【老饕喜訊】又是大快朵頤的時候
#記得少食多滋味
#滋補也不要吃太過
#星期二提升正能量
冬日滋補美食
天氣漸涼，自然想到冬日的種種美食。生炒糯米飯、煲仔飯、羊腩煲、麻油雞湯、藥膳醉雞鍋、胡椒豬肚湯等等，不禁令人口饞。這些冬季美食皆有共同點，都是具有溫補功效的美食。常說「少食多滋味，多吃壞肚皮」，正因此類食物本身多以溫性肉類為主，配合同為溫熱的食材及調味如麻油、酒、胡椒以火鍋或明火焗製，多吃容易上火。這些美食同時油脂較多，本身是想在寒冷的天氣下，為人體增添溫飽感及能量，少吃的確可為身體帶來暖意，但多吃易滯膩，除了易長胖，也容易出現偏熱及濕熱症狀。
生炒糯米飯
糯米性溫，可補中益氣，但由於其性質黏滯滋膩，難以消化、容易聚濕，胃脹不適者不宜多吃，而且生炒糯米飯的惹味源自同炒的臘腸及臘肉，油脂讓糯米飯更見油香，加上炸花生同吃，多吃易覺油膩且易上火。
煲仔飯
天寒地凍，在街邊吃一煲熱騰騰的炭爐煲仔飯，滿滿的材料還有粒粒飽滿的米飯，淋上豉油後更見焦香的飯焦，令人食指大動。煲仔飯配料多為肉類，窩蛋牛肉、北菇雞、臘腸，相對油膩，而且澆上豉油令味道更濃郁，屬肥甘厚味，飯焦亦屬熱氣，多吃易上火。
羊腩煲
不少人一入冬就會想到羊腩煲，由於羊肉屬溫補肉類，可驅寒補虛，固此有體弱多吃羊肉補益之說，對於畏冷人士尤其適合。羊腩多與冬菇、竹筍及枝竹齊烹調，建議吃羊腩煲時不要只吃肉類，冷落了其他配料，而且竹筍等更有清熱之效，吃羊腩煲溫補之餘也不怕燥。
麻油雞湯
來自台灣的溫補食療，以大量的黑麻油及薑配雞肉烹調，三種材料也屬溫熱性質，主要功效為驅寒保暖，因此很多人會在坐月期間進食作調補，絕不適合體質偏熱及濕熱人士食用。
藥膳醉雞鍋
雞湯有溫補作用人所皆知，藥膳雞多加入多種溫補藥材如紅棗、北芪、黨參、當歸、杞子、川芎，再加入黃酒或花雕。只聽藥材名也知道有多「補」，而且酒同為性溫，也易令身體聚濕，濕熱人士不宜多吃。
胡椒豬肚湯
每次吃潮州菜也缺不了一道胡椒豬肚湯，微微辛辣的胡椒湯，配上豬肚及鹹菜，鹹香滋味，喝後即時感覺肚子內暖暖的。胡椒性熱，可除胃寒及因虛寒而引起的泄瀉等。身體有熱以及陰虛火旺人士不宜多吃。
Winter nourishing dishes
The weather is getting colder and it might make you crave for winter yummy dishes such as stir fry glutinous rice, clay pot rice, lamb brisket pot, sesame oil chicken soup, herbal drunken chicken hot pot, pig stomach with pepper soup. You cannot help yourself but eat these. These winter dishes have something in common, they are all replenishing. People say eating too much can hurt the stomach, as the main ingredient of these foods are warm natured meats, are cooked with warm and hot natured ingredients and seasoning such as sesame oil, wine, pepper, and cooked by hot pot or baking with fire. Eating too much can lead to fire in the body. These foods are fatty to make you feel full and supply energy in the cold weather. If you eat a little, it can help the body to keep warm, but it is easy to get too stuffed if you eat too much. Besides gaining fat , you may become prone to heat-related and damp heat symptoms.
Stir fry glutinous rice
Glutinous rice is warm in nature, can replenish vital energy and nourish qi. Note that glutinous rice is more sticky and heavier, which makes it more difficult to digest and can cause stagnated dampness. Those with abdominal discomfort should not have too much. The oil of Chinese sausage and processed meat fried with glutinous rice make the dish delicious. Coupled with peanuts, the dish is extra oily and lead to fire in the body.
Claypot rice
It is great to have a hot clay pot rice in the cold weather on the street. It has rich ingredients and deliciously cooked rice. The added soy sauce makes the crunchy rice at the bottom of the pot. The ingredient of the claypot rice is mostly meat, such as minced beef with raw egg, chicken with Shitake mushroom and Chinese sausage, which are rather oily. The soy sauce enriches the taste, which make the dish oily and fatty. Eating too much crunchy rice at the bottom of the pot can easily lead to fire in body.
Lamb brisket pot
Many people think of lamb brisket pot in the beginning of winter. Lamb is a kind of replenishing meat, can dispel cold and improve deficiencies. So it is said that eating lamb can nourish the body for those with asthenic and weak body condition. It is especially suitable for those with aversion to cold. Lamb is cooked with Shitake mushroom, bamboo shoot and bean curd sheet, so it is suggested that to eat other ingredients as well and just the lamb. Moreover, bamboo shoot can clear heat, so it makes the lamb brisket pot nourishing and not dry.
Sesame oil chicken soup
This replenishing soup comes from Taiwan, cooked with a large amount of black sesame oil, ginger and chicken. These three ingredients are also warm and hot in nature. The main effect is to dispel cold and keep warm. Therefore, many people will have this soup during the confinement month to nourish the body. It is not suitable for those with heat-related and damp-heat body condition.
Herbal drunken chicken hot pot
It is well known that chicken soup has a replenishing effect. Herbal chicken is often added with a variety of replenishing herbs such as red dates, astragalus root, codonopsis root, wolfberries, Ligustici Chuanxiong, then add in rice wine (yellow wine) or Hua Diao Wine. Those ingredients are replenishing and wine is warm in nature. It can easily lead to stagnated dampness. Those with damp-heat should not eat too much.
Pig stomach with pepper soup
It is a must-eat dish in Chaozhou cuisine. The pepper soup is slightly spicy. It is deliciously salty with pig stomach and salted vegetables. You will feel warm after drinking the soup. Pepper is hot in nature, can dispel stomach cold and relieve diarrhea due to asthenic body and cold. Those with heat in the body and yin deficiency with excessive fire should not eat too much.
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