Cook a beautiful soup to welcome the New Year, please accept a daily meal during the holidays

The Spring Festival holiday is approaching, everyone rests every day at home to cook, is there a little lack of recipes? Affiliated Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (Guangzhou Acupuncture Hospital) Li Liming, Director of the Department of Pharmacy of the Affiliated Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (Guangzhou Acupuncture Hospital), Deputy Director of the Department of Endocrinology Zhao Zhixiang, and Director of the Emergency Department Fan Xiaohong, Chinese Medicine Physician, jointly recommended a daily festival of medicinal food, healthy and well-intentioned, to help you show your skills at the family banquet.

Chinese New Year's Eve: Lotus root lotus seed oyster soup

Ingredients: 750 grams of lotus root, 50 grams of lotus seeds, 50 grams of red beans, 1/3 orange peel, 3 red dates, 50 grams of oyster sauce, 1 large urn, 150 grams of pork, 4 slices of ginger. (4-5 servings)

Directions: Wash each object separately. Lotus root is de-knotted and cut into thick pieces; lotus seeds, red beans, tangerine peel, and oyster sauce are soaked; red dates are pitted; and large clams are scraped off impurities. Together with the meat and ginger, add 2500 ml of water (about 10 bowls), boil over low heat and change to simmer for 2 hours, then add salt.

Effect: nourish yin, tonify kidney, improve qi, strengthen spleen

Chinese New Year's Eve night, of course, Cantonese people must have a pot of good soup to sit in! Dr. Zhao Zhixiang recommended this classic Chinese New Year soup - lotus root lotus seed oyster sauce soup.

In fact, Cantonese people don't need to explain much when they hear it. Lotus root and lotus seed take the harmonic sound of "consecutive years", oyster sauce is "good thing", and big lintel is the meaning of "great auspiciousness", which adds up to the meaning of "good things and great benefits for consecutive years".

In addition to the auspicious meaning of this soup, it is also very suitable for the health needs of early spring in the south, because it has the effect of nourishing blood and moisturizing the skin, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and it is suitable for both men and women of all ages.

Chinese medicine believes that in addition to annoying the taste, oyster sauce also has the effect of nourishing the yin and spleen; lotus root nourishes the blood and spleen, lotus seeds nourish the heart and kidneys, and the large urn and the flesh are nourishing and replenishing the marrow, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach. As for the tangerine peel, the Cantonese soup is filled with beans and greasy ingredients, which are all fine strokes, which can make the soup mellow and delicious, and dispel the stagnation.

New Year's Day: Yun'er shiitake mushroom shrimp rice vermicelli rolling dish

Ingredients: 50 grams each of cloud ear and shiitake mushrooms, 100 grams of vermicelli, 70 grams of golden needle vegetables and dried shrimp, 500 grams of shao vegetables, 3 slices of ginger, (3 to 4 servings).

Method: Cloud ear, mushrooms, vermicelli, dried shrimp soaked hair, washed; shao vegetables washed, cut into oil pots and sautéed ginger slices, fried until just cooked, under the cloud ear, shrimp and rice fried for a while, add 1250 ml of water (about 5 bowls), boil over low heat and change to medium heat for a while, roll the vermicelli for a while. Just add salt, sesame oil, and sprinkle a little pepper before drinking.

Suitable for people: stagnant diet

Contraindicated people: spleen and stomach deficiency and cold

According to the custom, on the first day of the New Year, vegetarian, Chinese New Year's Eve mostly stay up late to eat, drink and have fun, and eating vegetarian dishes on the first day of the New Year is also good for the body. The Cantonese people say that Shao cai refers to the Chinese cabbage, that is, the yellow bud white. Yellow bud white in ancient times called "pineapple", Su Shi said "white pineapple like a lamb, out of the soil out of the bear", the Chinese cabbage is like a suckling pig bear paw as delicious, to this day there is still "winter cabbage as beautiful as bamboo shoots" saying. Chinese medicine believes that Chinese cabbage has a sweet taste, non-toxic, has the effect of clearing heat and water, nourishing the stomach and detoxifying, and can be used to treat cough, sore throat and other symptoms. However, the Chinese cabbage eats more or is relatively cold, itself has the symptoms of gas deficiency and stomach cold, stool diarrhea and other symptoms should not eat more, and in the cooking of Chinese cabbage to add more ginger, can make the ingredients more peaceful.

