In winter, the yin air is heavy, the temperature is low, and the winter and spring seasons make many people restless, the liver fire is surging, and they will be on fire unconsciously, just like they have entered the restless spring in advance.
At this time, we need some small fruits to help us extinguish the vigorous liver fire, nourish the liver and blood, and protect the yin of our body.
The first type: mulberries
When it comes to nourishing yin and blood, we can't help but talk about mulberries, fresh mulberries in winter are not common, but we can choose some mulberry products, dried mulberries, so what are the benefits of mulberries, so that we would rather eat it out of season?
Mulberries are aimed at the wear and tear of the "oil run out of lamps". For example, we work a lot on weekdays, stay up late, and after a long time, we are prone to fire, yin deficiency and heat, and our energy is getting worse and worse.
Mulberry is a fruit that is a natural "black chicken and white phoenix pill", which has been very beneficial since ancient times, and can replenish the yin of our liver and kidneys from the bottom.
It is also recorded in the "Suixingju Diet Recipe": "Mulberry, nourishing the liver and kidneys, congesting blood, walking briskly, relieving the deficiency wind, and clearing the void fire." As early as more than 2,000 years ago, mulberry is the tonic of the emperor of our country, and the doctors of the past dynasties are also highly respected, and it is known as the "holy fruit of the world" and "blood fruit" among the people, which can be said to be the top grade of the tonic in the top, basically suitable for all ages.
If you have any of these conditions below, you can often eat some dried mulberries or mulberry paste.
Mulberries don't look small, they are very nutritious and valuable, mulberries contain 19 kinds of amino acids, which are 4 higher than stone fruits0～6.5 times;Rich in carotene, it is 15 times;It is rich in minerals and contains 9 times more calcium than applesIt also contains mulberry polysaccharides, anthocyanins, polyphenols, resveratrol, etc.
Many people who do not sleep well and are easily upset should also eat more mulberries, which are recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and can "calm the soul and make people smart". There are black mulberries and white mulberries on the market, and black mulberries should be chosen, black into the kidneys, and purple to black is the best.
If you can't buy fresh mulberries in winter, you can use dried mulberries instead, and cook a bowl of hot mulberry porridge to drink.
Mulberry porridge
Ingredients: 100 grams of dried mulberries, 30 grams of glutinous rice, 30 grams of white rice, 10 grams of wolfberries, appropriate amount of raisins.
Method: Soak glutinous rice for about 3 hours in advance, add water, about 4 times the rice, boil glutinous rice and white rice together, pour in dried mulberries, open the lid and cook for about 5 minutes on low heat, add raisins and wolfberries, and continue to cook for 2 minutes.
The second type: persimmons
This year's winter is unusually dry, the people in the north are impetuous, although the south is rainy and rainy, but it also makes people feel that the body is dry, sleep unstable, the yin deficiency, kidney essence deficiency people, especially easy to feel this fire and dryness.
At this time, it is particularly suitable to eat some persimmons, persimmons nourish yin and moisturize dryness, shengjin cough, and nutrients are also very rich, persimmons have high vitamin content, calcium, carotene, sugar, protein, iron, iodine and other trace elements are stored in persimmons. Eating one persimmon a day can basically meet the day's needs of vitamin C.
Eat a bite of moist persimmons, sweet and moisturizing, moisturizing along the throat, but the persimmon skin is bitter, accidentally eaten, feel that the mouth will also be astringent numb, if you want to eat persimmons without astringency, you can choose to eat persimmons, and it is the persimmon season limited to winter.
And for us, that layer of persimmon cream is also a good thing to clear the heart, reduce fever and rejuvenate the body, moisten the lungs and dissolve phlegm. It is sweet and cool, melts in the mouth, and is especially good at purging fire evil. Especially for people with dry people in winter and people with itchy throats, it is very suitable for eating.
And the fresh persimmon is cold and cold, and the spleen and stomach are not suitable for friends, but the persimmon is different, it nourishes the yin of the lungs and stomach, strengthens the spleen and appetizes, and is very suitable for the body of "fire and dryness" in winter.
Persimmon cakes are generally eaten directly, we can also be like the ancients, steamed to eat, "Shijian Materia Medica" records: large persimmons put in the rice pot. Steaming is rotten. Hollow hot clothes, the best way to clear the fire and cool the blood. A little dessert in winter, it has to be.
Friends who like to drink tea can also boil a pot of persimmon tea, prepare 3 or 4 persimmons, 4 black dates or red dates, a small section of cinnamon, cut the dates in half, and boil them with an appropriate amount of water for 20 minutes. Do not wash the persimmons, cut them into small pieces, and finally turn off the heat and do not cook them for a long time, because some persimmons will have an astringent taste after being cooked for a long time.
Of course, we also found a very high-quality winter limited persimmon for everyone, and the flowing oh is the famous Fuping persimmon cake all over the country.
Many people eat persimmons that are flat, they look very shriveled and not full, and the sweetness is low when you bite into it, and it is a little astringent, but friends who have eaten Fuping persimmons know it.
Persimmon cake can really flow the heart, soft and glutinous, pinch it, the touch is like the face of the baby meat, after tearing it out, what is revealed is the orange and glutinous persimmon meat, just like the natural glutinous rice ball, soft and glutinous and elastic, sweet and delicate and fruity blend, it is very satisfying to eat.
Our Fuping persimmons, from Caocun, the core production area of Fuping, are hung in a hanging way, hanging and drying persimmons, not crowded and ventilated, and the sugar content can be evenly distributed at every angle.
