What to eat in autumn?

Autumn equinox solar terms are suitable for eating: mutton, autumn crab, duck, fish, autumn lotus root and so on.

1, mutton

After the autumnal equinox, the weather gradually turned cold, and mutton was the first choice. You can eat some mutton in time in autumn, which can be cut into white, braised in brown sauce and boiled in soup. For example, in Guangdong, people mix mutton brisket with skin.

Cook mushrooms and Zhu Zhi on charcoal fire to make stewed mutton; Hand-grabbed mutton in Inner Mongolia, large pieces of flesh and blood are thrown into the water and cooked directly, which tastes just as delicious.

2, autumn crab

The autumn wind makes the crab's feet itch. "The crabs in Jiangcun are fat when cooked, and their claws are as green as halberds." In the autumn equinox, crab meat is fat. What crabs are eaten everywhere, such as river crabs, Jiangsu hairy crabs, Shanghai Chongming clear water crabs, Hong Kong butter crabs and so on. And the crab is full of shells when it is mature; Sea crabs, such as Portunus Zhoushan, Laizhou, Eriocheir hainanensis and Scylla serrata in Fujian, are fat and sweet.

3. Duck meat

Duck meat is delicious in autumn, and it is dry and irritable in autumn. Eating duck meat is a good choice. In Nanjing, it is very popular to eat "osmanthus duck" every holiday season. The salted duck in August of the lunar calendar has the best quality, so it is called osmanthus duck.

4. Fish

Autumn is the season of all kinds of fish fattening. For example, autumn is the best time to eat bass and crucian carp. Autumn is also the season to eat fresh yellow croaker. Pomfret meat is thick and prickly, and it tastes delicious. Braised and steamed are delicious.

5. Autumn lotus root

There is a folk saying that "lotus is a treasure, and autumn lotus root is the most helpful." After the autumnal equinox, the weather became dry. Lotus root is delicious with ribs or peanuts in season.