The sun and moon alternate, the solar terms change, and the summer solstice in the twenty-four solar terms has quietly arrived.
The day of the summer solstice is the ultimate of the sun's northward movement, hitting the Tropic of Cancer and the longest day of the year. After this day, the sun began to move south, and the days gradually became shorter, so there was the Tang Dynasty poet Wei Yingwu's "day has become cloudy, and the night leakage has been long since then".
After the summer solstice, there will be a real hot summer weather, the temperature continues to rise, the thunderstorm weather also increases, and the long-term hot and humid weather will bring discomfort.
Therefore, since ancient times, people have paid special attention to the summer solstice, and have left many traditional food customs in terms of diet, on the one hand, to worship ancestors, celebrate a good harvest, on the other hand, to "make up for summer", so as not to eat in hot weather, there will be some discomforts such as boiling summer.
Tomorrow is the summer solstice, according to the old tradition, do not forget to "make up for the summer", especially remember to eat six things, eat according to the season, smoothly enter the fire and spend the summer healthily.
1. Eat summer solstice noodles
As the saying goes, "winter solstice dumplings summer solstice noodles", since ancient times, many regions in the north of the mainland have the traditional custom of eating noodles on the summer solstice. Because the newly ripe wheat has been harvested after the mango planting, you can taste the new wheat at the summer solstice, and every family will use this new wheat to grind into flour and make noodles to eat.
The summer solstice weather is relatively hot, and the summer solstice noodles are generally made into cold noodles, which are appetizing and reduce the fire, and have some health benefits.
Recommended practice: 【Summer solstice noodles】
Ingredients: noodles, chicken breast, shrimp, carrots, cucumbers, eggs, mung bean sprouts, millet pepper, garlic, spring onions
1. Wash and wipe the carrots and cucumbers, pour the mung bean sprouts and the shredded carrots into a pot of boiling water, blanch for 10 seconds and take out, peel the fresh shrimp and put them into the pot and blanch them and take them out.
2. After rinsing the chicken breast, put it in a cold water pot, add cooking wine and peppercorns, cook and fish, tear into shredded chicken after cooling, beat the eggs with salt, pour into a pan and spread into egg cakes and cut into fine strips.
3. Put minced garlic, millet pepper rings and sesame seeds in a bowl, pour hot oil to stimulate the aroma, release light soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, oyster sauce, sesame paste, salt, chicken essence, sugar, stir well and put sesame oil and sesame oil. The noodles are cooked in a pan, remove the super-cold water and put them in a bowl.
4. Put mung bean sprouts, shredded cucumbers, shredded carrots, shredded chicken, egg cakes and shrimp around the noodles, pour the seasoned sauce on top, mix well and serve.
Second, eat ravioli
In the north, most people eat summer solstice noodles, and in the Jiangnan area, they will eat wontons on the day of the summer solstice, so the folk saying circulating in the south is "summer solstice wontons winter solstice group, four seasons of ankang people reunion".
Eating wontons, like eating summer solstice noodles, is also to taste new wheat, and wontons have meat and vegetables, and they are nutritious to eat. In addition, wontons also have a good meaning of chaos and harmony, and after the whole family eats it, the family can spend it healthily even in the face of hot summer days.
Recommended method: 【Pork celery stuffed wontons】
Ingredients: pork, celery, wonton wrapper, egg, coriander, seaweed, ginger, green onion
1: Remove the leaves of celery, wash and chop, sprinkle with salt and marinate for 10 minutes. Cut the sliced green onion and ginger and peppercorns in a bowl and soak in warm water to make green onion and ginger water.
2. Cut the pork into minced meat, pour green onion and ginger water into the minced meat, beat an egg white, stir well, put two spoons of light soy sauce, half a spoonful of oyster sauce and a little dark soy sauce, add some pepper, stir well.
3. After the celery kills the water, mix with sesame oil with green onion, pour into the minced meat, stir well, sprinkle with a spoonful of salt and mix well.
4. Take the wonton skin and wrap it in minced meat, put it into a pot of boiling water and cook it, put light soy sauce, salt, chicken essence and pepper in the bowl, then put some shrimp skin and seaweed, pour in the broth, fish in the wontons, and finally sprinkle with coriander, chives and sesame seeds.
Third, eat amaranth
From summer to June and July, amaranth is very suitable for buying several times to eat when it is ripe, and the nutritional value of amaranth is very high, and even has the reputation of "gold does not change".
In some areas, the summer solstice day is to eat amaranth, according to the local old people said "eat amaranth, will not have a sha", shama is the meaning of heat stroke, although a little exaggerated, but amaranth can indeed help the body remove heat, enhance physical fitness, eat more is beneficial.
