Cold wind blowing, mutton fat, beginning of winter make up. Mutton is the first choice, and it's time to eat mutton again. Now people's common methods for mutton are nothing more than frying, roasting, rinsing and stewing. Each method has its own flavor and characteristics, and contains different nutrients.
Mutton stew has the best nutrition.
In these practices, stewed mutton can maintain the original soup during cooking, which can ensure the nutrition not to be lost to the maximum extent. Therefore, when winter comes, you might as well send a lamb chop stewed with radish in casserole to your home often, which can play the role of invigorating qi, tonifying deficiency, reducing qi and resolving phlegm. Just chop the lamb chop into 5-6 cm long, add the minced onion and ginger, simmer it with slow fire, and then add the radish. It tastes better if you stew it in a casserole.
Besides radish, it can also be stewed with yam, chestnuts and walnuts, which is more nutritious. Yam is beneficial to qi and spleen and helps digestion; Chestnuts tonify the kidney and strengthen the waist, benefit the stomach and calm the liver. According to the principle of "supplementing and supplementing" in Yijing, chestnuts are still good for nourishing the brain; Walnut kernel warms lung and kidney, relieves asthma and moistens intestines. These three kinds are all stewed with mutton, which are nutritious, warm but not dry, and have a strong foundation.
Instant boiled mutton is the most popular way to eat. In the middle of winter, when you sit at the table and taste the mutton hotpot with tender meat and fresh soup, you will feel warm and comfortable immediately. The selection of materials for meat rinsing is very particular, and because the rinsing time is short, the nutrition is not easy to lose.
Eating mutton with tofu doesn't get angry.
Mutton is warm, and it is easy to get angry if you eat it often. Chinese medicine pays attention to the dietotherapy method of "heat is cold". Therefore, when eating mutton, it must be accompanied by cool and sweet vegetables, which can play a role in cooling, detoxifying and removing fire. Cold vegetables generally include white gourd, towel gourd, rape, spinach, Chinese cabbage, Flammulina velutipes, mushrooms, lotus roots, water bamboo, Chinese cabbage and so on; Sweet potato, potato, mushroom, etc. It is a sweet vegetable.
Mutton with tofu is the best, which can not only supplement a variety of trace elements, but also play a role in clearing away heat and purging fire, removing annoyance and quenching thirst. Mutton and radish can make a dish, which can give full play to the coolness of radish, eliminate stagnation, resolve phlegm and clear heat.
When making mutton, the matching function of seasonings can not be ignored. It is best to put some peeled ginger, because the ginger skin is cool, which has the functions of dispersing fire and relieving pain, expelling wind and removing dampness, and can also remove odor. When cooking mutton, use less spices such as pepper, ginger, clove and fennel. You can put some lotus plumule, which has the function of clearing the heart fire.
Beginning of winter ate mutton medicated diet.
1, meat cistanche mutton porridge
Ingredients: cistanche deserticola 30g, mutton 150-200g, appropriate amount of rice, a little salt and monosodium glutamate.
Practice: Wash and slice mutton, put it in a pot and cook it with water, add rice and cistanche, and cook it with salt and monosodium glutamate.
Efficacy: warming the interior and strengthening yang. Nourishing kidney and essence. Suitable for cold pain in waist and knees, impotence and nocturnal emission, and dull complexion due to kidney deficiency.
2. Braised mutton with chestnuts
Ingredients: mutton 640g, chestnuts 320g, 1 red and white radish, cinnamon, star anise, red pepper, ginger, soy sauce, oyster sauce, chicken powder, sugar and salt.
Practice: chop the mutton, drain the water after the water is too cold; Red and white radish cut corners; First, put half of carrot and half of white radish into the pot, add water to boil, add mutton to cook for 15 minutes, take out the mutton and let it cool, drain the water, and discard the radish; Ignition in the pot, stir-fry ginger, add mutton and stir-fry, then add wine, that is, add seasoning, cinnamon, star anise and pepper, boil and simmer for about 1 hour; After the mutton is stewed, add the radish and chestnuts, stew until the chestnuts are soft, and then add the sauce to serve.
Efficacy: mutton is sweet and warm, can warm yang and dispel cold, tonify qi and blood, strengthen the body, and is more suitable for winter tonic; Chestnuts strengthen the kidney and waist, benefit the stomach and calm the liver; Radish has the effects of promoting digestion, resolving phlegm, relieving asthma, clearing heat and smoothing qi. If mutton is cooked with chestnuts and radishes, it is not only nutritious, but also warm and not dry, and it can also consolidate its roots. Stewed mutton with chestnuts is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people, women and children.
3. Braised mutton with Eucommia ulmoides and Polygonum multiflorum
Ingredients: Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. 15g, Polygonum Multiflori Radix 20g, Ginger 20g, Mutton 20g, a small amount of salt, oil and cooking wine, and a proper amount of fresh soup.
Practice: Wash the mutton, cut into pieces, add a little salt, cooking wine and Euryale ferox powder for a while, and wash Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. And Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. Soak in clear water and then a little water for later use; Add ginger, onion, garlic, etc. After stir-frying, add mutton, stir-fry, pour in fresh soup, and then add the soaked Eucommia ulmoides. And Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, first boil with strong fire, then simmer with medium and small fire, and when the soup is almost ready, add a little salt to taste.
Efficacy: tonifying kidney and essence, promoting hair growth and blackening hair, warming middle warmer and nourishing yang. It is very effective in keeping out the cold in winter, preventing white hair and withered hair, and treating kidney deficiency and low back pain.
Taboos for eating mutton in early winter
First, avoid replacing rice with tea. Tea is the bane of mutton. This is because mutton is rich in protein and tea contains more tannic acid. Drinking tea while eating mutton will produce protein tannic acid, which will weaken the intestinal peristalsis and reduce the moisture in the stool, thus inducing constipation.
Second, some diseases are not suitable for eating mutton. People who often suffer from erosion of mouth and tongue, red eyes, bitter taste, irritability, dry throat, swollen gums or diarrhea, or people who take Pinellia ternata and Acorus gramineus in traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions should avoid eating mutton.
Third, it is not suitable for eating with vinegar. Sour vinegar has astringent effect, which is not conducive to the growth of yang in the body. Eating with mutton will greatly reduce its warming effect.
Fourth, avoid eating with watermelon. Eating mutton and then eating watermelon is easy to "hurt your vitality". This is because mutton is sweet and hot, while watermelon is cold and belongs to cold products. After eating, it not only greatly reduces the warming effect of mutton, but also hinders the spleen and stomach.
Fifth, it is not suitable for eating with pumpkins. It is also recorded in ancient Chinese medicine books that mutton should not be eaten with pumpkin. This is mainly because mutton and pumpkin are warm foods. If you eat together, it is easy to get angry.