When it comes to the Dragon Boat Festival, it seems that it is always inseparable from the two traditional delicacies of soft sticky and sweet rice dumplings and crispy steamed buns. But with the improvement of living standards, there are many
Modern people have a variety of chronic diseases caused by overnutrition or nutritional imbalance.
Whether it is zongzi with high glycemic index and calories, or traditional fried food steamed buns, it is not a delicacy that most people can enjoy with confidence. Coupled with the fact that the weather begins to be hot and dry during the Dragon Boat Festival, people are also prone to irritability and depression, and the digestive function of the stomach and intestines will also be affected, and eating these two foods is likely to "add fuel to the fire", especially for the elderly and children who are weaker.
Text/Liu Lingyan (National Grade II Public Nutritionist)
So, Dragon Boat Festival, what better choice do we have?
The Dragon Boat Festival delicacy is mugwort cake
In fact, there is also a traditional seasonal delicacy - mugwort cake, maybe we can eat more bites.
Fresh mugwort leaves are plucked from mugwort, boiled slightly in boiling water, fished out, rinsed with cold water, mashed, removed the coarse residue, and then the glutinous rice noodles and mashed mugwort leaves are mixed with warm water and evenly, kneaded into small doses, kneaded, steamed in a pot, and a fresh and delicious seasonal pastry is made. This mugwort cake made with fresh mugwort leaves can remove the heat of the summer heat and strengthen the spleen and dampness.
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Wormwood is closely related to the lives of Chinese. The Compendium of Materia Medica says that wormwood "grows in the ground in the early spring, with artemisia stems and white leaves, and it is better to have short seedlings."
On March 3, May 5, the leaves were harvested and dried." Every time on the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, people always pick wormwood and put it at home to "avoid evil", and the dried wormwood can be soaked in water to fumigate the body, which can disinfect and relieve itching. Wormwood has a special fragrance, the air is humid during the Dragon Boat Festival, and the fragrance of mugwort leaves can remove poisonous gas, remove dirt, purify the air, and folk are known as "hanging wormwood people, wearing Ai hu, drinking wormwood, eating wormwood cake, smoking wormwood leaves" customs.
Wormwood is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine, according to China's earliest medical book "Fifty-two Sick Formulas" recorded, mugwort taste bitter and hard, temperate, return to the liver, spleen, kidney meridian, with evil and detoxification, cold and wet and other effects.
In the summer, adults and children have prickly heat or water sores, and boiling water with dried mugwort leaves will definitely be able to "wash it". People eat grains and grains, the body occasionally accumulates evil poison for a long time, the drug can only cure the surface, internal consumption can cure the root cause, the Dragon Boat Festival, choose the seasonal food made of mugwort leaves, dredge the meridians, get rid of the evil poison, is the most appropriate.
Early summer humid heat is getting worse, coupled with stress and emotional reasons, many women are also prone to chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, Chinese medicine believes that its pathogenesis is external evil into the body, stasis in the uterus, resulting in dysfunction of the internal organs, meridian obstruction, often eat mugwort cake can eliminate stasis, remove evil and dampness, help improve the symptoms of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease. In addition, mugwort is also one of the most commonly used moxibustion materials, and there is still a proverb that "the family has three years of mugwort, and langzhong is not used".
Pattern renovation: mung bean stuffed mugwort cake
Ingredients: 500 grams of glutinous rice flour, 100 grams of mung beans, 100 grams of mugwort, an appropriate amount of sugar (diabetics can not put it).
Method: wash the mung beans, soak them in warm water and peel them, steam them and pound them into a filling, which can be seasoned with an appropriate amount of sugar; blanch the mugwort, squeeze out the water, mash and remove the coarse residue; mix the processed mugwort mud and glutinous rice flour, add the appropriate amount of water and noodles to make a smooth and soft dough; divide the dough into small agents, wrap it into mung bean filling like a bun bun, close it, and knead it; open the water pot and steam for about 15 minutes.
Efficacy: Choose the mung beans that clear heat, cool off, remove dampness and detoxify as the filling of the wormwood cake, and the therapeutic health care effect is doubled. Moreover, mung beans have a high protein content and rich dietary fiber, which can help delay the rise of blood sugar after a meal.
Mugwort leaves are also rich in dietary fiber and a variety of minerals. If you don't put sugar, this snack is especially suitable for diabetics to partially replace the daily staple food, and the cold food effect is better. During the Dragon Boat Festival, when you go out to qingqing, don't forget to pick a few handfuls of mugwort and come back to make a healthy seasonal snack for your family.
Medical Food Reference wishes you a safe and healthy Dragon Boat Festival!