The practice of Lycium barbarum

Spring is coming. Eat some Chinese wolfberry for tonic. Besides soaking in water, let's learn how to cook with Lycium barbarum.

Lycium barbarum is a traditional Chinese medicine, which has many functions such as nourishing liver and kidney, benefiting eyesight and so on.

Chinese wolfberry is often used by doctors in past dynasties to treat blurred vision and night blindness caused by liver blood deficiency and kidney yin deficiency. Recently, the British discovered the function of Lycium barbarum in delaying aging in their research.

First, medlar black sesame porridge

Ingredients: rice, glutinous rice, black sesame and medlar.

Exercise:

1. Wash the glutinous rice and soak it for several hours in advance; Lycium barbarum soaked in hair for later use.

2. Sit in a pot of water. After the water is boiled, add rice, glutinous rice and black sesame seeds and stir until the pot boils, so as not to stick to the bottom of the pot.

3. After the water boils, turn to low heat and cook slowly for about 40 minutes, while stirring several times.

When cooking is almost finished, you can turn off the fire.

5. Pour a spoonful of osmanthus when drinking.

Second, longan, medlar and osmanthus cream

Ingredients: Longan 15, Lycium barbarum 15, Osmanthus fragrans 1, Geely powder 15-20g (depending on the hardness you like), rock sugar 1, and 3-4 bowls of water.

Exercise:

1. Put longan in a small pot and cook with warm water. After boiling, turn to low heat. After cooking for about 10 minute, add the washed Lycium barbarum and crystal sugar and cook for another 5 minutes. Turn off the heat after the crystal sugar is completely melted.

2. Pour it into a large wide-mouthed container and set aside to cool. Melt gelatin powder with a small bowl of warm water, and the ratio of powder to water is about 1: 2.

3. Remember to keep stirring. After the gelatin powder is completely melted, pour it into longan water and stir well, then add 1 a little osmanthus and stir well. After longan water is completely cooled, pour it into a small bowl, cover it with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator. After about 1-2 hours, the longan soup became hard and edible.

Third, steamed Chinese wolfberry cake.

Ingredients: sticky rice flour100g, flour100g, 5 grams of baking powder, medlar and sugar.

Exercise:

1. Mix glutinous rice flour, flour, baking powder and sugar with water to make dough.

2. Press the dough into a thick dish and steam it on the plate for 5 minutes.

3. When the surface is slightly hardened, sprinkle with Lycium barbarum and steam in the pot for 10 minute.

Four, mint chrysanthemum wolfberry tea

Ingredients: mint leaves, chrysanthemum and medlar.

Practice: Put mint leaves and chrysanthemum together in a teacup and add 200ml of hot water. Add the ancient rock sugar on the market to taste.

5. Steamed chicken with mushrooms, red dates and medlar

Ingredients: chicken wings, mushrooms, red dates, medlar, garlic and onions. Marinade: raw flour, vegetable oil, cooking wine, salt, chicken powder, soy sauce, sugar and a little sesame oil.

Exercise:

1. Wash chicken wings, drain water, cut into small pieces, put them in an enlarged bowl, add marinade and mix well, marinate for at least half an hour, preferably overnight.

2. Wash mushrooms, red dates and medlar; Soak mushrooms and red dates in advance respectively.

3. Shred mushrooms, cut red dates into strips, and mix with medlar into marinated chicken pieces and mix well.

4. Shred ginger, cut garlic (one or two cloves of garlic is enough), and mix into the marinated chicken pieces.

5. After about 15 to 20 minutes, spread it evenly on the plate and steam it for 12 minutes; The time can be adjusted according to the number and size of chicken nuggets.

6. Sprinkle chopped green onion one minute before the chicken is steamed.

Sixth, steamed eggs with medlar.

Ingredients: 2 eggs, 300ml vegetarian soup, Lycium barbarum 10 g, and 30 g diced mushrooms.

Exercise:

1. Take a steaming bowl, add the eggs into the vegetarian soup and stir well, then pour them into a sieve and carefully filter them for later use.

2. Put the medlar and diced mushrooms into the egg mixture and stir.

3. Take a steamer, boil the water in the steamer, put it in a steaming bowl, cover the lid, and steam on medium heat for 15 minutes until cooked.

Seven, steamed wolfberry tofu recipe

Ingredients: 2 pieces of tofu, 2 ounces of pork, a little medlar, salt, soy sauce, cooking wine, pepper, cornmeal and water.

Exercise:

1. Chop pork into minced meat, add salt, soy sauce, cooking wine, pepper and cornflour, and mix well for later use.

2. Put the tofu on a plate, cut it into small pieces, and put minced meat and a medlar on each piece.

3. Fill the pot with water, bring it to a boil, put the tofu in the pot, steam it on high fire for 13 minutes, and then pour the excess soup from the plate into the bowl. Add some water, salt, soy sauce, sugar and corn flour to make a sauce.

4. Heat the oil and saute the ginger slices, then pour the sauce into the pot to boil and pour it on the steamed tofu.

Eight, medlar pudding

Ingredients: 200 grams of pure milk, 25 grams of sugar, 2 eggs and 20 grams of medlar.

Exercise:

1. Add sugar to the milk and heat it with an induction cooker to melt the sugar and stir it evenly.

2. Add medlar, simmer for a while, and leave the fire.

3. When the milk is not hot, sift out the medlar.

4. Beat the eggs well, add them to the milk and stir well.

5. Stir well and then sieve twice.

6. Pour the pudding liquid into the mold and pierce the bubbles on the surface with a toothpick.

7. Put the mold filled with pudding liquid into the baking tray, and add water to the baking tray, which is about two-thirds of the mold.

8. Put it into a preheated oven and bake it in water bath 170 degrees for 25 minutes.

9. Decorate the baked pudding with some Chinese wolfberry.