The winter solstice is coming, remind everyone: eat less dry things, eat more 4 things to avoid 1 thing, increase immunity and survive the winter safely. December 22 winter solstice, the arrival of the winter solstice began to enter the coldest number of nine cold days of the year, during this time we need to pay more attention to the diet, eat more warm food, eat less "dry matter", the winter climate is dry, eating dry matter is easy to cause the throat is not suitable for fire.
As the winter solstice approaches, in order to meet this cold season, we need to adjust our diet Xi habits to allow our bodies to better adapt to the cold environment. On the occasion of the winter solstice, eating less dry food and consuming more foods that nourish the immune system is a wise choice for us to care about our own health. Here are some health tips for the winter solstice.
Eat less dry food
Try not to eat less "dry food" that is not conducive to physical health, because it is already dry in winter, and eat spicy food that is easy to irritate the throat after eating "dry matter", and eat less or no greasy and fried food that is not conducive to digestion. Eat plenty of immune-friendly foods to keep your body healthy and warm.
Eat more than 4 things to avoid 1 thing: beef, jujubes, mushrooms, and mutton
1. Beef
Recommended recipe: Lamb soup stewed with white radish
1. White radish, beef, ginger, green onion, coriander.
2. Peel and wash the white radish and cut it into pieces, wash and cut the green onion and ginger, wash and cut the coriander, and set aside.
3. Wash the beef in a pot under cold water, add ginger and green onion and blanch together. Pick up, wash and cut into cubes and set aside.
4. Stir-fry the green onion and ginger in the hot pan with cold oil until fragrant, and then add the beef and stir-fry until fragrant.
5. Transfer to a casserole and add an appropriate amount of water.
6. Simmer the beef for 30 minutes, add the white radish and continue to simmer for 20 minutes, add the green onion and coriander, a little salt and pepper and mix well.
2. Jujubes
Recommended recipe: Red dates, angelica, brown sugar egg soup
1. Ingredients: red dates, astragalus, angelica, wolfberry, eggs, brown sugar.
2. Clean all the ingredients, boil the eggs in advance, peel the shells and set aside.
3. Put the washed angelica, red dates, wolfberries and longan into the soup pot together, and add an appropriate amount of water.
4. Add the shelled eggs and brown sugar and cook together for 10 minutes to bring out the flavor of the ingredients, and then add the wolfberries and boil them together.
3. Mushrooms
Recommended recipe: Chicken soup with mixed mushrooms
1. Ingredients: chicken, miscellaneous mushrooms (red dates, tea tree mushrooms, morels, cordyceps flowers, matsutake mushrooms).
2. Wash the miscellaneous mushrooms, red dates and ginger and set aside.
3. Wash the chicken and cut it into pieces and set aside. (You don't need to blanch the local chicken).
4. Prepare a stew pot, add green onions, and pour in miscellaneous mushrooms.
5. Add the prepared chicken, an appropriate amount of water, put it in a stew pot and simmer for about 1 and a half hours. Add a pinch of salt to taste.
Fourth, mutton
Recommended recipe: nourishing mutton soup
1. Ingredients: mutton, bamboo cane, stewed soup (red dates, wolfberry, longan, codonopsis, angelica, polygonatum, astragalus).
2. Wash the stewed soup ingredients (red dates, wolfberry, longan, codonopsis, angelica, polygonatum, astragalus) and set aside.
3. Wash the mutton and cut it into pieces, blanch it in a pot under cold water, drain it, wash it and set aside.
4. Wash and slice the ginger, peel and wash the water chestnut, wash and cut the bamboo cane into pieces and set aside. This makes it easier to cook and taste.
5. Heat the pan with cold oil, add the ginger slices and stir-fry until fragrant, and then add the mutton and stir-fry.
6. Pour the mutton into the stew pot, add all the ingredients (except wolfberry) and simmer together, boil over high heat and simmer over low heat for 1 hour, add a little salt and wolfberry.
Don't 1: Dress "without showing your ankles" and pay attention to keeping warm
After the winter solstice, there are nine cold days, and dressing "without showing ankles" comes from the ancient concept of health preservation. The ankle is a place where cold and dampness are easy to invade the human body, and it is believed that this part is the main route for wind and cold invasion, and avoiding exposure can effectively prevent diseases caused by cold. This traditional belief reflects a focus on cold-weather health to keep the body warm and healthy.
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On this winter solstice, let's follow these tips together, eat less dry things and eat more immune-friendly foods to keep your body healthy and warm. With these small adjustments, we will be able to weather the cold winter with more confidence and vitality and welcome a new year full of health and joy. I wish you all a happy winter solstice and a safe winter!