The second day of the New Year: Zhimu stewed quail

Ingredients: 2 quails, 20 grams of red adzuki beans, 10 grams of Zhimu, 10 grams of lotus seeds, 1 date, 3 slices of ginger.

Directions: Wash the quail offal, place in a casserole dish with other ingredients, simmer for 1 hour, add salt to taste.

Effect: Strengthen the spleen and dampness, relieve rheumatic fever paralysis, joint pain.

Contraindications: Knowing the bitter cold of motherhood, it can moisten the slippery intestines, so those with spleen deficiency and loose stool should not take it.

The second day of the Lunar New Year is the day when a married daughter takes her husband and children back to her mother's house to pay respects to the New Year. This day, also known as the opening of the new year, the lunch on this day is called the "new year's dinner". The meal is usually very hearty, taking the meaning of auspiciousness.

Knowing the mother, cold sex, bittersweet taste. Attributed to the lungs, stomach, kidney meridians. It has the effect of clearing heat and diarrhea, moisturizing and drying. In the spring rainy season, this soup has a good auxiliary effect on rheumatic fever, joint redness and swelling and pain.

The third day of the Chinese New Year: Acacia flower pot lean meat

Ingredients: 150 g lean meat, 10 g dried acacia flowers, 5 red dates, 10 g goji berries, 3 slices of ginger

Directions: Wash and slice the lean meat into a casserole dish, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, remove blood foam, add acacia flowers, red dates, goji berries, ginger slices, cook over low heat for half an hour, season and take.

Effect: Depressing qi, calming the spirit, eliminating wind and eyesight.

Contraindications: Caution should be taken in patients with yin deficiency and injury.

The third day of the Chinese New Year is called "Chikou Day", and it is believed that this day is "prone to quarrels", and it is not appropriate to go out to visit the New Year, and it is advisable to gather at home. In fact, after eating and drinking for a few days in a row, everyone should also be tired, stay at home to rest well, sleep lazily, and naturally it is very healthy.

Usually on this day, there are also many people who like to drink a sugar water with their families, sweet and sweet, and the mood will be much better. However, it is time to pay attention to blood sugar after days of eating, so here is a soup to relieve the depression and calm the spirit - acacia flower pot lean meat.

Acacia flowers, sexually flat and sweet, return to the heart, liver meridians, has the effect of relieving depression and calming the spirit, purifying the heart and clearing the purpose.

The fourth day of the Chinese New Year: winter shoot grass mushroom soup

Ingredients: 200 grams of winter shoots, 50 grams of mushrooms, 20 grams of Jinhua ham, 3 green onions, 5 slices of ginger, 2 tablespoons of Shaoxing rice wine (4-5 servings)

method:

1. Cut Jinhua ham into small pieces, then add ginger and green onion and blanch water for later;

2. Peel the winter shoots and cut the hob pieces, blanch them in boiling water for a few minutes to remove the oxalic acid, fish out, wash the mushrooms and cut them into blanched water for later;

3. Add an appropriate amount of water to the casserole, put in Jinhua ham, ginger pieces, green onion segments, an appropriate amount of rice wine on high heat and simmer for half an hour, then add bamboo shoots, grass mushrooms and cook for half an hour, add water and starch to hook, add an appropriate amount of salt before coming out of the pot to eat.

Benefits: Eliminate food stagnation, clear and beneficial.

Suitable for people: the general population can be edible, especially for people with loss of appetite, obesity, diabetes, and constipation.

Contraindicated people: allergic to bamboo shoots, asthma, spleen and stomach deficiency, female menstruation, nephritis, urinary stones should not be consumed.

