In early autumn, it's the season of tonic, lotus root is an ideal vegetarian, its nutrition and nourishing function is no less than meat food. So what nutritional value and medicinal value does lotus root have? How to make health preserving lotus root products? Small band you know lotus root!
As a folk saying goes: 'lotus is a treasure, autumn lotus is the best. 'lotus root is not only a good vegetable, but also a good medicine. Lotus root contains a lot of starch, protein, vitamin B, vitamin C, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals. Its meat is tender, white and round. Its taste is sweet and crisp. Its raw food is comparable to pears. It is suitable for young and old people to nourish.
As early as in the "Shennong materia medica classic" there are records: lotus root 'Buzhong Yangshen, yiqili, in addition to a hundred diseases, long service, light body and enduring aging. According to traditional Chinese medicine, lotus root is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the four meridians of heart, liver, spleen and stomach. It can be divided into raw and cooked, and its properties are different. Raw lotus root is cold in nature, sweet and cool in the stomach, which can generate fluid and quench thirst, disperse blood stasis and heat, cool blood and stop vomiting. Therefore, women should not eat raw lotus root after childbirth, but they should not avoid it. Cooked lotus root emphasizes the functions of benefiting stomach and spleen, nourishing blood and tonifying deficiency. Therefore, eating cooked lotus root is good for the elderly, especially those with weak spleen and stomach. Because there are about 2% tannin and asparagine in the nodes between the segments of lotus root, its hemostatic and astringent effect is stronger than that of fresh lotus root, and it can also detoxify crab venom. The meat of lotus root is sweet, crisp and tender. The common eating methods are stewed meat, stir fried vegetable or stir fried meat
Steamed Lotus Root Stuffed with Glutinous Rice
Fill the big lotus root with glutinous rice, cook it, cut it into slices, and sprinkle with sugar and osmanthus. Coupled with a bowl of sweet thick greasy glutinous rice porridge, it has a unique flavor.
Lotus root with mung bean
Take two sections of lotus root, mung bean and rock sugar. Soak the mung bean for 3 hours, fill in the lotus root hole, add rock sugar and water, cook well, and serve with soup. This dish can relieve summer heat and red eye pain.
Lotus root beverage
Take the clean tender lotus root, rub it into mud, wrap the juice with gauze, add sugar, mix it with cold boiled water and drink it. It can clear the heart and moisten the lung. Such as brewing with boiling water, that is a cup of delicious lotus root juice drink.
Glutinous lotus root crisp slices
Remove the two ends of the lotus root, fill the lotus root hole with glutinous rice, simmer and slice it, and dip it with sugar. It's very good. It can be used as an appetizer for old and young people.
Lotus root porridge
Take 250 grams of fresh lotus root, 50 grams of glutinous rice and 100 grams of brown sugar, wash the lotus root, scrape off the skin and cut it into small pieces; wash the glutinous rice. Then take a casserole, pour water, add glutinous rice, lotus root dice, boil with high heat, then boil with low heat until the rice rotten soup is thick, add brown sugar and mix well. This porridge has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, nourishing blood and promoting muscle growth.
Sweet and sour lotus root
Remove the tender lotus root, peel and wash it, cut it into slices, blanch it in boiling water, remove it, drain the water, add sugar, refined salt and chili oil, mix well, sprinkle with shredded red pepper and ginger, and pour with white vinegar and sesame oil. It is a good food with wine.
Lotus root with minced chicken
Take 250 grams of fresh lotus root, a little mushroom, 250 grams of chicken. First, wash the lotus root, scrape off the skin, and then cut the lotus root into pieces; rinse the chicken and chop it into chicken antler; soak the mushrooms in hot water and take them out, rinse and chop them. Take another large bowl, apply sesame oil on the inner layer, add lotus root, chicken antler and mushroom, add soy sauce, sugar, refined salt, cooking wine and Taibai powder, mix well, spread flat on the top, steam for about 20 minutes and take out. This dish not only tastes delicious, but also can tonify the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and blood, and stop bleeding.
Fried cake with lotus root
Cut the lotus root into 2 thick slices, put the minced meat between the two slices, put it into the batter and deep fry it into golden lotus root cake. It tastes sweet, fragrant and nutritious.