Eating lotus seeds like this will make you sleep well, you will have fewer dreams, your body will be comfortable, and it is good for your body for elderly friends to eat more.
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When it comes to lotus seeds, everyone is very familiar with them, especially for our friends in the south, lotus seeds are a kind of ingredient that has been seen since childhood. The lotus seed is the lotus seed that bears out after flowering on the top of our union, and when the fruit in the lotus pod is ripe, it is the lotus seed.
The tender lotus seeds taste like fresh peanuts, sweet and juicy, very delicious, and the taste is particularly refreshing. When the lotus seeds are old, the outer skin becomes particularly hard, and the fruits inside are generally used to make porridge and soup, which is very nourishing.
Lotus seeds are rich in protein, phospholipids, alkaloid flavonoids, and other vitamins and other nutrients, so lotus seeds are very nutritious, and it is recommended that middle-aged and elderly friends can eat some lotus seeds often.
First of all, prepare a large handful of lotus seeds, when choosing lotus seeds, we try to choose the color, it looks darker, not particularly snow-white, and try to choose lotus seeds that contain lotus cores.
We all know that the lotus seed core is particularly bitter, and many friends don't like the taste of the lotus seed core, so in order to meet the needs of the public, the merchant has produced a kind of lotus seed that removes the lotus heart, so that the lotus seed can be bought home without peeling the lotus core.
Therefore, many friends who don't like the taste of lotus seed hearts will choose this kind of lotus seeds.
In fact, the lotus seed heart is very nutritious, and the nutrients contained in it are no less than the lotus seeds themselves. Therefore, it is recommended that everyone eat lotus seeds at the same time, and it is best to eat them with lotus hearts.
Put the prepared lotus core into a bowl, add an appropriate amount of water and rinse twice. Because lotus seeds are very hard, many friends will soak them in the same way as they usually soak peanuts. In fact, lotus seeds do not need to be soaked at all, after long-term soaking, lotus seeds are particularly easy to lead to the loss of nutrients, and the taste of cooking is not good, so lotus seeds do not need to be soaked at all, and the taste is more soft and glutinous after being boiled directly.
After washing the lotus seeds, now remove them from the water and put them in a bowl for later use.
Next, prepare a small handful of peanuts, peanuts are also a very common ingredient, and the nutrients it contains are self-evident. And there are many ways to eat peanuts, but not every way to eat them can give full play to the nutrients in them.
Here we prepare peanuts, preferably this kind of small peanut with smaller grains and brighter red skin. Such peanuts are more suitable for stewing, while the common peanuts in life with larger particles and lighter skin color are more suitable for deep-fried peanuts.
After the peanuts are ready, they are also put into a bowl, washed twice with water, and the washed peanuts are washed, we add an appropriate amount of warm water and soak the peanuts for half an hour.
Although peanuts are actually much softer than lotus seeds, they are not easy to cook, so under normal circumstances, we need to soak the peanuts for half an hour in advance to soak the peanuts in advance.
Then prepare an appropriate amount of red dates, "three dates a day" Everyone has heard of it, right? Dates are rich in iron and other nutrients, and it is a very friendly ingredient for female friends.
I have prepared six jujubes here, and then a small handful of goji berries.
Put the jujube and goji berries together, then add a little salt, flour, and a little water to clean the jujube and goji berries.
Wash the red dates and wolfberries, remove them from the water, and put them on a plate for later use. Goji berries and red dates must be separated because they are not the same ripeness.
Prepare a toothpick and poke the surface of each jujube with dense holes, which is conducive to maintaining the integrity of the jujube and allowing the jujube to better release the nutrients and sweetness in it.
Poke all the small holes and set them aside for later use.
Next, prepare a yam, the common yam is cotton yam and crispy yam, and these two yams, in addition to the taste is not the same, the other nutrients are similar, so you can choose according to your preferences.
For example, our family likes to eat cotton yams, so I have prepared half a cotton yam here.
We first put the prepared yam under tap water and rinse the soil on the surface. After washing, put disposable gloves on your hands and use a scaling knife to scrape the skin of the yam clean.
Everyone knows that yam is very nutritious, but when it comes to peeling yam, many people are particularly troubled, because most friends will be allergic to the mucus on the yam. After the yam skin is removed, the hands will itch and even red.
Therefore, when we peel the yam skin, try to wear disposable gloves on our hands to avoid allergies.
So if you don't have disposable gloves at home, we can also insert a chopstick from the center of the yam. Grasp the chopsticks with one hand and peel off the skin of the yam with a paring knife with the other.
After shaving it, pat it directly with a kitchen knife and smash it.
Of course, you can also cut the yam into your favorite shape, such as circles, small pieces, and hob cuts.
Next, we will prepare half a white fungus, which is a very nourishing product, especially for autumn and winter, and it is also a very friendly ingredient for elderly friends.
Soak it in warm water, wash it after soaking, and then tear it into small flowers with your hands, the smaller the better.
When all the ingredients are ready, now put the chopped yam into the casserole, then add the lotus seeds, red dates and peanuts, then add enough water, cover the pot, turn on high heat, bring the inside of the pot to a boil, turn to medium-low heat after boiling, and cook for another 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes, we pour in the white fungus and stir it twice with a spoon to make the white fungus better heated. At the same time, you can also make the white fungus better remove the glue and stir for about a minute, then cover and continue to simmer for 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes, you can see that the soup in the pot has become very thick. At this time, add the previously washed goji berries, add an appropriate amount of yellow rock sugar, and then stir with a spoon.
Thanks, continue to cover and cook the rock sugar until completely dissolved, then turn off the heat and simmer for two minutes.
The key to the baby's glue is to tear the white fungus very small first, so that the gum in the white fungus is easier to come out, and the white fungus boiled out will be smooth and delicious.
In addition, after boiling, we also need to simmer it for a few minutes, so that the white fungus will be more viscous.
Lotus seeds are nourishing and nutritious when paired with these ingredients, and they are also particularly delicious.
The white fungus in this practice is mainly to match this cold winter, which is not only cold in winter, but also has a particularly dry climate, so when we boil lotus seed soup, we can add a little white fungus appropriately.
So if it's summer, when we boil this soup again, we can change the silver in it to barley, in addition to barley, you can also add a little mung bean to it, because no matter how good the ingredients, we have to eat them one after another, so it will be good for us.
Although lotus seeds are very simple to match with these ingredients, they are particularly nutritious, and the effect is not simple at all.
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