The sweetness is also very high, it doesn't taste greasy, from picking fresh fruits to packaging persimmons, it takes 12 pure hand processes, so that the high-quality persimmons burst into the heart, one day earlier or one day later, it is the difference between the sky!So, the delicious taste is really worth the wait!
The soft heart in this Fuping persimmon can be eaten with a spoon, and the rich jam instantly fills the mouth after the mouth, and the sweetness lingers for a long time after eating, and the more you eat, the more enjoyable it is!
Soak a pot of inventory in the afternoon, with sweet and delicious flowing persimmons, full and satisfying, especially satisfying, this winter limited delicacy, must not be missed, nutritious and healthy.
The third type: black sesame seeds
Black sesame seeds, a small fruit, to be precise, are seeds, black into the kidneys, black sesame contains life energy, nourishing our kidney essence, liver and blood, and black sesame seeds not only nourish yin and nourish yin, the key is that it can also replenish deficiency, which is the ability that many other yin-nourishing ingredients do not have.
Shennong's Materia Medica says that it "fills the void in the main injury, replenishes the five internals, invigorates qi, grows muscles, and fills the brain and marrow." Long-lasting light body does not age. This kind of black sesame seeds, which have been called "food of eternal life" since ancient times, are good for sperm and blood, moisturize dryness, and are not expensive black sesame seeds are relatively small, and there is a layer of hard shell outside, which is difficult to cook, if we get raw sesame seeds, we must fry them first, fry them until they crackle, and they can be burnt when they are fragrant.
When eating, you should also chew and swallow slowly, and you can't swallow dates, otherwise the sesame sausage has been in it, and the nutrition is not left at all.
Usually we can beat the black sesame seeds into a paste to eat, the black sesame paste bought outside will add many other ingredients, we want to eat pure can make our own, only need to prepare 100 grams of fried glutinous rice, 150 grams of fried black sesame seeds, and an appropriate amount of white sugar.
Put the fried glutinous rice, black sesame seeds and sugar in a food processor and grind it into a powder. Add boiled water and continue to beat at high speed for 3 to 4 minutes.
There is also a kind of black sesame shortbread, which tastes crispy and dregs, prepare 200 grams of black sesame seeds, 1 egg, 8 grams of red dates, an appropriate amount of walnut kernels, and an appropriate amount of honey. (You can also put your favorite nuts).
Remove the pit and cut the red dates into small pieces, chop the nuts, fry the black sesame seeds, put all the ingredients into a basin and stir well, spread oil paper on the baking sheet, find a round mold, or use a paper cup to cut off the bottom to make round sesame cakes, preheat the oven, and put it in the oven at 150 degrees for 20 minutes (the time is adjusted according to your own oven).
Too lazy to bake it yourself, we also prepared a very pure black sesame cake for everyone, no additives, only black sesame seeds, eggs and honey as ingredients. There is no starch, no flavor and no sucrose, honey nourishes yin and nourishes, and the sweetness of eating is not greasy at all.
A bite down to burnt crispy, sesame aroma is particularly rich, chew carefully, the more you chew, the more enjoyable, the black sesame here are fried Oh, fully matured, you can rest assured, dark and oily black sesame seeds, after the egg and honey are mixed, are tightly pressed together.
First, the masters pressed it by hand, and finally pressed it with a hammer, and finally roasted it, which stimulates the aroma of eggs and sesame seeds, plus the sweetness of honey, neutralizes the slight bitterness of black sesame seeds, and is delicious and nutritious.
Break it lightly with your hands, each piece has an independent package, clean and hygienic, ready to eat out of the bag, it is very suitable for putting in the bag, eating at any time, if you want to eat some healthy snacks in winter, you can try this black sesame cake.
If you want to straighten out our liver qi while nourishing yin and nourishing yin, blood and kidney essence, you can eat black sesame seeds and roses together, many people are disturbed by dryness, upset and irritable, always want to lose their temper, and it is easy to drill the horns of the bull when encountering things, or sulk.
At this time, we might as well eat some black sesame cakes with a cup of rose tea, which can not only moisturize the body, but also straighten out the qi of our body.
Or directly prepare the can of this rose ball, open the lid and eat, each one is wrapped in tin foil, no additives, no sucrose, the ingredients are black sesame, double-petaled roses, ejiao, mulberry and maltitol, friends who can't eat sweets can also eat with confidence.
Although there are not many types of ingredients, each one is used in practice, such as black sesame seeds, which nourish qi and blood, and moisturize, and black ingredients are very suitable for winter consumption and nourishment. Ejiao nourishes qi and blood, a piece of ejiao is worth a lot of red dates and wolfberries, and mulberries are also nourishing yin and nourishing the liquid, so as not to make up for the fire on our heads. In this way, coupled with the relief of roses, there is a supplement and a discharge, and it will not let us leak too much or make up too much, just right.
This rose ball, black sesame seeds are steamed, fried and made, thoroughly matured, nutrition is well absorbed by the body, and then add ejiao, mulberry and other ingredients to blend, make a ball, the taste is delicate, when chewing, you can feel the "bursting" feeling of sesame fine particles being chewed in the mouth, the more you chew, the more fragrant it is, not greasy at all, and there will be a trace of residual fragrance of roses in the mouth after eating.
Note that this rose pill is not suitable for pregnant women, breastfeeding and children under 14 years old.