【winter Healthy Vegetables】—lamb Stewed with Yam and Carrot

【winter Healthy Vegetables】—lamb Stewed with Yam and Carrot

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Lamb is a common food on people's dinner table in winter season in northern my country. As the saying goes: "Food should be equipped with beautiful utensils, and medicine is not as good as diet". Lamb is warm, nourishes qi, nourishes yin, warms the middle and nourishes deficiency, appetizes and strengthens the stomach. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, it is called the warmth of nourishing yang and nourishing blood and qi. Hot tonic. Warmness is warming to the human body. For example, in winter, the elderly are more afraid of cold, and they will feel warm by eating some lamb at the right time. This is recorded in Zhang Qiongzhi’s "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" and in the "Qianjinshu" of the Tang Dynasty. It can be seen that mutton is the best food for people to nourish in winter.

Lamb meat is tender and contains high protein and rich vitamins. Sheep fat has a melting point of 47 degrees. Because a human body temperature is 37 degrees, it will not be absorbed by the body even if it is eaten, and it will not gain weight. Lamb meat is tender and easy to digest. Eating more lamb can only improve physical fitness and improve disease resistance. There will be no other side effects, so now people often say: "If you want to live longer, eat lamb often."

Suitable for the crowd:
Suitable for the general population.

Precautions:
"Compendium of Materia Medica" when referring to lamb said: "Lamb eats with vinegar and it hurts people's hearts." Lamb is hot, vinegar is sweet and warm, and similar to wine, the two things are cooked at the same time, easy to cause fire and blood. Therefore, vinegar should not be added to mutton soup, and patients with normal cardiac dysfunction and blood diseases should pay special attention. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Mutton is cooked in copperware: men injure yang, women injure things; the difference in sex is like this, you must know." The reason for this is: copper encounters acid or alkali and is in a state of high heat. , Can be chemically changed to generate copper salt. Lamb is a high-protein food. When the two are cooked together, certain toxic substances will be produced, which will endanger human health. Excessive consumption of lamb in patients with hepatitis can increase the burden on the liver and cause disease. Drinking tea immediately after eating lamb is prone to constipation.


Yam is rich in cellulose, choline, mucus and other ingredients, which can supply a large amount of mucus protein needed by the human body. It is a mixture of polysaccharide protein and has a special health care effect on the human body. This mucus protein can prevent fat deposition in the cardiovascular system, maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, and prevent premature atherosclerosis; at the same time, it can also reduce the accumulation of subcutaneous fat and avoid obesity; and this mucus polysaccharide is related to inorganic When combined with salt, bone can also be formed, which makes cartilage full of elasticity and helps prevent fractures in the elderly.

Yam also has high medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that yam is sweet and non-toxic. It has the effects of nourishing the spleen and kidney, nourishing the lungs, stopping diarrhea, and restraining sweat.

Taking some yam before tonic in autumn and winter is more conducive to the absorption of tonic. Yam is a medicine for invigorating the middle and nourishing qi, has the effect of nourishing the spleen and stomach, and is especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach before taking tonic.

Yam is a good helper for weight loss, because yam contains less calories, more nutrients, and rich in crude fiber. It is easy to increase people's feeling of fullness and control the desire to eat. And the fat content of yam is very low, only 0.2 grams of fat per 100 grams of yam, so as to achieve the purpose of weight loss.

Chinese medicine believes that cold hands and feet are closely related to physical weakness, and yam has a good effect of nourishing the middle, nourishing qi, and nourishing blood. It is especially suitable for patients with cold hands and feet in winter.

Yam has the effect of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi. Therefore, patients with hyperhidrosis and repeated colds should moderately increase their intake in autumn and winter.

Suitable for the crowd:
suitable for majority of the people.

Precautions:
Yam has the effect of astringent, so those with dry stool should not eat it; in addition, those with evil spirits should not eat yam. Do not eat yam and kansui together; do not take it with alkaline drugs.


As for the nutrition of carrots, everyone knows it. Carrots are known as'little ginseng'. They have high nutritional value and contain a lot of carotene and plant fiber. In particular, the content of carotene is among the best in vegetables. Carotene has the function of maintaining epithelial cells. It has important functions such as normal function, prevention and treatment of respiratory infections, promotion of human growth and development, and participation in the synthesis of rhodopsin.

Precautions:
Carotene is a fat-soluble substance, so it can only be absorbed well in oil. Therefore, when eating carrots, it is best to cook them with oil or simmer them with meat to ensure that the effective ingredients are absorbed and utilized by the body. "

Ingredients

【winter Healthy Vegetables】—lamb Stewed with Yam and Carrot

1. Wash the lamb and cut it into 2 cm square pieces; also cut the yam and carrots into the same size pieces (the cut yam should be soaked in water immediately, otherwise it will easily become black due to oxidation); cut coriander into small pieces; white radish Cut into large pieces for later use.

【winter Healthy Vegetables】—lamb Stewed with Yam and Carrot recipe

2. First of all, the lamb must be processed to remove the taint and impurities from the lamb. Poke holes in the big radish cubes.

【winter Healthy Vegetables】—lamb Stewed with Yam and Carrot recipe

3. Pour clean water into the pot, put the lamb and large radish pieces into the pot and boil, cook for about 2-3 minutes and turn off the heat.

【winter Healthy Vegetables】—lamb Stewed with Yam and Carrot recipe

4. Remove the mutton, turn off the radish and the water used to cook the mutton. This method of removing the mutton smell is very useful, and the processed mutton can't eat the taint at all.

【winter Healthy Vegetables】—lamb Stewed with Yam and Carrot recipe

5. Re-boil a pot of boiling water, add cooking wine, shallots, ginger slices, and dried tangerine peel.

【winter Healthy Vegetables】—lamb Stewed with Yam and Carrot recipe

6. Add the mutton, bring to a boil on high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for 40 minutes, until the mutton is soft and rotten.

【winter Healthy Vegetables】—lamb Stewed with Yam and Carrot recipe

7. Pour in the yam and carrot pieces, and add salt.

【winter Healthy Vegetables】—lamb Stewed with Yam and Carrot recipe

8. Continue to simmer until the yam and carrots are soft and rotten, add a little chicken essence to taste, and add coriander to increase the fragrance before starting the pot.

【winter Healthy Vegetables】—lamb Stewed with Yam and Carrot recipe

Tips:

Experience sharing:

Several methods to remove lamb taint:

1. Method for removing mutton from radish: Poke a few holes in the white radish, put it in cold water and cook it with the lamb. After it is boiled, remove the lamb and cook it separately to remove the mutton.

2. Mung bean mutton removal method: When cooking mutton, adding a little mung bean can also remove or reduce the mutton mutton smell.

3. Cooking wine to mutton method: After soaking the raw mutton in cold water several times, cut into slices, shreds or small pieces and serve on a plate, and then use 50 grams of cooking wine, 25 grams of baking soda, 10 grams of salt, and 10 grams of sugar for every 500 grams of mutton. G, 5 g of MSG, 250 g of water and mix well. After the mutton has fully absorbed the seasoning, take 3 egg whites and 50 g of starch for sizing. After some time, cooking wine and baking soda can fully remove the mutton smell.

4. Method of removing mutton with medicine: When cooking mutton, wrap the crushed cloves, amomum, cardamom, and perilla with gauze and cook, not only to remove mutton, but also to make the mutton have a unique flavor.

5. Soaking and mutton removal method: soak the lamb in cold water for 2-3 days, change the water twice a day, so that the ammonia in the lamb sarcoplasmic protein can be leached, and the lamb taint can also be reduced.

6. Method for removing mutton from orange peel: when stewing lamb, put a few dried orange peels in the pot, boil for a period of time, remove them and discard them, then add a few dried orange peels to continue cooking, which can also remove the mutton smell .

7. Walnut mutton removal method: Choose a few good quality walnuts, break them, put them in a pot and cook with lamb, or remove mutton.

8. Hawthorn mutton removal method: Using hawthorn and mutton to cook at the same time, the effect of removing mutton mutton smell is very good.

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