As the saying goes, "it's cold in Sanjiu", and yesterday we entered the coldest time of the year. Sanjiu makes up for a winter, and there will be no pain in the coming year~ This is a good time to take supplements.
When it comes to winter tonic, many people's first reaction is to eat mutton to warm up the body and replenish yang! Mutton is indeed a good thing to take in winter, but many people can't accept the smell of mutton, and sometimes it is easy to get angry when you eat it. Are there any better supplements for greater applicability?
Hou Xixin, director of the Nutrition Department of the Third People's Hospital of Zhengzhou, recommended that you might as well eat more chicken during the March 9 season, which will help to resist frost and prevent diseases.
Every nine chickens, good health in the coming year
As the saying goes, "every nine chickens, good health in the coming year", eating chicken is the best way to nourish in the eyes of the ancients.
Warm and replenish the cold
Whether it's before the weather gets cold or when it's cold, adding clothes at the right time can certainly keep you warm, but at this time, a bowl of hot chicken soup will make your body warmer and less afraid of the cold. Some tonic soups such as ginger duck and Shiquan tonic soup are more dry and hot, and people with a hot constitution may have the opposite effect if they eat it, while chicken soup is more suitable for warm tonics.
Assists in lowering blood pressure
Chicken has been rated as the best comprehensive diet of the year for 5 consecutive years, Zhang Ye, former director of the nutrition department of the 309 Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, said that chicken is rich in arginine, the magic of this amino acid is:
●It can assist in the removal of vascular plaque and is a scavenger of blood vessels;
●It has the effect of dilating blood vessels, improving blood circulation, and assisting in regulating blood pressure;
●Arginine can also be converted into nitric oxide in the human body, which contributes to the relaxation of smooth muscles, and ranks first among substances that can maintain blood pressure stability.
In addition, chicken also contains a lot of unsaturated fatty acids, namely linolenic acid and linoleic acid. These oils can reduce the accumulation of bad cholesterol and have a certain effect on the prevention of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Resistant to diseases and colds
Chicken soup needs to be simmered for a long time to produce a very essence of the soup, the tender chicken is very nutritious to improve immunity, plus the boiling process will release an amino acid, which can prevent the active white blood cells during inflammation, increase resistance, and soothe cold symptoms.
Nourish the kidneys
If you want to nourish your kidneys in winter, it is recommended to use chicken soup to nourish your kidneys, which can improve problems such as backache, cold hands and feet, frequent urination, nocturia and so on.
Gain muscle and lose weight
Chicken is a high-protein and low-fat meat, with 23.3 grams of protein per 100 grams of chicken, which is 2.5 times that of pork, basically the same as beef, and twice as much as mutton.
It can not only supplement the protein needed by the human body, maintain the normal function of the body, but also assist in muscle gain and weight loss.
Anti-osteoporosis
In addition to being rich in vitamin B, chicken soup can also nourish yin and regulate menstruation, strengthen the spleen, and also contain calcium, which can prevent osteoporosis.
The best soup tonic for winter
Hou Xixin, director of the Nutrition Department of the Third People's Hospital of Zhengzhou, recommended the recommended chicken soup dietary prescription, which can not only nourish yin and replenish yang, but also help prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and improve immunity.
Stewed chicken with yellow essence and black beans
Ingredients: take 15 grams of yellow essence, 50 grams of black beans, 5 grams of wolfberry, half a chicken, ginger, and an appropriate amount of cooking wine
Method:
1. Wash the chicken, chop it, and fly it;
2. Wash and soak black beans, and rinse yellow essence and wolfberry.
3. Put all the ingredients into the stew pot, add water for nine minutes, simmer for 15 minutes, then simmer for 45 minutes, add a small amount of salt to taste.
Solution: Yellow essence, because eating its roots can satisfy hunger, it was called Zhicao and "fairy grass" in ancient times. Modern pharmacological studies have found that its extract is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and can lower blood pressure, lower blood sugar, regulate blood lipids, and improve immunity. Black beans nourish the kidney and improve water, stew with yellow essence and chicken, which can regulate the five organs, nourish the kidney and benefit the essence, and moisturize but not dry.
