Although summer is hot, you can experience the joy of "fruit freedom".
When I think of watermelons, lychees, longans, mangoes... The heat also seems to have dropped a little.
Today, I would like to take this opportunity to recommend a special fruit - yellow peel.
Yellow peel is known as "the treasure of fruits" and "righteous qi fruit"!
Yellow skin, Cantonese people must be no stranger, every year from June to August is its best consumption period, proper summer limited.
Yellow peel is a kind of fruit for both medicine and food, the taste is sour and sweet, sweet and bitter, with a faint "medicinal taste", known as the "treasure of the fruit".
It has been recorded in the "Great Dictionary of Chinese Medicine" that yellow peel has the functions of eliminating food and strengthening the stomach, relieving qi, eliminating phlegm and dissolving qi, moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough, removing chancre accumulation, and quenching thirst.
Its heat-relieving effect is comparable to Huo Xiang Zhengqi Water, so yellow peel is also known as the "Huo Xiang Zhengqi Water" in the fruit world.
But the sweet and sour yellow skin tastes much better than Huo Xiang Zhengqi Water, and the fruity aroma is mixed with a faint Chinese medicine flavor, which is acceptable to ordinary people.
In the folk, people also call yellow peel "positive qi fruit", because it can clear heat and defeat fire, rationalize qi and strengthen the spleen.
What's more rare is that yellow skin is not like lychee and longan, as soon as you eat more, it will be on fire, it is flat, and it doesn't matter if you eat more.
The elderly at home also often say that it doesn't matter if you eat more yellow skin, especially when you have indigestion and cough and cold.
Having said that yellow skin has so many benefits, how can it be used specifically? Don't worry, just look at it -
A small yellow skin
Eat fresh to reduce the heat, soak in water to dissolve phlegm, and add vegetables to help digestion
Yellow peel, which can be eaten fresh as a fruit and seasoned in vegetables.
Eat yellow skin fresh, clear heat and reduce fire
When eating yellow peel, you can swallow the pulp and peel together, the taste will be a little bitter, but it can play a role in reducing fire, relieving indigestion, and stomach fullness.
If you feel that the yellow skin tastes too sour, you may wish to try the sweet taste of "chicken heart yellow skin", the fruit is juicy and the taste is sweet.
Yellow skin soaked in water to drink, cough and phlegm
In addition to eating fresh, yellow peel can also be soaked in water or processed into preserves, which is a good remedy for cough and phlegm.
Health recommendation: old salt yellow skin water
Old salt yellow skin water is actually a drink made by mixing old salt and mashed yellow peel.
The light saltiness of old salt sets off the sweetness of the yellow skin, and it tastes salty and sweet and fresh, which is simply a "remedy for the heat" in the hot summer.
Ingredients: yellow peel, old salt, ice, sugar.
Method: Gently scrub the surface of the yellow skin with salt, then cut it in half to remove the pit, then put the yellow skin, old salt, ice cubes into the container and mash, and finally add ice water and an appropriate amount of sugar, you can drink.
Health recommendation: yellow candied fruit
The yellow peel fruit has a short market period, so resourceful people turn it into preserves to extend its shelf life.
Yellow skin preserves, sweet and glutinous, can be eaten directly as snacks, can also be used to soak water to drink, can moisturize the throat, cough and phlegm.
Method: After washing the yellow skin, squeeze out the pit; Sprinkle sugar on the yellow skin and put it in a casserole, simmer over medium-low heat until the skin of the yellow skin becomes transparent, then you can collect the juice and turn off the heat.
However, it should be noted that homemade yellow preserves will have a slight astringency, and friends who mind can go to the supermarket or buy them online.
Yellow peel into the dish, appetizing to aid digestion
Sweet and sour yellow skin can be used in dishes, most commonly with meat, which can highlight the deliciousness of meat and has appetizing and digestive tonic effects.
When cooking with yellow peel, just use a knife to make a small opening from the root of the yellow peel, squeeze out the pit, and use the meat with the peel to make an appetizer.
Health recommendation: yellow skin chicken soup
Ingredients: 1/2 chicken, 3 pieces of ginger, 12~15 yellow skins.
Method: Put the chicken nuggets and ginger into a pot, add water and cook slowly for 30-40 minutes, skim off the upper layer of oil and leave the broth; Add the yellow skin meat and cook for 2 minutes, sour can be seasoned with a little white sugar.
(Daily Wellness Push)