The king of dried fruit, known in Chinese medicine as "the fruit of kidney"

2018-10-12 17:22 source: sohu gourmet

Now, many vegetables are sold all year round because of improved planting techniques, so most young people don't know what vegetables are available in any season. Our Chinese nation has a long tradition of eating according to the time of the year, according to the season, when to eat what. So there's an old saying: "don't eat now and then." Tell us that we should be on time, according to the season to eat things, such as: we just after the Mid-Autumn festival, eat moon cakes, eat river fat crab, eat lake lotus root and so on.

Now in October, it's chestnut season. There are two kinds of chestnut, one is chestnut, which is produced in the mountainous area of fujian province. The other is chestnuts, but are known as chestnuts. Chestnut is a special product of China, as a precious fruit since ancient times, is among the outstanding dried fruit, there is the title of "king of dried fruit", some people abroad referred to it as "ginseng fruit".

Chinese medicine believes that chestnuts have the functions of strengthening the kidney and spleen, strengthening the body and strengthening the body, nourishing the stomach and smoothing the liver, promoting blood circulation and hemostasis. Hence the name "fruit of the kidney". Chestnut contains rich unsaturated fatty acid and vitamin, mineral, rich vitamin C, vitamin B and so on, the crowd that has the disease such as hypertension disease, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis also can take a few appropriately, it is fight senility, prolong life nourishing good taste. Of course, while chestnuts are of high nutritional value, they should not be eaten too much at once.

Sweet osmanthus chestnut

Materials:

Chestnut 500 grams of rock sugar right amount of oil one teaspoon of osmanthus right amount.

Practice:

1. Wash the chestnuts clean, and gently cut the chestnuts shell with a knife, do not cut too deep, as long as there is a cut, flavor can be.

2. Pour the chestnuts into the rice cooker, add a teaspoon of oil and a little water, about 1/3 the height of chestnuts.

3. Add rock candy, the amount of rock candy according to personal preference.

4. Start the rice cooker cooking process. When finished, add a little osmanthus and mix well. Cover and cover for a few minutes.