Mushroom chicken broth
Ingredients: chicken, shiitake mushrooms, chicken fir mushrooms, vermicelli, spices, green onion and ginger, seasonings
Method: Cut the chicken into pieces and put it into the pot, add green onions, ginger, Sichuan pepper, cinnamon, chili pepper and soy sauce and stir-fry evenly. Put the shiitake mushrooms, chicken fir mushrooms, mushroom water, and raw chestnuts into the pot, simmer until ripe, add the vermicelli, and wait until all the ingredients are cooked thoroughly before cooking.
Solution: Chicken and mushrooms are a pair of "classic partners", which are not only delicious, but also have certain benefits for regulating blood lipids. Mushrooms contain sterols, a type of phytosterol, which can disorient cholesterol and reduce the absorption of "bad cholesterol".
Chicken goes well with it
Chicken can be stewed in soup, braised and stir-fried, and there are various ways to eat it, but it is well matched and has higher nutritional value.
1. Chicken + chestnut
Chicken tonifies the spleen and hematopoiesis, and chestnuts strengthen the spleen, which is more conducive to the human body to absorb the nutrients of chicken, and is also conducive to improving the hematopoietic function of chicken.
Chestnut stewed chicken
Ingredients: chicken, green onion, ginger, garlic, chestnut, seasoning
Method:
1. Put little oil in the pot, boil the green onions, ginger and garlic in the pot, cut the chicken wings into pieces and fry them in the pan until golden brown.
2. Pour in the peeled chestnuts and stir-fry, cook 3 tablespoons of cooking wine, 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce, 2 tablespoons of light soy sauce, 1 little white sugar, stir-fry until the chicken is colored, add an appropriate amount of water and simmer.
3. The soup becomes thick, add chives and remove from the pot.
2. Chicken + ginseng
Ginseng greatly replenishes vitality and quenches thirst. Chicken contains nutrients such as protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc. The two are eaten together to fill the essence and replenish the marrow, invigorate the blood and regulate menstruation.
3. Chicken + enoki mushrooms
Enoki mushroom is rich in guanylate, combined with inosinate in chicken will release monosodium glutamate, and there are mysterols, dietary fiber, polyphenols, minerals, which can reduce cholesterol synthesis and absorption, and have antioxidant capacity, which can protect blood vessels, assist in lowering blood pressure, and also benefit the brain.
4. Chicken + five-finger peach
The five-finger peach soup stew not only tastes delicious and has a fragrant smell, but also has a certain effect on spleen deficiency and edema, lack of appetite and weakness, tuberculosis cough, night sweats, belt down, postpartum milklessness, menstrual irregularities, rheumatism and pain, edema, etc.
5. Chicken + astragalus
Astragalus stewed chicken has a particularly good effect of nourishing the heart and replenishing qi, and is an ideal delicacy for all kinds of people who want to replenish qi, and can be eaten all year round. This medicinal diet has good tonic effect and mild nature, not as hot and dry as ginseng stewed chicken, and can be eaten by the elderly and children.
The secret to a good pot of chicken broth
Some people wonder, no matter how you adjust the recipe, but why the chicken soup you cook is not as delicious as the outside to drink, today I will tell you the secret, let you cook a pot of chef-level soup in 9 steps, and keep it for the New Year so that the family is full of praise.
01Choose hens
It is best to use hens for boiling chicken soup, because the fat content of hens is high, and the umami substances in the meat are easy to dissolve in the soup, and the stewed chicken soup is delicious.
02Remove attachments
Removing some of the "accessories" on the chicken can make the chicken soup more delicious, otherwise it is easy to make the chicken soup smell.
The "accessories" that affect the taste of the soup include: the internal organs of the chicken (such as chicken liver, chicken lungs, etc.), the toenails on the chicken feet, and the chicken nose (located between the upper part of the chicken mouth and the eyes).
03Freeze it
After buying fresh chicken home, it should be put in the refrigerator freezer for 2~4 hours, the purpose is to let the chicken "drain acid", so that the boiled chicken soup has no fishy smell and tastes better.