Recommended method: 【Amaranth soup】
Ingredients: Amaranth, preserved egg, luncheon meat, garlic, green onion
1: Wash the amaranth, remove the shell and dice the preserved egg, cut the lunch meat into cubes, and prepare garlic slices, green onion and ginger slices.
2. Bring water to a boil in a pot, put salt and cooking oil, pour in amaranth, blanch for 20 seconds.
3. Pour oil into a wok, stir-fry green onion, ginger and garlic until fragrant, pour in lunch meat and preserved egg and stir-fry, add a bowl of boiling water, and simmer into a milky white soup.
4. Pour the amaranth into the pot, simmer for one minute, the soup is slightly reddish, put salt, chicken essence, stir well, turn off the heat and serve.
Fourth, eat gourds
For the phrase "after eating amaranth, you will not get shady", in fact, it also has the second half, that is, "eat the gourd, the legs are strong". Summer solstice weather is hot, many people will have loss of appetite, and eating gourd can be a good way to increase appetite, and promote digestion, it is also rich in vitamins, and it is also good for the skin.
Edible gourds are rarely sold in the north, but if you want to eat them on the summer solstice, you can buy gourds or zucchini instead, they belong to the gourd family, and the nutrition of gourds is not much different, fried and eaten refreshing and appetizing.
Recommended method: 【Roasted gourd tofu with tomatoes】
Ingredients: Gourd, tomatoes, tofu, shrimp skin, green onion, garlic
1. After cleaning the gourd, peel and remove the bowl, dice it with tofu, soak the tomatoes in hot water, peel and cut into cubes. Prepare some sliced green onion and minced garlic.
2. Bring water to a boil in a pot, put a spoonful of salt, pour in diced gourds, blanch for one minute, remove and add diced tofu, blanch for half a minute.
3. Heat the oil, add green onions and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, pour in diced tomatoes and stir-fry the sauce, pour in the gourd and stir-fry for one minute, and then pour in the diced tofu.
4. After stir-frying for two minutes, pour in shrimp skin, put half a spoonful of pepper and sugar, add appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence, stir-fry well to taste.
5. Eat lychees
Around June is the season to eat lychees, especially in Guangdong and Guangxi, many varieties of lychees just ripen around this summer solstice festival, so some places will buy or pick some lychees to eat on the summer solstice.
Lychee is sweet and juicy, rich in vitamin C, and eating some properly can also relieve the discomfort caused by dry mouth and loss of appetite.
Recommended method: 【Lychee yogurt jelly】
Ingredients: Lychee, mango, yogurt, brown sugar
1. Remove the shell after cleaning the lychee, take a knife to dig out the litchi core, leaving the whole lychee meat.
2. Divide a packet of yogurt into two parts, pour it into a small bowl, add a little white sugar and brown sugar to the two yogurt bowls and stir well.
3. Pour the yogurt into the lychee meat, cut the mango in half along the core, and cut the mango pulp with a cross knife.
4. Sprinkle the mango pulp on the lychee yogurt, put it in the refrigerator for two hours after cooking, and then take it out and eat.
6. Eat summer solstice eggs
During the summer solstice, there are many customs of eating eggs in the Hunan area, and there is a folk saying "eat eggs on the summer solstice, and the stone slab is not rotten in summer".
This sentence is not out of nowhere, because eggs are rich in protein, calcium, potassium and other nutrients, eating more eggs can indeed enhance immunity, replenish energy, is to help prevent the summer, legs and feet become strong. Moreover, when eating summer solstice eggs, it is best to cook them with red dates, which will be more conducive to good health.
Recommended practice: 【Summer Solstice Egg】
Ingredients: eggs, ginger, dates, goji berries, brown sugar
1. Boiling pot with water, put the eggs into the boiling pot after cleaning, turn on the fire and cook for eight minutes, cook and take out, put in cold water to cool down and peel off the eggshells.
2. Peel and wash the ginger, wash and shred, wash the red dates and soak them in water with goji berries.
3. Boiling pot with water, pour in soaked red dates and ginger shreds, put in an appropriate amount of brown sugar, turn on the fire to boil the water.
4. After the brown sugar water is boiled, turn to low heat and simmer for five minutes, put in eggs and simmer for about ten minutes, turn off the heat and then serve.
——Lao Jing said——
After the summer solstice, the temperature is hot, you need to pay more attention to the diet, appetite may decrease, remember to drink more water, soup, morning and evening can also drink some mung beans, red bean porridge to nourish the body. The best diet is lighter, eat less greasy food, you can eat some bitter food, such as bitter melon, bitter chrysanthemum, coriander, etc., clear heat and relieve heat. Then eat some peaceful fruits such as loquats and grapes to replenish vitamins and water.
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