The "red-billed green parrot" that the "Vegetable Health Golden Classic" to introduce to you today is spinach. Because the spinach root is light red, it is called "red-billed green parrot". Spinach has a high nutritional value and is the most nutritious of green leafy vegetables, which can regulate and strengthen the body from many aspects. The ancient Arabs called it the "king of vegetables", and Western countries also listed spinach as a nutritious vegetable variety, which is a good product of medicinal and food homology.
spinach
Spinach, also known as spinach, parrot, red root, and wyvern, is an annual or biennial herb of spinach in the family Spinachidae, which is eaten with leaves and young stems. Native to Persia, it was cultivated 2,000 years ago. Spinach main root is developed, fleshy root red, sweet and edible. Spinach is a hardy vegetable and a long-day plant. In northern China, there are also winter sown and harvested in the following spring, commonly known as spinach. Spinach is characterized by its ability to withstand cold and low temperatures, sowing seeds at minus 5 °C, and freezing to death at minus 11 °C, so it has become a rare variety of green leafy vegetables in winter and spring.
Therapeutic effect
1. Chinese medicine believes that spinach is cool, spicy and sweet, can tonify and stop bleeding, benefit the five internal organs, and pass through the blood veins.
2. Spinach contains a large amount of plant crude fiber, which has the effect of promoting intestinal peristalsis, which is conducive to defecation, and can promote pancreatic secretion and help digestion.
3. The carotene contained in spinach is transformed into vitamin A in the human body, which can maintain normal vision and the health of epithelial cells, increase the ability to prevent infectious diseases, and promote children's growth and development.
4. Spinach is rich in carotene, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, and a certain amount of iron, vitamin E, ruevolin, coenzyme Q10 and other beneficial ingredients, which can supply the human body with a variety of nutrients; the iron contained in it has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on iron deficiency anemia.
5. The 6-hydroxymethyl butterfly dione and trace element substances in spinach can promote human metabolism and enhance physical health. Eating spinach in large quantities can reduce the risk of stroke.
6. Spinach extract has the effect of promoting the proliferation of cultured cells, which is both anti-aging and enhances youthful vitality.
Recommended recipe recipes
1. Spinach lamb liver soup
Ingredients: spinach, lamb liver
Seasoning: sesame oil, ginger, green onion, chicken essence, soy sauce
Preparation Method:
(1) Wash and cut the spinach into sections and slice the lamb liver.
(2) Cut the green onion into green onions and finely chop the ginger.
(3) Add 750 ml of water to the pot, boil and put in the lamb liver.
(4) After cooking slightly, add spinach, add green onion, minced ginger, chicken essence, soy sauce and sesame oil, and after boiling, it can be eaten.
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2. Spinach roll with curd skin
Ingredients: fresh tofu skin, spinach, shredded carrots, shredded fungus, egg
Seasoning: sesame oil, salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate
(1) Soak the tofu skin in water for 10 to 15 minutes, then remove the controlled dry water.
(2) Wash the spinach, rinse the water, and let it cool immediately after the water, remove the cut section, and control the excess water.
(3) Wash and peel the carrots, cut them into strips; wash and cut the shreds after soaking the fungus, and then rinse the carrot shreds and the fungus shreds separately and rinse them.
(4) Mix spinach, shredded carrots and fungus to remove moisture, add salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil, and set aside.
(5) Roll the mixed ingredients into the tofu skin, make a roll, spread the egg liquid on the side, steam for about 5 minutes, and then take out the knife and cut it into sections.
3. Spinach mixed with lotus slices
Ingredients: spinach, fresh lotus root
Seasoning: salt, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate
(1) Wash the spinach and blanch it in boiling water; peel and slice the fresh lotus root, and add it to boiling water to break off.
(2) Add salt, sesame oil and MONOS glutamate to the above two things and mix well.
4. Spinach mustard heap
Ingredients: spinach, carrots, cooked sesame seeds
Seasoning: Edible vegetable oil, sesame oil, green mustard, sesame paste, vinegar, salt, chicken essence
(1) Blanch the spinach in water and put it in cool water and cut into small pieces.
(2) Dice the carrots and sauté in a frying pan.
(3) Sesame oil, green mustard, tahini, vinegar, salt, chicken essence into a sauce.
(4) Drizzle the (3) sauce on the spinach pile, and then sprinkle the sesame seeds and carrot grains.
5. Chilled spinach
Ingredients: spinach, chicken thighs, vermicelli
Seasoning: salt, vinegar, sugar, sesame oil
(1) Wash the spinach, cook it in boiling water, and put it in cool water to cool it.
(2) Squeeze out the water in the spinach and cut into segments.
(3) The vermicelli is soaked in warm water to soften, put into boiling water to cook, then put into cool water to cool, filter dry, and cut short with scissors.
(4) Cook the chicken thighs beforehand, peel and deboned, and tear the chicken into strips.
(5) Put the spinach, vermicelli, and chicken shredded together.
(6) Add salt, vinegar, sugar and sesame oil and mix well.
Brief introduction
From the perspective of vegetable health, the "Vegetable Health Golden Dictionary" refers to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Materia Medica Truth-seeking", "Materia Medica" and other medical monographs in China, and at the same time refers to a large number of literature, comprehensively and systematically analyzes the 126 kinds of vegetables that the people often eat, and discusses the basic situation, nutritional components, medicinal effects, and therapeutic effects of each vegetable in more detail, and recommends some medicinal recipes and health recipes.
Author of this book
Zhang Tianzhu, Doctor of Engineering in Agricultural Bio-environmental Engineering, Professor of China Agricultural University, Director of Institute of Agricultural Planning Science of China Agricultural University, General Manager of Anhui Zhongnong Futong Institute of Agricultural Planning Science. He has long been engaged in the research of facility agriculture and agricultural planning, and is committed to the construction of production, learning and research promotion platform, and has presided over the planning of a number of major agricultural park projects. Extensive experience in the management of agricultural enterprises. His major works include "Cultivation Technology of Rare and Exotic Wild Vegetables", "Planning and Case Analysis of Modern Agricultural Parks", "Planning, Design and Construction of Greenhouse Engineering", etc.