Winter Wellness: Nourishing Recipes for Cold and Dry Weather

January 26, 2024

  Winter is dry and very cold, so if you don't supplement it properly, your body is prone to colds and other illnesses. Here are two foods that are most suitable for winter and health.


 

  [Snow Sea Lung Nourishing Bowl]

  Ingredients: 20 grams of fat sea, 10 grams of wolfberry, 1 snow pear.

  Method:

  1. Soak the fat sea in boiling water for 50 minutes, peel and remove the core.

  2. Peel the snow pear and cut it into 2 cm-sized pieces. Steam it with the fat sea for 10 minutes.

  3. Cut the core of a snow pear and make it into a bowl shape.

  4. Put the steamed snow pear, fat sea, and wolfberry in the bowl-shaped snow pear and steam for 5 minutes.

  Efficacy: Chinese medicine believes that fat sea has the effect of clearing and promoting lung qi, and clearing the intestines and facilitating bowel movements. Wolfberry is sweet and mild, and has the functions of nourishing the liver, nourishing the kidneys, and moisturizing the lungs.

  This drink is very suitable for sore throat and dry cough without phlegm caused by yin deficiency or qi stagnation constitution.

  [Double Winter Cucumber]

  Ingredients: 50 grams of Tian Dong, 50 grams of Mai Dong, 500 grams of cucumber

  Method:

  1. Put Tian Dong and Mai Dong into a casserole with an appropriate amount of water, cook for 20 minutes, and then pour the double winter and medicinal juice into a bowl for later use.

  2. Cut the cucumber into four pieces, remove the seeds, and cut into thirds. When the oil is heated to 50% hot, stir-fry the green onion and ginger slices, add cucumber, double winter and medicinal juice, cooking wine, salt, and broth, stir-fry and serve.

  Efficacy: Mai Dong is sweet, cool, and moistening, good at clearing heat from the heart and lungs, nourishing yin and relieving restlessness, and can also clear and moisturize the stomach and intestines and relieve thirst and dryness.

  Stir-frying cucumber with Mai Dong and Tian Dong is not only very effective for mouth ulcers, irritability, and dry stools caused by dampness and heat constitution, but also has a refreshing and refreshing taste.

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