Healthy Home Cooking Recipes - Color Special Offer Edition (Includes 200 Food Pairing Taboos)

Author: Wang Zuosheng
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Eight Treasure Rice Pudding for Strengthening the Spleen and Nourishing the Stomach
Ingredients:
- Chinese yam: 10g
- Coix seed: 10g
- White bean: 10g
- Lotus seeds: 10g
- Longan: 20g
- Red dates: 10 pieces
- Chestnuts: 10g
- Glutinous rice: 150g
- Lard, sugar, osmanthus: as needed
Instructions:
1. Wash and steam the Chinese yam slices, coix seed, white bean, lotus seeds, longan meat (remove shells and take the meat), and red dates.
2. Wash and cook the chestnuts, then peel and slice them.
3. Wash and steam the glutinous rice.
4. Grease a bowl and arrange the Chinese yam slices, coix seed, white bean, lotus seeds, longan meat, red dates, and chestnut slices at the bottom. Cover with steamed glutinous rice.
5. Place the large bowl in a steamer, steam over high heat for 20 minutes, then invert onto a round plate and drizzle with sugar and osmanthus syrup.
Benefits: Suitable for treating chronic loose and undigested stools.
Shanzha Chicken with Single Fish
Ingredients:
- Carp: 1 piece
- Shanzha (hawthorn) slices: 30g
- Eggs: 1
- Flour: 100g
- Cooking wine, scallions, ginger slices, salt, sugar, MSG, cooking oil: as needed
Instructions:
1. Scale, gut, and clean the carp, then cut into pieces. Marinate with cooking wine and salt for 15 minutes.
2. Mix flour with water and sugar, add eggs, and whisk into a batter. Dip the fish pieces into the batter, then roll in flour and fry in preheated oil for 3 minutes. Remove and drain.
3. Dissolve shanzha slices in a small amount of water, add seasonings and a little batter, and make a thickening sauce. Pour over the fried fish and simmer for 15 minutes. Adjust with MSG, then sprinkle with scallions.
Benefits: Suitable for treating poor appetite and facial and limb edema.
Grass Mushroom and Vegetable Heart Stew
Ingredients:
- Grass mushrooms: 250g
- Vegetable hearts: 250g
- Pine nuts: 50g
- Fresh stock: 150ml
- Yellow wine, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, salt, MSG, sesame oil, vegetable oil, cornstarch: as needed
Instructions:
1. Wash the grass mushrooms and cut them in half. Blanch in boiling water.
2. Wash the vegetable hearts and cut them in half.
3. Soak the pine nuts in warm water until they swell. Heat oil to 40°C, add pine nuts, and fry until light golden. Remove and cool.
4. Heat oil in a wok, stir-fry the vegetable hearts, add fresh stock, and bring to a boil. Add the grass mushrooms and the above seasonings. Simmer until boiling again, then thicken with cornstarch. Add the pine nuts and drizzle with sesame oil.
Benefits: Suitable for treating poor appetite.