Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - What to eat in summer?

What to eat in summer?

1, yam.

It is rich in starch, protein, saponins and other nutrients. Eating it helps to tonify kidney and replenish essence, and also helps digestion. Eating in summer and solar terms helps to improve the body's immunity and reduce the probability of getting sick.

It is suggested that you can buy peeled ones directly, slice them and stir fry them directly after you buy them, and you can eat them when they are cooked. Or cut into small pieces for stew, or of course cut into discs and cook porridge with rice.

2, sweet potato.

There are notes in ancient medical books that sweet potato has the effect of "tonifying deficiency and strengthening kidney yin", which means that eating it can help people who are weak to tonify, so that the body can slowly recover to be strong and no longer weak. It's getting cold in autumn, and people who are weak are prone to catch a cold by blowing the wind casually, so be sure to eat sweet potatoes for tonic.

If you are afraid of trouble, wash the sweet potato, put it on the shelf, steam it on the fire and eat it. Of course, if you like cooking, you can peel it, wash it, cut it into pieces, put it in the pressure cooker with the washed rice, and then add water to cook porridge.

3. glutinous rice.

Drinking glutinous rice porridge in autumn will have a good nourishing effect on the body. Because it is warm and sweet, it enters the spleen, kidney and lung meridians, and can nourish the healthy qi of the human body, thus achieving the effects of invigorating the spleen and benefiting qi, promoting fluid production and stopping sweating.

For women who are afraid of the cold, after eating, the whole body is hot, helping them to keep out the cold and nourish. Therefore, some glutinous rice porridge foods should be cooked in autumn.

Glutinous rice porridge's practice: Prepare appropriate amount of glutinous rice and red beans, white sugar or rock sugar. Then wash the glutinous rice and red beans, put them in a pressure cooker, add water, cover them, and adjust them to a porridge stall for stewing. If you don't think the porridge stall is cooked badly enough, you can find a stall that stews for a long time. Jump to the heat preservation and wait for half an hour, because then the lid can be opened. After opening it, pour it into the saucepan and cook for a few minutes, then you can add some pickles to eat.