04 Blanch three times
Before boiling the soup, blanch the chicken three times with hot water, which will make the chicken skin not easy to break, and also make the soup beautiful.
05Use a casserole
It is best to use a casserole instead of an iron pot to boil chicken soup, because the iron pot will bring the taste of rust into the chicken soup, and the casserole can "gather" the umami and make the soup more delicious.
06Add plenty of water
Do not add water to the soup halfway through the chicken soup, otherwise it will affect the deliciousness of the chicken soup. If water must be added, boiling water should be preferred.
07Use less seasonings
The most commonly used seasonings for boiling chicken soup are ginger and green onions, and it is best not to add too many strong seasonings (such as star anise, cinnamon) so as not to spoil the original flavor of the chicken. If you want to increase the "seasoning" such as jujube or longan, you should put it in when the meat is six or seven ripe.
08Add salt at the end
Don't put salt too early, otherwise it will not only affect the umami of the soup, but the meat is also easy to stew, so be sure to put it when the soup is about to simmer.
09 There is a trick to get rid of oil slicks
Although chicken soup is good, some people still think it is too greasy, in fact, there are two small ways to get rid of the oil slick.
1. When handling the chicken, remove the skin and scrape off the yellow chicken fat, so that the soup is clearer. However, because there is no skin protection, the meat moisture is relatively easy to lose, and the taste is not so good.
2. Large plate of seaweed absorbs oil:
First of all, remove the whole layer of seaweed from the large plate, and do not break it.
Then turn down the heat of the chicken soup and let it bubble a little bit, at this time put the seaweed flat in the soup, you will find that the seaweed is slowly sinking, and this sinking process is actually the process of absorbing oil.
Finally, when the nori is about to sink, it is fished out, so that most of the oil in the chicken broth is adsorbed out.
5 types of people should pay attention to when drinking chicken soup
Although chicken soup is good, it is not without taboos, and 5 types of people should pay attention when drinking it. The first three types of people do not mean that they can't drink, it is okay to drink it once a week, and patients with gout and renal insufficiency should drink as little as possible.
1. Patients with gastric ulcer, gastric acid, and gastroesophageal reflux
Because chicken soup can stimulate the increase of gastric acid secretion, and for these three types of patients, gastric acid can stimulate ulcers and aggravate gastroesophageal reflux. However, for people with indigestion and poor stomach function, drinking chicken soup in moderation can help digestion and appetizing.
2. Patients with cholecystitis and gallstones
Due to the high fat and fat content in chicken broth, bile is required in the digestion process of the intestines, and for people with biliary diseases, excessive fat intake will stimulate the gallbladder to contract and discharge bile into the intestines. This can predispose to cholecystitis attacks and increase the risk of gallstones.
3. People with high blood lipids
Similarly, due to the fat in chicken soup, the human body is obese, blood lipids are increased, and it is easy to precipitate in the blood vessel wall, forming plaques and blood clots. Therefore, people with three highs, although they feel weak many times, cannot blindly drink chicken soup. The best way to do this is to remove the upper layer of oil and peel it for consumption. It not only achieves the purpose of protein supplementation, but also avoids excessive fat intake.
4. Patients with gout
We know that gout patients are most afraid of eating foods with high purine content, such as seafood, fatty meat, etc. Chicken soup is slowly boiled for several hours, resulting in a large amount of purines in the soup, which is a very unfavorable diet for gout patients.
5. Patients with renal insufficiency
For people with poor kidneys, a low-protein diet is a must. However, if you drink chicken soup, you will inevitably eat chicken, which is a high-protein food and is not suitable for people with renal insufficiency. In addition, the fat content in chicken soup is extremely high, and people with renal insufficiency also need to be controlled.
Cheaper than mutton, more delicious than pork, auxiliary blood pressure and tonic organs, nourishing is not on fire, the best soup supplement recipe in winter, you must remember to drink it~
(This article is synthesized from "Happy Old Man Daily", "Family Doctor", "Health Times", "Life Times")