What is suitable for this hot day?

Summer is one of the four seasons. In most areas, summer is the season of hot climate and possible water shortage, and summer is the season with the highest yang, and the climate is hot and full of vitality. At this time, it is a period of metabolism, with yang as the outside and yin as the inside, and the blood circulation is correspondingly vigorous and active on the body surface. Summer health care focuses on mental adjustment, maintaining a happy and stable mood, and avoiding great sadness and joy, so as not to add fuel to the fire. Calm people and cool themselves, which can achieve the purpose of health preservation.

What to eat in summer?

The hot stimulation in summer makes the nerve center in a state of tension, the digestive ability is weakened, the appetite is not open, and the appetite is poor. Diet conditioning should focus on clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, and it is best to eat some light, greasy and digestible foods.

Fruits and vegetables: choose tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, lentils, celery, etc. Eat more fresh peaches and watermelons. Light food can not be little, both nutritious and summer.

Red bean soup: Red bean, white chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and hawthorn slices can be made into summer food by adding water, which can not only dissipate heat in human body, but also replenish water.

Mung bean soup: Take 200 grams of mung beans, add 300 ml of water, boil the soup and take the liquid to drink (add sugar as appropriate), which has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, quenching thirst, diuresis and detumescence, and clearing away heat and toxic materials.

Mung bean and sour plum tea: Mung bean100g, sour plum soup 30g, decocted in water, and added with appropriate amount of sugar, for future generations to drink after cooling. It has the effects of cooling and detoxicating, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and can be used for treating summer heat, dysphoria, dryness and heat.

Balsam pear tea: Cut fresh bitter gourd to remove pulp, mix it with tea, hang it in a ventilated place and dry it in the shade. Wash the outside, chop, and mix well with tea. Take10g every day, put it in a thermos bottle, brew it with boiling water, and drink tea instead. It can improve eyesight, detoxify and eliminate dampness.

How to make mung bean soup: pay attention to the purchase of mung beans in the past. Before cooking, pick out impurities such as stones and sand, and then soak them in clear water. When the beans are big, put them in the pot and cook for about 20 minutes, then cook them on low heat. This can not only avoid overflowing the pot, but also reduce the evaporation of nutrients by hot air.

Recommend a summer diet based on tomatoes.

Sliced chicken with tomato

Ingredients: raw chicken breast150g, tomato sauce 50g.

Accessories: 50 grams of water chestnut, egg white 1, white powder 15 grams, 2.5 grams of refined salt, 25 grams of white sugar, 250 grams of cooked lard (about 60 grams) and vinegar 10 grams.

Practice: ① Slice chicken breast, add refined salt (1g), egg white and white powder (10g) and mix well.

② Peel the water chestnut, wash it and cut it into thin slices.

(3) Put the pot on the fire, add lard and heat it for three minutes, then add the chicken slices, and then spread them with chopsticks until the chicken slices turn white and take them out.

(4) Leave a little oil in the original pot, add water, clear water, refined salt, sugar, tomato sauce and vinegar, boil, thicken with water into white powder, and pour in chicken slices and stir well.

Nutrition: contains protein 38.5g, fat 67.3g, carbohydrate 48.9g, calcium 45.5mg, phosphorus 483.5mg, iron 2.5mg, nicotinic acid 8.8mg, vitamin A 175 international unit, vitamin B1:2.5mg, vitamin B2: 2.5mg, nicotinic acid 8. ..

Functions: invigorating spleen and appetizing, resolving food stagnation, benefiting qi and nourishing blood, promoting the production of lean body, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm.

Tomato beef

Ingredients: tomato150g, beef100g.

Accessories: cabbage 150g, cooking wine 3g, refined salt 4g, monosodium glutamate1g.

Methods: ① Wash tomatoes, Chinese cabbage and beef respectively, cut tomatoes into squares, and cut Chinese cabbage and beef into thin slices.

(2) Put the beef into the pot, add clear water until it doesn't smell like beef, bring it to a boil with strong fire, skim the floating foam and add cooking wine until the beef is almost cooked, then pour the tomatoes and Chinese cabbage into the pot, stew until it is all cooked, add refined salt and monosodium glutamate, stew for a while, and serve.

Nutrition: It contains carbohydrate 1 1g, protein 23. 1g, fat 7.2g, calcium 8 1mg, phosphorus 254mg, iron 1.5mg, and provitamin A0.1.

Functions: invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, regulating qi and blood, promoting fluid production and stopping diarrhea.

Tomato stuffing

Ingredients: tomato100g, pork 50g.

Accessories: 50g of green leafy vegetables, 5g of vegetable oil, 10g of white powder, 3g of refined salt, 3g of ginger juice and 5g of chopped green onion.

Methods: ① Wash tomatoes, remove pedicels and dig out seeds and hearts (for later use).

(2) Chop the pork into minced meat, then mix the minced meat with appropriate amount of white powder, ginger juice, chopped green onion and a small amount of water, put it into tomatoes, steam it in a cage for about 10 minute, and take it out.

(3) Wash and cut the green leaves, put oil in the pot and heat them, then stir fry, add the dug tomato juice, thicken it, pour it into the bottom of the dish and smooth it, and then put the steamed tomatoes on the dish to eat.

Nutrition: zinc 9.6 mg, provitamin A 0.8 1 mg, vitamin b 1.37 mg, vitamin B2 0.37 mg, nicotinic acid 2. 1 mg, vitamin C 36 mg, protein 6.6 mg, fat 35 g and carbohydrate 2.65 mg, which can produce 333 thousand.

Functions: nourishing yin and blood, invigorating spleen and qi, strengthening the heart and calming the nerves, warming the middle warmer and moistening the intestines, especially its effect of appetizing, moistening the intestines and relaxing bowels is superior.

Wash the watermelon skin, add ebony, chrysanthemum, tea and water, and cook until the watermelon skin becomes soft. ! Good drink, lost fire!

Boil water with lotus leaves, add cicada and wax gourd; The water cooked in this way is delicious, and it can also be used as tea, which will cool off the heat, but it is not cold.

Light salt water is most conducive to hot drinks, and watermelon is the easiest to eat cold, which has a good effect of relieving summer heat.