Summer special food recommendation

Summer is the ripe season for grapefruit. Grapefruit is sweet and sour, refreshing, and many people like it. Pomelo peel and grapefruit flower can also be used as medicine, which is called "canned natural fruit". Grapefruit is rich in nutrition and contains protein, vitamins, organic acids and minerals necessary for human body, which is incomparable to other fruits. Traditional Chinese medicine also believes that grapefruit is sweet and sour, cold in nature, has the effects of regulating qi to relieve depression, moistening lung and clearing intestine, enriching blood and strengthening spleen, and can help digestion, regulate qi and dissipate stagnation.

Prevent autumn dryness in summer. Autumn dryness is the most harmful to body fluids. Eating more vegetables, fruits and other foods containing a lot of water can supplement body fluids, promote fluid production and moisten dryness, and clear away heat and relieve constipation. In addition, you should eat more products that clear dryness and nourish yin, such as honey, lotus root, tremella, lily, sesame, pear, spinach and kelp. In summer, the diet should be light, eat less greasy meat, and don't eat or eat less hot food such as spicy fried food. The recommended health recipes for this solar term are:

Asparagus and perch soup material

Asparagus, lean meat, squid board 100g each, a little shredded ginger.

condiment

Appropriate amount of salt, half a teaspoon of monosodium glutamate, a little pepper and 2 teaspoons of cooking wine.

working methods

1, asparagus is washed and cut into sections for later use; Wash lean meat and cut into pieces for later use.

2. Cut the squid board, then blanch it in boiling water, remove it and drain it.

3. Heat the oil pan, stir-fry shredded ginger and pork, cook cooking wine, pour 6 cups of clear soup to boil, and finally add other materials. Cook the seasoning until it tastes good.

Efficacy: Asparagus is sweet, cold in nature, enters the lung and stomach meridians, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and diuresis. This soup is cool, reduces fire, nourishes yin and stomach, and has a certain effect on relieving autumn irritability.

Chicken and quail eggs

20 quail eggs, chicken breast150g, ham10g and 3 eggs.

condiment

500 ml of chicken soup, 30 g of cooking wine, monosodium glutamate 1 g, 2 g of salt and 50 g of water starch.

working methods

Cooked quail eggs, shelled; Eggs turn yellow and remain clear; Chop the ham for later use.

Wash the chicken breast, remove the tendons, beat it into paste, put it in a bowl, and mix it with cooking wine, salt 1g, water starch 15g, egg white and water 30ml.

Put the net pot on the fire, pour chicken soup, add quail eggs, boil with proper amount of salt and monosodium glutamate, and thicken with 35 grams of water starch; Slowly pour in the minced chicken and mix well. After the eggs are heated and thickened, put the oil in the minced chicken, put it in a large flat basin and sprinkle with minced ham.

Efficacy: Quail eggs are sweet and tasteless, can tonify qi and blood, and have high nutritional value. It contains more protein, vitamin B2, lecithin and iron than eggs, and contains beneficial substances such as rutin, which has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.