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Crystal Steamed Dumplings

As the saying goes, dumplings are as delicious as dumplings, and they have always been a delicacy in people's hearts, especially on New Year's holidays, when dumplings are one of the main characters on the dinner table. When the whole family gathers together to make and eat dumplings, a kind of happiness unique to the Chinese people arises, and the atmosphere of the festival is more and more warmly baked.  Dumplings are delicious, but they are also unhealthy. Generally speaking, dumplings are filled with meat, more meat, less vegetables, eat more will naturally feel more greasy, not only taste discomfort, too much intake of grease on human health is also extremely unfavorable. Therefore, many people like to eat dumplings when dipped in vinegar to ease. In fact, in addition to dipping vinegar, we can also eat dumplings at the same time drink some can go greasy health drinks, can also receive good results.  There are a lot of healthy beverages that have the effect of removing grease, such as tea, fruit juice, etc., but the most suitable with dumplings is still the traditional drink of our country, sour plum soup. Sour plum soup is made from several natural ingredients such as plums and hawthorns, and is rich in trace elements, crude fiber, and other nutrients, especially the phytochemicals contained therein, which are extremely effective in helping the body get rid of oil and grease. And although the taste of sour plum soup is sour, but it belongs to the authentic alkaline drink, meat and other acidic food eat more, ingested too much fat, resulting in blood acidification. Drinking some sour plum soup will also help us to maintain the balance of blood pH value in our body. Moreover, the sweet and sour flavor of plum soup is more suitable for drinking with dishes than bitter tea and sweet fruit juice.  In addition to being the perfect partner for dumplings in terms of health, sour plum soup is also a representative of our traditional diet, along with dumplings. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there was already a prototype of sour plum soup, and in the Qing Dynasty, sour plum soup became the daily health drink of the royal family. And sour plum soup by the nine Dragon Zhai from the palace to the folk, also by the people's popularity, has become the Beijing flavor of one of the representatives of traditional food. Therefore, eating dumplings with sour plum soup is not only healthy, but also reflects the essence of our traditional Chinese food culture.