What is the most nourishing food for the slight cold solar terms?

The slight cold solar term is in March and September, and there is a folk saying that "a chicken in September every year will keep you healthy in the coming year". Chinese medicine believes that chicken is warm, contains a lot of vitamins and high-quality protein, and has low fat content, which is easily digested and absorbed by human body. The nutritional value of chicken is higher than red meat. Medical research has confirmed that eating chicken can improve human immunity. Eating chicken in winter can not only provide rich nutrition for the body, but also effectively resist the cold and not breed internal fire. It is a good tonic in winter. There are many ways to cook chicken, but stew and soup are the most nourishing way to eat.

polished glutinous rice

Cantonese people want to eat glutinous rice on a cold day. This is mainly because the slight cold is in the middle of winter, so it is necessary to eat some warm food to resist the cold, while glutinous rice is warm, which has the effect of tonifying the middle warmer, benefiting qi and nourishing the spleen and stomach, and has a good nourishing effect on spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Eating glutinous rice in moderation in winter can keep out the cold and keep warm.

The practice of glutinous rice varies from place to place, salty and sweet. Cantonese people must have sausages and bacon when cooking glutinous rice. These two things are the soul of the whole pot of glutinous rice. Specific practices:

1. Wash glutinous rice and soak it in clear water for 2 hours. If you are in a hurry, you can soak in hot water.

2. Wash the sausage and bacon and cut them into dices. After the mushrooms are soaked, cut into granules. Dice carrots and cut parsley.

3. Wash and soak the shrimp;

4. stir-fry dried peanuts;

5. Wash a proper amount of rice, mix it with the soaked glutinous rice, add fried peanuts, sausages, bacon, mushrooms, carrots and shrimps, add a proper amount of water, and cook with an electric cooker or electric pressure cooker.

6. After deflation, uncover the lid, put in the parsley section, stir all the ingredients evenly with a rice spoon, and a pot of fragrant glutinous rice will be ready.

Vegetable rice

During the slight cold, Nanjing people usually eat vegetable rice, but the content is not the same. In ancient times, the poor cooked with oil, salt and vegetables, while the people with good conditions cooked with sausage, bacon, salted duck, glutinous rice and diced ginger. In vegetable rice, glutinous rice can warm the middle warmer, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, while ginger has the functions of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, sweating and relieving exterior syndrome. Eating together can enhance the body's ability to resist cold evil.