After the summer, the weather gradually becomes hotter.
As the saying goes, "Summer suffers, and wins to make up for it". Soon it will be the small full season, hot summer days, people often have no appetite, easy to upset the fire. During this period, it is necessary to eat some "bitter" vegetables appropriately, which can help clear the heat and reduce the heat and enhance the appetite.
Small full is coming, share 5 courses, suitable for hot days to eat "bitter" vegetables, clear the heat to the fire, try to make it.
Type 1: Bitter melon
Li Shizhen recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that "bitter melon, bitter cold and non-toxic, reduces evil fever, relieves fatigue, and purifies the mind and eyes." Meaning, eating bitter melon has the effect of clearing heat and heat, and going to the purpose of fire.
Recommended Method: [Pickled bitter melon]
1. Prepare the ingredients
Cut off the bitter melon at both ends, break it open, and remove the white gourd inside.
The bitter taste of bitter melon basically originates from the urn, and the cleaner it is, the lower the bitterness.
After processing, cut the knife into slices and soak them in water. Then rinse a few more times, control the moisture, add a few spoonfuls of sugar, mix well, and marinate for 20 minutes.
2. Prepare the marinade water
A handful of pickled peppers, squeezed out of the seeds with the back of a knife, and cut into segments with an oblique knife. A handful of wild mountain peppers, one broken and two open, good taste.
Cut some ginger slices and garlic slices and set aside. Pour a little more white vinegar into the bowl, add three spoonfuls of sugar, half a spoonful of salt, two spoonfuls of honey, stir for a while, and dissolve the sugar and honey.
Then pour in the chopped head and mix well.
3. Marinate the bitter melon
Marinate for 20 minutes and rinse again with water. Then remove and squeeze out the water so that it tastes good. Pour the marinade into a piece of bitter melon and mix well.
Seal plastic wrap and refrigerate for three hours. It had been marinated for three hours, and the juice had been almost fully absorbed. Add a little red pepper shreds, grab a few times, and put the plate on the tube.
The cold, refreshing and appetizing pickled bitter melon is ready.
Type 2: Bitter Chrysanthemum
Bitter vegetables have a slight bitter taste, so they have the effect of clearing heat and relieving heat, replenishing water and removing fire, etc., and are good food products for clearing heat and removing fire.
1. Prepare the ingredients
We first washed the bitter chrysanthemums and then controlled the moisture.
First soak in a pot, soak off the residual pesticides in the bitter chrysanthemum, and then put it in the pot, it is best to rinse it 2 times with cool water, and eat it with confidence.
2. Adjust the sauce
Pat the garlic flat and chop into small pieces, pour the minced garlic into the pot, add 2 grams of salt, then pour in soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, sesame oil, chili red oil, and stir well with a spoon.
After stirring the seasonings well, pour in the bitter chrysanthemum, use chopsticks to turn it over, and let the seasoning evenly stick to the bitter chrysanthemum. Not on the table.
It is very simple, clear the heat and remove the fire and also appetize and relieve the grease.
The third kind: oil wheat vegetables
The bitterness of oil wheat vegetables is lighter than that of bitter melon. Contains a large number of nutrients, is the top of the vegetables, dry and moist lungs, so it is called "anchovy".
Recommended method: [garlic oil wheat dish]
1. Prepare the ingredients
Prepare a handful of fresh oily wheat vegetables, remove the roots and cut into segments. Slice red pepper, cut into thin strips and use to match the color. Prepare an appropriate amount of minced garlic and set aside.
Prepare a small bowl, pour in 10 grams of oyster sauce and 10 grams of steamed fish soy sauce, stir well with a spoon and set aside.
2. Blanch the oil and wheat vegetables in the water
Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, after the water boils, wash the oil and wheat vegetables and pour them into the pot, and blanch quickly for 30 seconds. After the oil and wheat vegetables are greened and soft, they are poured out to control the water.
Then place the oil and wheat vegetables on a plate, pour the prepared bowl ingredients evenly, sprinkle with minced garlic and red pepper shreds and set aside. When the oil temperature is 70% hot, pour the hot oil on top of the minced garlic to stimulate the aroma, and the delicious taste is complete.
The 4th species: lettuce
Summer is also a large number of lettuce market season, lettuce taste crisp, fresh and delicious, you can directly eat cold mix raw, you can also fry to eat, buy more sun-dried, save to eat in winter, is a unique flavor.
1. Prepare the ingredients
Peel and clean one lettuce, wash the lettuce, cut into strips and place on a plate.
Half a red pepper, remove the seeds and cut into wide strips, so that the color matching is more beautiful.
A few garlic grains, pat flat and cut into minced pieces, put in a small pot and set aside.
2. Blanch the lettuce in the water
Pour water into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, blanch the lettuce and red pepper for 10 seconds, rinse with clean water and control the moisture.
3. Start cooking
Heat the oil in a pan, add the minced garlic, sauté the garlic flavor, add the lettuce and red pepper, turn on high heat and stir-fry a few times. Add salt, chicken essence, sugar, unwind the seasoning and stir-fry for a while, hook the water starch, turn on the heat to collect the juice.
Pour a little oil on the pan before leaving the pot to make the dish more vivid, turn it over and put it on the plate.
Species 5: Lotus seeds
The lotus core is with a faint bitter taste, which can clear the fire and calm the spirit. Fresh lotus seeds can be eaten directly raw, or you can cook porridge, or take out the lotus seeds and dry them to make tea, which is a very good way to eat.
Recommended directions: [Silver ear lotus seed soup]
1. Prepare the ingredients
Prepare a handful of lotus seeds and an appropriate amount of lilies and soak them in warm water. Soak soft on it, remove the core of the lotus seed, otherwise the bitter taste is too heavy.
After processing, wash them with clean water, pit the dates and cut them from the middle. Foamed white fungus, remove the hard root and tear it into small pieces, wash it and set aside.
It is best to buy some yellowish silver ear fungus, which has not been bleached, and it is more reassuring to eat.
2. Place in a casserole dish
Pour the right amount of water into the casserole dish and put all the freshly processed ingredients into the pot. Sprinkle a handful of rock sugar, then cover the pot and heat until airy. Simmer for another 40 minutes over medium heat, fully simmering the collagen of the white fungus.
Simmer for 40 minutes, sprinkle some goji berries out of the pan, simmer slightly, and eat.
"Summer suffers, wins and supplements", these 5 ingredients are most suitable for summer consumption, clearing the heat and relieving the heat. Summer is hot, eat more heat to relieve the fire and cool off the heat.
(First Food Editor: Happy)