Eating vegetarian food in the New Year has a long history in our country. According to the Qing Palace archives, the first meal of the longest-lived emperor in Chinese history, Qianlong, ate vegetarian dumplings on the first day of the first lunar month, not only eating vegetarian for the New Year, but also eating vegetarian food. Vegetarian food is good for health, especially the elderly who live in the city for a long time, usually less activity, excess nutrition, often lack of vitamins, fiber and trace elements in the diet, insisting on eating two or three meals a week vegetarian food is of great benefit.
Especially during the festival, the consumption of fish and meat increases, and eating vegetarian food in moderation has a positive effect on preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, limiting the intake of cholesterol and saturated fatty acids, maintaining the acid-base balance in the human body, and promoting health and longevity. Nutritionists believe that the most important thing to eat a vegetarian diet is reasonable collocation and scientific cooking. Here are a few festive vegetarian feast recipes to choose from.
01 Family reunion
Ingredients: 500 grams of winter melon, 100 grams of broccoli, 50 grams of grass mushrooms, lion's head mushrooms, tea tree mushrooms, bailing mushrooms, tomato sauce, salt, vegetable oil 25 grams.
Method: Peel the winter melon, cut it into a 12 cm high round, remove the seeds, remove the seeds, steam, remove the roots of the 4 kinds of mushrooms, wash them, put them into a frying pan, add salt, tomato sauce to taste, hook the mustard, mix well, and pour into the steamed winter melon; cut the broccoli into the petal shape of a flower, blanch in boiling water, and place around the winter melon.
Suitable: This dish can supplement the spleen and stomach, help digestion, improve kidney essence, and has the effect of moisturizing the lungs and dissolving stasis, clearing heat and water, and is rich in vitamins and ergosterols and other substances, suitable for diabetes, ulcer disease, low immunity patients to eat.
02 Boom boom
Ingredients: 500 grams of lotus root, 50 grams of red dates, 100 grams of glutinous rice, 50 grams of chestnuts, osmanthus flowers, honey, red yeast rice, soy sauce, salt, rock sugar.
Method: Wash and pit the red dates, chop them like rice; peel the chestnuts and chop them; wash the glutinous rice, soak them in water for 30 minutes and then fish them out; wash and peel the lotus roots; mix the glutinous rice, chestnuts and crushed dates into the lotus holes, put them into the pot, add about 1500 liters of water, then add rock sugar and red yeast rice, cook for 2 to 3 hours, until the lotus is crispy, take out the slices and plate them. Add 50 ml of water, add honey, osmanthus flowers, salt and soy sauce to form a juice, bring to a boil, and pour over the sliced lotus.
Suitable: Lotus is rich in a variety of vitamins, cooked to eat can strengthen the spleen and appetizer, nourish the yin and nourish the blood, stop diarrhea and solidify the sperm; chestnuts have the effect of nourishing the stomach and spleen, enhancing appetite, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the muscles; red dates can replenish the spleen and stomach, nourish the blood and calm the spirit. This dish has the effect of enhancing the body's immunity, calming and calming the nerves, and is suitable for the middle-aged and elderly people to eat.
03 Industrious and happy
Ingredients: 50 grams of celery, 300 grams of tofu, 2 grams of fungus, salt, monosodium glutamate, vegetable oil, ginger, pepper and other seasonings.
Method: Wash the celery, put in salt boiling water, fish out and dice; cut the tofu into 3 cm cubes; wood ear foam hair, minced; oil pot, stir-fry seasoning, add about 200 ml of water, add tofu blocks, wood ear fungus, salt, simmer for 3 minutes, add diced celery, monosodium glutamate, hook, drizzle sesame oil to serve.
Suitable: tofu is rich in protein, celery is rich in vitamins, fungus is rich in a variety of trace elements, the three are matched, rich in nutrients, easy to digest and absorb.
04 Four flat and eight stable
Ingredients: 500 grams of tofu, 10 grams of kelp, salt, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, sugar, ginger, garlic juice, red oil.
Directions: Cut the tofu into 3 cm thick, 6 cm square pieces, soak in 3% salt water for 10 minutes, remove and steam for 10 minutes, place on the plate in a polygonal cone; seaweed foam, steamed, chopped; heat in a wok, put about 50 ml of water, add minced kelp and salt, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, sugar, ginger, garlic juice, red oil and other spices, boil and pour on the tofu.
Suitable: Tofu can replace animal meat to provide high-quality protein for the human body, kelp is rich in iodine, this dish is suitable for the elderly who are weak and weak.
05 Everything went well
Ingredients: 200 g sweet corn cob, 50 g carrots, 100 g sweet potatoes, 100 g kelp knots, salt to taste.
Directions: Peel the carrots and sweet potatoes, cut into hob pieces, cut the corn into 5 cm long pieces, wash the kelp knots; put the above 4 kinds of food into a casserole, add about 1000 ml of water, bring to a boil over high heat, reduce the heat and simmer for about 50 minutes, add salt to taste.
Suitable: This dish is rich in carotene, a variety of vitamins and other nutrients, with liver and eyes, disease and longevity and other health care functions, suitable for obesity, constipation, hyperlipidemia to eat.
06 Full of spring colors
Ingredients: Cherry tomatoes 50 g, cabbage 50 g, red bell pepper 25 g, lettuce 25 g, purple cabbage 25 g, cold melon 50 g, salad dressing 50 g, tomato sauce 25 g, salt to taste.
Method: Wash the above vegetables separately, soak them in 5% brine for 20 minutes, drain the water, cut into small pieces, and put them into a large bowl; take a small bowl, mix the salad dressing, tomato sauce, salt, pour into a large bowl containing vegetables, and stir well.
Suitable: This dish is rich in vitamin C, potassium, calcium, fiber, etc., with the effect of quenching thirst, stomach digestion, cool blood and flat liver, clearing heat and detoxification, and is very beneficial to the rehabilitation of hypertension, coronary heart disease and constipation.
2007 is more than a year
Ingredients: 2 shiitake mushrooms, 500 grams of sweet potatoes, 25 grams of winter shoots, salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, tomato juice, sugar, vinegar, water starch.
Method: Steam and peel the taro, add salt and MSG to puree, stir well, put in the dish to shape into a fish shape; shiitake mushrooms to root, boil in boiling water for 3 minutes, fish out and steam for 10 minutes, used to make fish eyes; heat the wok, add 100 ml of water to boil, add tomato juice, salt, sugar, vinegar, monosodium glutamate and other good taste, hook, pour on the fish, drizzle with sesame oil.
Suitable: sweet potato warm, sweet and spicy, has the effect of dredging meridians, dispelling wind and dehumidification, anti-inflammatory swelling, this dish has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on rheumatic waist and leg pain, stomach pain, gastroenteritis and other diseases.