ingredients】: Ginger to taste, duck 1/2, watercress paste 1 tablespoon, cooking wine 2 spoons, rock sugar 10 grams, light soy sauce 3 spoons, green and red pepper to taste,
1, fresh ginger slices for later, use more, green and red pepper cut into sections; duck chop, add ginger, cooking wine blanched water to fishy, wash and fish out;
2: Put oil in the pot, add some ginger slices and fry until the duck is drained and fry until the duck pieces start to produce oil, the surface is golden brown;
3: Pour in the ginger and stir-fry evenly, then add cooking wine, bean paste, soy sauce and rock sugar to taste evenly;
4: Pour in boiling water over the duck, cover and turn to low heat and simmer for 50 minutes, turn the heat to collect the juice before coming out of the pot, and put the pepper segments to stir evenly.
Beef
In ancient times, there was a saying that "beef tonifies qi, and the work is the same as astragalus", beef is rich in nutrition and is the best nourishing ingredient for many weak people. Eating beef in winter can just promote the yang in the human body and play a role in keeping warm.
Beef stew with radish
【Ingredients】: Beef to taste, white radish to taste, ginger and garlic to taste, large ingredients (star anise, fragrant leaves, grass fruits, cinnamon) appropriate amount, light soy sauce 2 spoons, dark soy sauce 1 spoon, salt 1 tsp, sugar 1 tsp, cooking wine appropriate amount,
1: Wash and cut the beef tendon meat into pieces, peel the white radish and cut into pieces, wash and cut the green onions into small pieces for later;
2: Put the beef in cold water, add ginger slices, 1 spoon of cooking wine, bring to a boil over high heat and skim off the foam with a spoon, and then fish out for later;
3: Heat the oil in a hot pot, add the prepared spices and stir-fry to make the aroma, then sauté the beef for a while;
4: Pour in soy sauce, soy sauce, cooking wine and sugar and continue to stir-fry. Then heat the water in the pot, bring to a boil on high heat, then reduce the heat and simmer for 1 hour.
5: It is best to add the chopped radish pieces, simmer for half an hour, and add the right amount of salt and chicken essence before coming out of the pot.
Oysters
Cold winter is the most fertile time for oysters, oysters are high in protein and low in fat, commonly known as "milk in the sea", containing 8 kinds of amino acids necessary for the human body, especially all foods are the most abundant in zinc, often eating can help the body's yang rise.
Ginger and shallots baked with oysters
【Ingredients】: Oysters 500g, 4 shallot heads, ginger garlic appropriate amount, green onion appropriate amount, light soy sauce 2 tbsp, dark soy sauce 1 spoon, salt 1 small spoon, starch 2 small spoons
1, oysters washed, with starch can be the oyster body black things washed off, and finally add cooking wine to remove the fishy taste;
2: Heat the oil pot, sauté the chives white, shallots and ginger, then add the oysters, spread out as much as possible, to avoid the oysters stacked together;
3, put in the soy sauce, soy sauce and salt, cover the lid and bake for 2 minutes to cook thoroughly,
4: Then turn off the heat and simmer at the remaining temperature in the pot for 1 minute, add the shallots before cooking. Baked too long oysters will be too old to affect the taste.
millet
Millet is also often said to be corn, from ancient times to the present is a precious tonic, millet is rich in vitamins and amino acids, coupled with a long time of warm food, not only to meet the nutritional needs, but also to strengthen the spleen and stomach, yang qi.
Millet balls
【Ingredients】: Pork to taste, millet to taste, carrots to taste, oyster sauce 1 spoon, soy sauce 1 spoon, sugar 1 tsp, salt 1 tsp, starch 2 teaspoons, green onion to taste
1. Soak the millet 2 hours in advance after cleaning, and drain the water when you use it. Pork is beaten into minced meat with a meat grinder, and carrots are peeled and cut into small cubes;
3, put the two together, add soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, sugar, green onion and starch, stir in one direction, stir the meat filling until there is resistance;
4, then rub the meat filling into balls, the size is arbitrary, put into the millet to roll a few times, so that the meatballs are evenly wrapped in millet, and then slightly pinched tighter;
5, steaming pot to boil the water, steaming for 25-30 minutes, steaming time should be determined according to the size of meatballs.
spinach
Spinach is a green leafy vegetable with high potassium and low sodium, and has always been a healthy food in people's hearts. It is rich in vitamin C, chlorophyll, folic acid and iron, and the consumption of spinach can play a role in nourishing the yang and nourishing the liver.
Spinach in ginger sauce
【Ingredients】: Spinach to taste, ginger to taste, 2 spoons of light soy sauce, 1 spoon of sesame oil, 1 spoon of vinegar, a little salt, a little sugar,
1, spinach to the root washed, cut into two pieces, after the water boiled, add a little salt and oil, put in the spinach and blanch, 1 to 2 minutes can be, basically after the discoloration is almost.
2. Fish out the boiled spinach, quickly cool down with cold boiling water, and then squeeze the spinach dry by hand;
3: Scrape off the ginger skin and use a knife to chop into fine minced ginger. Put a little oil in a hot pan, add minced ginger on low heat, simmer until golden brown, turn off the heat, add soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, sesame oil and a small amount of boiling water to make a sauce;
4: Put the spinach in a small bowl to compact and set, then buckle upside down on the plate and drizzle with the sauce.