In this digital age, our eyes are being challenged every day. Staring at the screen of a computer or mobile phone for a long time can not only easily lead to eye fatigue, but also may cause various eye diseases. So, how do we protect our "window to the soul"?
We all know that carrots are rich in vitamin A, which is good for eye health, but in fact, there is another food around us that is 23 times more effective than carrots!
Spinach is known as the "eye protection champion", and its rich lutein and zeaxanthin have strong antioxidant properties, which can effectively protect the retina from free radical damage. Moreover, this nutrient cannot be synthesized in the body and must be taken from food. In contrast, carrots are also rich in vitamin A, but they are far less abundant in lutein and zeaxanthin than spinach.
So, how to eat spinach to better exert its eye protection effect? The following is a unique method with spinach as the protagonist, so that you can enjoy the delicious taste at the same time, but also inject full vitality into the body.
【Garlic spinach】
Ingredients: spinach, garlic, matsutake mushroom
Specific steps:
Step 1: Treat the spinach, cut the roots for it, add more water, clean the spinach and take it out to control the water. Then cut it into 4~5cm pieces, and pack the stems and leaves separately.
Step 2: Prepare extra garlic and cut it into granules and put it in a small bowl. Then adjust the sauce, add a spoonful of salt to the bowl, throw away the sugar, add a little matsutake mushroom, then add a small spoon of cooking wine, add some light soy sauce, a spoonful of potato starch, an appropriate amount of water, and then use a spoon to stir it evenly.
Step 3: Boil the water in the pot, add a small spoon of salt, so that the spinach will be given a base taste, and then add some cooking oil, so that the blanched spinach will not change color.
Then bring the pole in, blanch it for 28 seconds, and then add the leaves. Blanch it on high heat for 15 seconds, then we use a colander to remove it and control the water. Fill it with spinach in a large bowl
Step 4: Heat the pot, add a little cooking oil, add the chopped garlic after the oil is hot, stir-fry it to make it fragrant, stir-fry it for a while, about 30 seconds for it, and release all the fragrance of garlic to it. You can add the seasoned sauce, then stir-fry evenly, fry the soup until it is a little sticky, and fry until it is thick.
Step 5: Drizzle the juice over the spinach. Such a garlic spinach is ready, the garlic fragrance is strong, it looks very appetizing, and it is very simple to make, friends who like it can try it according to this method.
Conclusion: Spinach can be eaten in a variety of ways, either stir-fried or made into soup or cold salad. However, it is important to note that spinach contains oxalic acid, which can affect calcium absorption. Therefore, it is best to blanch it in hot water before cooking to remove most of the oxalic acid.