Winter is coming soon. Winter is a very suitable season for toning. Mutton is also a top-grade tonic. But once it's over replenished, it's easy to catch fire. What's the best way to eat with winter mutton? Let's see how senior health professionals eat it.
Lamb is best with black beans
Mutton is not only a good tonic in winter, but also a delicious food for all ages. Mutton is tender, delicious and rich in nutrition. It can be made into many delicacies with unique flavor and incomparable mellow flavor. Instant boiled mutton, roasted mutton, fried mutton kebab, fried mutton with scallion and so on. Now it's a good time to eat mutton for toning. When it comes to stewed mutton dishes, most people think of white radish first. However, the most effective way to warm mutton and tonify kidney is to match with beans. The delicious condiments such as Douchi and Doujiang are made of black beans. Compared with other beans, the biggest advantage is to tonify kidney, but also Nourishing yin and promoting blood circulation.
Advantages of lamb with black beans
first
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, black beans have the good effects of 'tonifying the kidney, five internal organs, warming the stomach and intestines, strengthening the muscles and bones, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, dispelling wind, detoxifying and longevity', while mutton has the effects of 'tonifying the kidney and Yang, warming the Qi and blood, appetizing the stomach and strengthening the spleen'. Therefore, the effect of Tonifying the kidney and warming the body will be better, especially suitable for people with deficiency of kidney, cold body and deficiency of Qi and blood.
Second
Mutton and black bean are rich in protein, but they come from different sources. They are stewed together, in which animal protein and plant protein can complement each other, which is more conducive to the utilization of protein;
Third
The mutton contains more saturated fat and cholesterol, while the plant sterol contained in black bean can inhibit the absorption of 'bad' cholesterol and reduce the content of 'bad' cholesterol in the blood. At the same time, black bean contains more unsaturated fatty acids, which helps to reduce blood lipid and protect blood vessels;
In this dish, the ratio of mutton to black bean is about 10:1. The specific way is
Wash and soak the black beans for 4-12 hours in advance; wash and cut the mutton. If the meat is not fresh, blanch it with boiling water first. Note that the blanching time should be short, just remove the blood water; put the meat, black beans and the water soaked in the beans into the iron pot or casserole together, and add the appropriate amount of cold water, not too much water, not too much meat; Add cooking wine, ginger, scallion and other seasonings to remove the smell of the mutton. The seasonings should not be too much, so as not to take away the original flavor of the meat. After the seasonings are added, boil them in high fire, and then simmer them in low fire. Until the soup is fragrant, the meat is soft and chewy, and the black beans are soft and rotten. When out of the pot, skim off the oil slick and add salt, onion and other seasonings according to your taste.
Other collocations of mutton
When mutton is mixed with tofu, radish, tofu and radish, it can not only supplement a variety of trace elements, but also the gypsum can play the role of clearing away heat and fire, eliminating boredom and thirst. While mutton and radish are cooked together, they can play the role of cold radish, eliminating accumulation stagnation and resolving phlegm heat.
When the seasoning is used to make mutton, it's better to put some ginger without peeling, because the ginger skin is pungent and cool, which can disperse fire and remove heat, relieve pain and eliminate wind dampness. Eating with mutton can also remove the smell of mutton. When cooking mutton, you should use less chilli, pepper, clove, fennel and other hot and warm condiments. When making mutton, you can also put lotus seed heart, which has the effect of clearing heart and purging fire.
It is forbidden to eat mutton with food collocation. It is not suitable to eat vinegar at the same time, because mutton is hot and invigorating qi and tonifying deficiency. However, vinegar contains protein, sugar, vitamin, acetic acid and a variety of organic acids. It is warm and suitable to match with cold food, but not hot mutton. Mutton should not be eaten with pumpkin to prevent jaundice and beriberi. It is not advisable to drink tea immediately after eating mutton, or it will produce a substance called tannic protein, which is easy to cause constipation.