What traditional food do you eat in the slight cold season?

First, the traditional food suitable for eating in the mild cold season

1, vegetable rice

Little cold solar terms, old Nanjing pays attention to eating vegetable rice, and its source is estimated to be related to the cold weather. The so-called vegetable rice is to fry vegetables and rice together, and add bacon, sausage, ham and diced salted duck. Among them, short-legged yellow duck and salted duck are famous specialties in Nanjing, which are very distinctive in Nanjing.

In the past, these seemingly ordinary things were only enjoyed by people with rich family conditions. People with poor economic conditions are unwilling to add meat, so they bury a spoonful of lard in the vegetable rice. At that time, there was not much oil and water in food at ordinary times, so "lard bibimbap" tasted particularly fragrant.

2, Laba porridge

One of the important folk customs in the slight cold solar terms is to eat "Laba porridge". Before and after the slight cold solar terms, eating such rich hot porridge at this time can not only stimulate appetite, but also increase calories in the body, thus warming the stomach and dispelling cold.

Yanjing Chronicle records that Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut, red cowpea and peeled jujube paste. And dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and miscellaneous grapes for external use. All the above foods are sweet and warm, and have the effects of regulating the spleen and stomach, invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, expelling cold and strengthening the body, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Friends can choose the ingredients of Laba porridge according to their eating habits and physical condition, and the cooked Laba porridge will be more suitable for their physique.

3. Mutton

"Slight cold" is the coldest time of the year, and people are easily attacked by the cold. The quickest and most effective way to resist the cold is not a cotton-padded coat, but a bowl of steaming mutton soup. Mutton is the most cost-effective warm tonic food. If you cook it with some angelica, yam and carrot, and season it with green onions and ginger, it is recommended to eat it once a week, which will not get angry and make winter warm.

Angelica and ginger mutton soup with "Angelica and ginger" as the main raw material has the effects of warming the middle warmer, enriching blood, dispelling cold and strengthening the body, and is very suitable for white-collar workers with chronic fatigue and severe sub-health state; And people with weak waist and knees, who are afraid of cold and cold, are suitable for tonic "sheep kidney and red ginseng porridge", which has the effect of benefiting qi and strengthening yang.