What are all the traditional foods for the Little Cold Festival?

1: yellow sprouts! According to records, in China's Tianjin region in the old days there is a small cold to eat yellow sprouts custom! Yellow sprouts actually belong to a group with cabbage, is the northern greenhouse, southern open air, fall planting winter harvest of the new vegetable species! Cabbage heart yellow color, as if the shoots, so called yellow sprouts! Yellow sprouts have a very high nutritional value, tender texture, soft texture, unique flavor! Whether eaten raw or cooked, are very good!

2: chicken soup! In our country, Nanjing, there is "nine eat a chicken," the habit of tonic, so the people's table on the day of the small cold naturally less chicken soup! Chicken is rich in fat protein, and fat content is relatively low, very easy to be absorbed by the body! Small cold season is at the lowest temperature of the season, this time to drink some chicken soup is enough to ward off the cold, but also will not nourish the internal fire, it is a small cold nourishing good products!

3: glutinous rice! Guangzhou, China, small cold custom of eating glutinous rice, glutinous rice, rice, bacon, preserved sausage, peanuts simmering together, and then finally add some white onion mixed in the rice to eat! In fact, small cold eat glutinous rice is a moral, it is said that small cold day eat glutinous rice can be from the beginning of the year to the taste of the year are warm. If you have time you one to try!

4: Mutton! It's true that you can eat lamb in winter, but from a nutritional point of view, lamb is rich in protein, fat, vitamins, calcium, zinc and many other minerals; if you have more time, you can try

Try lamb stewed with radish, lamb stewed with yam, shabu-shabu, cumin lamb, and so on!

5: Laba congee! In fact, not only small cold this day to drink Laha congee, after the winter solstice to the beginning of spring, every morning to drink a bowl of hot porridge is really good! In folklore, small cold this day is to drink Laha congee, the ancients believe that drinking Laha congee can stimulate appetite, increase body heat, can play the effect of cold and warmth!

6: vegetable rice! In the Nanjing area of China, there is a small cold to eat "vegetable rice" custom! The so-called vegetable rice is stir-fried with vegetables and rice, you can freely collocation, add some salted meat, sausage, ham, plate duck ding and so on, there is no special requirements, generally according to the family's taste to choose the right!