The summer weather is hot, and the diet is also suitable for light, which can not only supplement the necessary nutrition, but also eliminate summer heat. Summer is also a beautiful season for flowers to bloom, and lotus leaves and lotus seeds are good products to cool off the heat. So how do we use these seasonal ingredients to prepare simple and nutritious home-cooked food? ?We can use lotus leaf lotus seeds with black chicken to make a seasonal food that is very suitable for summer consumption.

　　Helian lotus seed steamed Black chicken

　　 Black chicken, also known as black bone chicken, Thai chicken, black chicken has the effect of nourishing yin and clearing heat, nourishing liver and spleen. Not only is its beak, eyes, and feet black, but also its skin, muscles, bones, and most internal organs are black. From the perspective of nutritional value, the nutrition of black chicken is much higher than that of ordinary chicken, and the taste is very delicate. Its medicinal and therapeutic effects are unmatched by ordinary chickens. It is suitable for the elderly, children, women, especially those who have maternal diet deficiency and blood deficiency, liver and kidney deficiency, and spleen and stomach.

　　 Raw materials: half black-bone chicken, one fresh (dried) lotus leaf, one fresh (water hair) lotus seed, 5 golden red dates, 20 grams black water fungus, one chive A little root and ginger slices.

　　Accessories: 2 grams of salt, 2 grams of chicken powder, 5 grams of Huadiao wine (shao wine), 1 grams of pepper powder, and 3 grams of water starch.

　　 Utensils: A small cage drawer.

　　Cooking process:

　　 1. First soak and wash the lotus leaves in advance, soak the lotus seeds, red dates and fungus together, and slice the chives.

　　 2. Wash the black chicken cleanly, chop it into large pieces of walnut, pickle with pepper, salt, chicken powder and Huadiao wine to taste.

　　3. Mix the pickled black chicken with lotus seeds, red dates and black fungus and grab a small amount of water starch to avoid steaming the soup.

　　 4. Grab the mixed black chicken and other ingredients, wrap them with lotus leaves, put them in a small cage drawer, and steam for 15 minutes on the top drawer.

　　5. Sprinkle the chives on the black chicken with lotus leaves.

　　Efficacy: dispel heat and relieve trouble, nourish the mind and calm the mind.

Some problems in the production process:

　　 1. Why not chicken pieces soaked in water to remove blood and steam again?

　　Ukrainian chicken is rich in hemoglobin and potassium , Iron, has a good iron supplement and anemia diet. After soaking in water, a lot of blood will be released from the cut surface of the chicken, and these nutrients will be lost in it.

　　 2. Can the internal organs of black chicken be steamed together?

　　 The internal organs of black chicken are also rich in hemoglobin, inorganic salts and fat-soluble vitamins, especially in the liver except iron and protein , And its vitamin A content is also particularly rich, it has a good therapeutic effect on sub-health conditions such as frequent late stays, excessive use of computers, vision loss, blurred vision, etc. It can be used at the same time or can be used separately, such as soup, cooking . However, some internal organs and chicken parts have many glands and heavy odor, such as the tip of the tail, glands around the esophagus, chicken lungs, and crops must be removed.

　　3. In addition to steaming, is there any good cooking method for black chicken?

　　 Black chicken is generally used to cook soup more. You can use American ginseng or wolfberry, Huaishan or Astragalus, Cordyceps sinensis, etc. For soup. It can also be stewed and fried, and the taste effect is also good.