Tomorrow's winter solstice, no matter how busy you are, you must remember to "eat 4 fresh and nibble 1 fruit", supplement nutrition, and spend the winter healthily!
Tomorrow is the winter solstice solar term, and there is a saying in the folk that "the winter solstice is as big as the year", and there are many traditional Xi customs. The winter solstice is also the beginning of the ninth year, the coldest time of the year is coming, we should pay attention to keeping warm and cold, but also timely tonic to supplement the body with nutrients. The winter solstice folk have the Xi of worshipping ancestors and feasting.
What to eat on the winter solstice?The old tradition is to eat 4 things, gnaw 1 fruit, supplement nutrition, and survive the winter healthily, don't understand.
1. Dumplings. As the saying goes, "if you don't serve a dumpling bowl on the winter solstice, no one cares if you freeze your ears", eating dumplings on the winter solstice can replenish nutrients and calories and prevent chilblains.
Recommended method: [pork three fresh dumplings].
Prepare pork, shrimp, leeks, salt, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, pepper, sesame oil, green onion and ginger.
1. Finely chop the green onion and ginger, wash and peel the pork, chop it into meat filling, add the minced green onion and ginger, add an appropriate amount of salt, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, pepper, sesame oil, beat an egg, stir clockwise with chopsticks for 5 minutes, and set aside for later use.
2. Wash the shrimp and cut them into small cubes. Pick and wash the leeks, chop them into minced pieces, put them in the pork filling, add the shrimp, then add an appropriate amount of salt, pepper, sesame oil, and stir well with chopsticks.
3. Add flour and water to form a smooth dough, roll it out into a dumpling wrapper, wrap it in the pork three fresh filling, and knead it into a dumpling. Add water to boil, put in a spoonful of salt, add the dumplings and boil three times, all float up and then remove and eat.
2. Mutton. Mutton is warm, can dispel wind and cold, complement body deficiency, is a good product for winter nourishment.
Recommended method: [Lamb stew with radish].
Prepare lamb, white radish, carrots, star anise, cinnamon, ginger, garlic sprouts, salt, cooking oil, chicken essence, light soy sauce, and cooking wine.
1. Cut the mutton into small pieces, clean it, pot it under cold water, add ginger slices and cooking wine, cook for 5 minutes on high heat, remove and rinse off the blood foam, and drain the water. Heat oil, add lamb cubes, and stir-fry over low heat until golden brown.
2. Add star anise, cinnamon and ginger to stir-fry until fragrant, pour in cooking wine, light soy sauce and stir-fry to color, pour in an appropriate amount of boiling water to cover the mutton, boil over high heat and simmer for 40 minutes. Peel the white radish and carrot, cut it into large pieces, peel and wash the garlic sprouts and mince them.
3. Add white radish and carrot, continue to simmer for 20 minutes, add an appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence after the radish is stewed, stir evenly and sprinkle with garlic sprouts, and then get out of the pot.
3. Glutinous rice balls. Winter solstice solar terms, the Xi of the north and the south are different, northerners eat dumplings, southerners eat Lantern Festival, "round" means "reunion" and "complete", and eating tangyuan on the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice round".
Recommended method: [rice wine pumpkin dumplings].
Prepare pumpkin, glutinous rice flour, red bean paste, rice wine, red dates, goji berries, brown sugar, sugar, starch.
1. Peel and wash the pumpkin, cut it into thin slices, put it in a steamer and steam it with water for 20 minutes, take it out after steaming, add an appropriate amount of sugar, press it into a pumpkin puree with a spoon, add an appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour, and form a smooth dough.
2. Roll the dough into small pieces, roll it into small balls, flatten it and wrap it in the bean paste filling, knead it round after closing, and roll it on a layer of glutinous rice flour to prevent sticking. Add water to the pot and bring to a boil, add red dates, brown sugar, rock sugar, add glutinous rice balls and cook for a while.
3. After all the glutinous rice balls float up, add an appropriate amount of rice wine and stir well, continue to cook for 3 minutes, pour in water starch to thicken, and finally pour in wolfberries and cook for one minute to turn off the heat.
Fourth, eight treasure rice.
Babao rice is made with glutinous rice and a variety of dried fruits, which can replenish qi and blood, and is an excellent delicacy for winter tonic.
Recommended method: [Brown Sugar Eight Treasure Rice].
Prepare rice, glutinous rice, brown sugar, red dates, raisins, dried cranberries, fruit dan peel, and dates.
1. Rice and glutinous rice are 1:1, put them in a bowl and wash them, soak them in water for 2 hours, put them in a rice cooker, add an appropriate amount of water, and steam them in rice cooking mode. Cut the fruit dan peel into small pieces, and cut the red dates into small pieces.
2. Brush the bowl with a layer of oil, put a date in the middle of the bottom, sprinkle a circle of raisins, a circle of dried cranberries, put a few fruit dan skin strips, pour in the soaked rice and compact, sprinkle a layer of brown sugar, and place a circle of red dates along the edge of the bowl (skin facing outward).
3. Spread another layer of glutinous rice and brown sugar, sprinkle with raisins, and finally cover with glutinous rice compact, sprinkle with dried fruits, and cover a plate. Add water to the steamer and boil, put in the eight-treasure rice and steam for half an hour, and then put it upside down on the plate after it comes out of the pot.
In addition to eating these 4 traditional foods, there is also one kind of fruit to eat, and that is pears. Pears can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, produce jin and dissolve phlegm, and have a good health care effect in the dry and cold winter.
Recommended method: [Stewed pear with rock sugar].
Prepare pear, white fungus, wolfberry, rock sugar, salt, and water.
1. Wash the pear with salt, remove the skin, and dig out the pear core in the middle for later use. Soak the white fungus in advance, wash it and cut it into pieces, put it in a stew pot, add the pear and pear skin, add water, cover and simmer for 40 minutes. Take out the pear peel, add wolfberries and rock sugar, and continue to simmer for 10 minutes.
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