Winter is a time to wear more clothes and eat more warming foods to stay warm. Food can boost nutrition and improve your body's resistance. Let's take a look at what vegetables you can eat in the winter to stay warm?
1. Braised Venison with Chestnuts
Ingredients: Venison, chestnuts, sugar, soybean paste, cooking wine, starch water, dried chili, scallions, ginger, cloves, salt
Method: Cut the venison into small pieces, soak in water, then deep-fry until done. Score the chestnuts, cook them with a little salt until tender, then peel. In a pot, stir-fry scallions, ginger, dried chili, and cloves until fragrant. Add the fried venison, pour in cooking wine, add soybean paste, sugar, and broth. Simmer over low heat for 4 hours. Add the chestnuts, bring to a boil over high heat, and thicken with starch water.
Taste: The venison is both tender and firm, with a flavor less distinct than that of pork, beef, or mutton. The chestnuts are mealy and sweet.
Meats and Grains Generate Heat
Protein, fat, and carbohydrates are known as thermogenic nutrients. Therefore, during this period, it's appropriate to increase your intake of staple grains and fats to ensure a supply of high-quality protein, allowing your body to generate heat naturally. Furthermore, in Traditional Chinese Medicine, lamb, beef, venison, quail, and sea cucumber are believed to have functions such as benefiting the kidneys, strengthening yang, warming the middle and lower parts of the body, and replenishing qi and blood, making them the most effective for cold resistance.
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2. Braised Lamb with Radish
Ingredients: Lamb, red dates, white radish, white peppercorns, cinnamon, fennel seeds, salt, rock sugar
Method: Place the blanched lamb in a clay pot, add soy sauce and cooking wine, then fill with enough warm water. Add red dates and a spice packet containing white peppercorns, cinnamon, fennel seeds, and ginger slices. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then reduce to low and simmer slowly. When the lamb is nearly tender, season with an appropriate amount of salt and rock sugar. Then add the white radish and simmer for another 30 minutes over medium heat.
Taste: The braised lamb is incredibly warming, soft, tender, and hot. The white radish is also cooked until soft and melts in your mouth, and you feel your body warm up immediately after eating.
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3. Wood Ear Mushroom, Tofu Skin, and Cabbage Stir-fry
Ingredients: Tofu skin, wood ear mushrooms, cabbage, garlic, starch, chicken broth, concentrated chicken stock, salt
Method: Soak the tofu skin until soft, rehydrate the wood ear mushrooms, and slice the cabbage. In a wok, saute minced garlic until fragrant, then add the tofu skin, cabbage, and wood ear mushrooms and stir-fry. Season with salt and chicken stock. Mix starch with chicken broth to make a starch slurry and thicken the sauce.
Taste: This is a simple and light vegetarian dish, but it carries the warm feeling of early winter sunshine.
In addition, spicy foods like chili, ginger, and pepper. Eating more of these during this period can not only stimulate your appetite but also promote blood circulation and improve your ability to resist the cold. Vitamins A and C can enhance cold tolerance and adaptation to the cold, and have a good protective effect on blood vessels. They are mainly found in animal livers and fresh fruits and vegetables.
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