What to eat during the summer solstice
What should we eat during the hottest summer solstice? The summer solstice is not far from us. Let's take a look at what the summer solstice is to eat!
First of all, Xiao Bian first recommends a few recipes for the summer solstice:
Salad lettuce:
Ingredients: 350 grams of fresh lettuce, onions, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, salt and sugar.
Practice: Wash and peel the lettuce, cut into small pieces, stir in the dish and add salt, marinate for 1 hour, remove the water, add MSG, and mix the sugar. Cut shallots into chopped green onion and put it in sesame oil. Heat it in sesame oil and pour it on chopped green onion until it is hot. Stir well.
Efficacy: Lee five internal organs, through the meridians.
Cream melon balls:
Ingredients: 500 grams of melon, 20 grams of condensed milk, 10 grams of cooked ham, salt, fresh soup, sesame oil, water, starch, monosodium glutamate and the amount.
Method: Peel the melon, wash and cut into round balls, boil it in boiling water and pour cold water to cool it. The melon ball was discharged into a large bowl, and salt, monosodium glutamate, and fresh soup were placed in a cage and steamed with fire for 30 minutes. The melon ball into the pot, the soup into the pot and add condensed milk to boil, water starch thicken, gourd ball into the pot, topped with sesame oil and mix well, and finally sprinkled with ham and pan Serve.
Efficacy: Qingrejiedu, Sheng Jin Chufan, fill deficiency, benefit the spleen and stomach.
Rabbit meat spleen soup:
Raw materials: 200 grams of rabbit meat, 30 grams of yam, 15 grams of medlar, 15 grams of Codonopsis, 15 grams of astragalus, and 30 grams of jujube.
Practice: Wash the rabbit meat and other ingredients Wuhuo cook, boil, then change the slow fire to cook for 2 hours, soup, meat with food.
Efficacy: Spleen Qi.
What food is eaten in the summer solstice varies according to local customs.
The summer solstice to eat dog meat and lychee is a "patent" that people in Lingnan area want to eat by name. People in Guangzhou Cantonese and Qinzhou and Yulin in Guangxi are also very fond of summer solstice. It is said that the dog meat and razor clams of the summer solstice do not eat together, and there is a saying that “the winter solstice live in summer solsticeâ€, so the habit of eating dog meat and litchi in the summer solstice continues to this day.
The custom of eating summer meat in the summer, folk saying "the summer solstice dog, no way to go," saying that summer solstice this day, many dogs were killed, no way to escape. The folk saying is that dog meat is warm, has a lot of vitality, and is hot in nature. It is only suitable for eating in autumn and winter, and eating dog meat will get angry in the summer, and external heat plus internal heat will be detrimental to the body. However, with the exception of the summer solstice, eating dog meat on the summer solstice will not only be unpleasant and will not cause discomfort to the body but will be beneficial to the body. It is probably the truth of life. Of course, eating dog meat during the summer solstice should also be modest. Do not eat too much, so as to avoid indigestion and other gastrointestinal problems.
Why is it so keen to eat dog meat in the summer solstice? There is a saying in the local community that the summer solstice on this day can eat dog meat to make up for evil and resist plague. “Eating a summer solstice dog and the West Wind detouring,†the effect is that as long as people eat dog meat on the summer solstice day, their bodies will be able to resist the intrusion of the westerly rains, have fewer colds, and are in good health. It is on the basis of this good wish that the unique folk food culture of the "summer solstice dog meat" has been achieved.
People in Guangdong have the habit of eating dog meat, especially in Yangjiang. According to the relevant records, the summer solstice kills dogs and is believed to have originated from Qin Degong during the Warring States Period. Qin Degong then said that "the dog is a positive animal, can provide an ominous", and ordered the subjects to kill dogs to avoid evil, and later formed the custom of killing dogs in the summer solstice. The ballads of “Establishing summer food and eating food†also showed that the supplementary food started from the beginning of summer.
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