Hot weather recipes

In the dog days between the summer heat and the autumnal equinox, the weather is particularly hot, and the heat and humidity are strong, which makes people unable to sleep. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that strengthening the spleen is the main health care in dog days, and diet pays more attention to strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness. Then let's take a look at six dog days health dishes, which can clear away heat and reduce fire, relieve summer heat and damp.

1, old cucumber soup

Ingredients: half a catty of old cucumber, 8 taels of pork tenderloin, 0 taels of adzuki bean/kloc-0, raw coix seed, lentils, dried tangerine peel and candied dates.

Practice: peel the old cucumber and cut it into pieces; Wash pig's trotters, splash water, rinse slightly, and cut into pieces; Soak pericarpium Citri Tangerinae in water to soften, scrape off the gourd ladle, and rinse other materials with water; Put all the ingredients in a saucepan and stew for 2 hours.

Efficacy: Old cucumber is a magic weapon to relieve summer heat. Old cucumber refers to mature cucumber. The skin of cucumber was originally turquoise, but it will gradually turn yellow after a long time of maturity, so it is also called old cucumber. Strong heat-clearing ability and less coldness are good ingredients to deal with summer heat.

2, yam ribs

Ingredients: 300g of yam, 350g of ribs and a little chopped green onion.

Practice: Wash all the ingredients, and wash the ribs with boiling water to remove the fishy smell and bloodshot; Put some water in the pot and stew the ribs. After the water boils, add the chopped yam. Stew for about 20 minutes, the soup turns white and the fragrance is scattered. Add the right amount of salt and chopped green onion.

Efficacy: It is hot and humid in dog days, the human body sweats a lot, and trace elements such as potassium and calcium are seriously lost, which is easy to hurt yin and consume gas. At this time, you should eat foods that replenish blood and qi, nourish yin and strengthen the spleen. Chinese yam ribs are excellent nourishing yin ingredients and have the effect of supplementing calcium.

Step 3 mix assorted foods

Ingredients: tofu 1 block, tender beans 50g, tomatoes 50g, fungus 15g, sesame oil, vegetable oil, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and chopped green onion.

Practice: Dice tofu, beans, tomatoes and fungus. Boil the pot with water, blanch the tofu, beans, tomatoes and fungus respectively (the tomatoes can be slightly scalded), take them out and drain them, and put them on a plate for later use. Heat a wok, add vegetable oil, add pepper, add chopped green onion, salt, tomato and monosodium glutamate, stir-fry evenly, pour on the scalded tofu, beans and fungus, then pour sesame oil and stir-fry evenly.

Efficacy: This dish can promote fluid production to quench thirst, strengthen the spleen to relieve summer heat, detoxify and eliminate dampness, especially suitable for dog days.

4, tomato fried bitter gourd

Ingredients: one bitter gourd, one tomato and a little garlic.

Practice: first slice bitter gourd, tomato and garlic for later use; Then put oil in the wok and heat it. Add garlic slices into the wok. After the garlic slices are browned, add bitter gourd slices and stir fry for a while, and add appropriate amount of salt. Finally, stir-fry the tomato slices quickly. Before the tomato slices are disfigured, put some chicken essence in the pot and put it on the plate.

Efficacy: Eating bitter food in dog days has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat and relieving fatigue, and helps people spend the dog days healthily.

5, three bean soup

Ingredients: mung bean, adzuki bean, black bean 10g, and brown sugar.

Practice: Wash three beans and soak them in cold water for half an hour; Put three beans in the pot, add some water, and the boy will stew them; After about 40 minutes, the fragrance of the beans overflows, and after the beans become soft, add a proper amount of brown sugar.

Efficacy: As early as in the ancient "Outline", it was recorded that cooking soup every day and eating with children can relieve acne. In case of pox, also use this soup to drink; Mash it and apply it, and its poison will disappear. Three bean soup has the effect of detoxification and reducing fire, and it is one of the best recipes in dog days.

6. Hu Aishan red bean and winter melon pettitoes soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of adzuki bean, 25 grams of yam, 500 grams of pork tenderloin, 600 grams of wax gourd, dried tangerine peel 14, and 3 slices of ginger.

Practice: wash and soak adzuki beans, yam and dried tangerine peel, and remove the pulp from dried tangerine peel; Scrape wax gourd, washing, and cut into pieces; Wash the pork tenderloin and cut the whole piece; Put the ingredients together with ginger into a clay pot and add water to boil; After boiling, simmer for 2 hours, and add appropriate amount of oil and salt.

Efficacy: adzuki bean can dispel dampness, nourish heart and strengthen spleen and stomach. Wax gourd has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, detoxifying, diuresis and detumescence. Moreover, yam is also very rich in nutrients, which has the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and eliminating dampness. This dish is suitable for summer heat and humidity health care in dog days.