On the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, also known as "Sheep Day", there is a custom in the north to eat "folding baskets" together on this day. (Folding: A hodgepodge of dishes that have not been touched in a few days.) ）

Entering the stage of eating "folding baskets" also means that it is time to eat lightly, adjust the stomach and intestines, and meet the next work. Eating bamboo shoots can adsorb the oil and fat of the food eaten, reduce the absorption and accumulation of fat by the gastrointestinal mucosa, and help digestion and prevent constipation. Among them, winter shoots strengthen the spleen and nourish the liver, grass mushrooms clear heat, promote bowel movements, and rice wine is healthy and bloody.

The fifth day of the Chinese New Year: Oyster sauce lettuce porridge

Ingredients: 3 oysters, 50 grams of yaozhu, 300 grams of roasted bones, 2 lettuce, 100 grams of japonica rice, 5 slices of ginger;

1. Wash the japonica rice and lettuce, soak the japonica rice for half an hour, chop the lettuce and set aside;

2. After cleaning the oyster sauce and yaozhu, cook the japonica rice with the roasted bones, yaozhu, oyster and ginger, boil and turn to low heat for 1 hour;

3. When the porridge becomes thick and soft, add lettuce and stir well, add an appropriate amount of pepper and salt before coming out of the pot to eat.

Effect: Relieve muscles and remove annoyance, reduce fire and nourish yin.

Suitable for people: weak physique, yin deficiency and internal fever should be used, especially suitable for people with high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular system diseases and other people.

Contraindicated people: people with acute and chronic skin diseases, spleen and stomach deficiency, diarrhea and loose stool should not be consumed.

The fifth day of the Lunar New Year is the day when the people welcome the god of wealth. The harmonic sounds of lettuce and oyster sauce "make money" and "good things" are the most suitable. In addition, oyster sauce clears the liver detoxification, tonifies qi and blood, Yaozhu can not only strengthen the spleen and stomach, but also lower blood pressure, blood lipids, burn bones and clear heat under the fire. Spring Festival holiday is easy to because the diet is not on fire in the throat, this porridge to relieve muscle annoyance, fire and yin, on the false fire rise, throat sore throat, neurasthenia and so on has a good conditioning effect.

New Year 6: Angelica ginger mutton soup

Ingredients: 10-15 grams of angelica, 500 grams of lamb, 10 grams of ginger, salt to taste.

Directions: Cut the lamb into small pieces, blanch the water and put it in a pot with angelica and ginger and add water to simmer, and add the right amount of salt after the lamb is cooked to eat meat.

Effect: This soup is suitable for all ages, especially suitable for people with cold hands and feet in winter, who are afraid of cold, and often drink it in winter to condition the physique to resist the cold.

Contraindications to use: Although angelica diet therapy has always been a highly respected method of blood replenishment and menstruation, it is also necessary to distinguish the situation and use it dialectically, otherwise it is counterproductive. Angelica should not be used in the following cases:

1. Symptoms such as damp heat, abdominal distension, and diarrhea;

2. Bleeding period (menstrual period, collapse);

3. Those who have little blood and yin and are full of fire.

The sixth day of the Lunar New Year is the day when many merchants "open the market", and this day is also the last day of this year's statutory Spring Festival holiday.

Angelica, medicinal sweet, spicy, warm. Angelica is widely used in women's menstrual regulation, qi and blood, intestinal moisturizing, beauty and other aspects, and has a high clinical use rate, so there is a saying of "ten directions and nine returns". The efficacy of different parts of angelica is also different - "returning to the head" to activate blood, "returning" to replenish blood, "returning to the tail" to break the blood, and "all returning" has the effect of replenishing blood with blood. However, angelica can not be overdose, generally 5-15 grams is appropriate, it is best to take according to the constitution according to the doctor's advice.

During the Spring Festival holiday, there is always a meal for the people you care about.

A delicious soup to welcome the New Year, quickly transfer to the "boiled FU" friends ~

Instructor: Director Li Liming of the Department of Pharmacy of the Affiliated Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (Guangzhou Acupuncture Hospital), Deputy Director of chinese Medicine Physician Zhao Zhixiang of the Department of Endocrinology, and Chief Chinese Physician of the Emergency Department Fan Xiaohong

Text/Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter Wu Wanhong, correspondent Wang Wenyu

Photo @ Visual China

Li Jin, editor of Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng