Winter is always considered a season of hiding vitality, and winter nourishing and health diets have become hot topics. For those who are trying to lose weight, the difficulty of losing weight through exercise increases in the cold weather, so dieting is still a good choice.
Herbal Recipe 1: Steamed Sea Bass
Ingredients: 1 sea bass, spring onion, ginger, cooking wine, light soy sauce, steamed fish sauce
Directions:
1. Clean the sea bass and pat it dry with kitchen paper. Make a few cuts on both sides of the fish. Rub the fish with a little salt on the inside and outside. Stuff the fish with ginger and garlic, and sprinkle some ginger and garlic on the fish. Pour a little cooking wine, light soy sauce, and marinate for about 10 minutes.
2. Steam the fish over high heat for about 10 minutes. Turn off the heat and let it steam for another 5 minutes.
3. Take out the fish and pour steamed fish sauce and some hot oil evenly over the fish.
Benefits: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sea bass has a warm and sweet taste, which can invigorate the spleen and stomach, nourish the liver and kidneys, and relieve cough and phlegm. In winter, sea bass is rich and fatty, with delicate flesh, making it the best season for enjoying sea bass. In addition, fish meat has the effect of enhancing intelligence and brain health. It is rich in nutrients and easily absorbed by the body, making it especially suitable for elderly health care and promoting the growth and development of children.
Herbal Recipe 2: Beef Stew with Radish
Ingredients: beef, radish, ginger, spring onion, garlic
Directions:
1. Blanch the sliced beef in boiling water to remove blood, and then rinse it with cold water.
2. Put the rinsed beef in a pot, add cold water, ginger slices, spring onion, and star anise. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over medium heat.
3. Cut the radish into small pieces and set aside. After the beef is about 70-80% cooked, add the radish and salt, and continue to simmer.
4. When the beef and radish are cooked and the aroma of the beef and radish is released, remove from heat.
Benefits: Beef is rich in protein, which can improve the body's ability to resist diseases and nourish the middle and replenish qi. Eating beef in winter can better nourish the spleen and stomach, strengthen the tendons and bones, and is an excellent food for winter health. White radish is low in calories and belongs to a cooling food. The choline in radish can promote the digestion and decomposition of fat, accelerate the excretion of toxins from the body, improve constipation, and have unexpected effects on slimming the belly.
Herbal Recipe 3: Chestnut Braised Cabbage
Ingredients:
Main ingredients: 400g baby cabbage, 150g chestnuts, salt, oyster sauce, sugar, broth, starch, chicken essence
Directions:
1. Wash the chestnuts and make a cross cut with scissors. Then cook them in boiling water for about ten minutes, remove the shells and set aside.
2. Wash the cabbage and cut it into strips. Stir-fry the cabbage in hot oil, add water, cover and cook for 3 minutes, then remove.
3. In another pot, add broth (or water if there is no broth), salt, chicken essence, vinegar, oyster sauce, a little sugar, chestnuts, and the stir-fried cabbage. Bring to a boil.
4. Finally, thicken the sauce with water starch, remove from heat, and serve. Decorate with wolfberries if desired.
Benefits: Cabbage is a seasonal vegetable in winter. Eating more cabbage can have a good effect on skin care and beauty. Eating cabbage regularly can also help cleanse the intestines and detoxify. Chestnuts are the only nuts that contain vitamin C, and they are a necessary snack during the flu season.
Herbal Recipe 4: Snow Pear and Tremella Soup
Ingredients: Tremella, pear, rock sugar
Directions:
1. Soak the Tremella in water until soft, wash it, and tear it into small pieces. Peel and core the pear, and cut it into pieces. Rinse the wolfberries.
2. Boil water in a pot, add Tremella and pear pieces, and simmer for an hour. Then add rock sugar and wolfberries, and simmer for another ten minutes.
Benefits: Eating pears in winter can relieve cough, reduce phlegm, clear heat, moisturize the lungs, and is most suitable for patients with fever and internal heat. Medical research has shown that pears can also lower blood pressure and have a calming effect. Tremella also has the effect of nourishing and beautifying the skin.
