Steamed chicken with Wuzi(wu zi zheng ji )

Steamed chicken with five seeds

Raw materials for steamed chicken with five seeds

One live hen (weighing about 750 g), 20 lotus seeds, 10 wolfberry seeds, 10 red dates, 10 pine nuts, 10 Schisandra chinensis, 30 g Shaojiu, 25 g scallion, 25 g ginger and 7.5 g refined salt.

Five steamed chicken production steps:

The live hens were slaughtered and treated. They were put into a pot to get water, added with onion, ginger and Shaoxing wine. After boiling, skim the froth and boil until the blood was broken. Remove the original soup and hang it for use. Peel lotus seeds, blanch "four seeds" and wash them. Cut the chicken from the back, cut off the big bone (long triangle), buckle into the pot, put in "Wuzi", pour in the original soup, add refined salt, seal with preservative paper and cover. Steam for 3 hours until crispy. Remove the cover and remove the sealing paper.

Characteristics of Wuzi steamed chicken

The soup is silvery red, clear and bottoming out. The meat is fresh, tender, crisp and salty. It also has the effect of improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure, nourishing blood and calming nerves.

Steamed chicken with Wuzi

Wuzi steamed chicken is a famous dish in Jiangsu Province, which belongs to Jiangsu cuisine. It is mainly made of hens. Its cooking skills are mainly steamed dishes, and its taste is salty and delicious. The soup is silvery red in color, clear and bottoming out. The meat is fresh, tender, crisp and salty. It also has the effect of improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure, nourishing blood and calming nerves.

Dish name

Steamed chicken with Wuzi

Cuisine

Jiangsu cuisine

characteristic

The soup is silvery red in color, clear and bottoming out. The meat is fresh, tender, crisp and rotten, with rich flavor. It is not only nutritious, but also has the functions of tonifying deficiency, strengthening Yin and essence, improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure, strengthening stomach and calming nerves.

raw material

One live hen (weighing about 750 g). There were 20 lotus seeds, 10 wolfberry seeds, 10 red dates, 10 pine seeds and 10 Schisandra chinensis. Shaojiu 30g, onion 25g, ginger 25g, salt 7.5G.

Production process

The live hens were slaughtered and cleaned up. They were put into a pot of water and added with Tibetan ginger and Shaoxing wine. After boiling, skim the froth and boil until the blood was broken. Then they were taken out and the original soup was suspended for use. Remove the skin and heart of lotus seeds, and wash the "four seeds" of lotus seeds. Cut the chicken from the back, cut off the big bone (long triangle), buckle into the pot, put in the "five Yu", pour in the original soup, add refined salt, seal with preservative paper and cover. Steam for 3 hours until crispy. Remove the cover and remove the sealing paper.

Menu introduction

Chicken can tonify five viscera and treat deficiency cold of spleen and stomach. "Five seeds", namely lotus seed, wolfberry seed, jujube, pine seed and Schisandra chinensis, are all traditional Chinese medicine supplements with their own functions. The combination of chicken and "Wuzi" to make Wuzi steamed chicken can not only keep fit, but also have unique flavor. Yuan Mei of Qing dynasty recorded in Suiyuan Shidan that there are 50 kinds of Yuzu's single, among which Huang's steamed chicken has its unique feature, which can treat weak diseases.

dietary nutrition

Hens: hens have a high proportion of meat protein, many kinds and high digestibility, which can be easily absorbed and used by the human body, and can enhance physical strength and strengthen the body. Hen meat contains phospholipids which play an important role in human growth and development. It is one of the important sources of fat and phospholipids in Chinese dietary structure. Hen meat has a good therapeutic effect on malnutrition, fear of cold, fatigue, irregular menstruation, anemia, weakness and so on. Lotus seed: lotus seed is good at tonifying the deficiency of five internal organs, unblocking the Qi and blood of twelve meridians, making Qi and blood smooth but not rotten. The oxidized palmatine contained in lotus seed has inhibitory effect on nasopharyngeal carcinoma. All these constitute the nutritional and health care function of lotus seed in preventing cancer and anticancer. The non crystalline alkaloid N-9 contained in lotus seed has antihypertensive effect. The alkaloid contained in lotus seed core has significant cardiotonic effect, while Liensinine has anti-cancer effect It has strong anti calcium and anti arrhythmia effect; raffinose contained in lotus seed is a tonic for all ages, especially for those who are chronically ill, postpartum or old with body deficiency; Liensinine has the effect of calming sexual desire, and has a good effect of stopping astringent essence for young people who have many dreams, frequent spermatorrhea or spermatorrhea.

Wolfberry: wolfberry is rich in carotene, vitamin A, B1, B2, C, calcium, iron and other essential nutrients for eye health care, so it is good at eyesight, so it is commonly known as "mingyanzi". In the past dynasties, Chinese wolfberry was often used in the treatment of asthenia of vision and night blindness caused by liver blood deficiency and kidney yin deficiency. The famous prescription Qiju Dihuang Pill took Chinese wolfberry as the main drug. Lycium barbarum is also used to treat chronic eye diseases in the folk, and steamed eggs with Lycium barbarum is a simple and effective food therapy. Lycium barbarum has the function of improving the body's immunity. It can tonify Qi and essence, nourish liver and kidney, resist senility, stop thirst, warm the body and resist tumor. Lycium barbarum can reduce blood pressure, blood lipid and blood glucose, prevent arteriosclerosis, protect liver, inhibit fatty liver and promote hepatocyte regeneration.

Jujube: jujube contains vitamin A, C, e, P, biotin, carotene, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and other minerals, folic acid, pantothenic acid, niacin and so on. Jujube can improve human immunity and inhibit cancer cells. Pharmacological studies have found that jujube can promote the generation of white blood cells, reduce serum cholesterol, increase serum albumin, protect liver. Jujube also contains substances that inhibit cancer cells, and even make cancer cells transform into normal cells. Pine nut: pine nut is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid, which can reduce blood lipid and prevent cardiovascular disease; pine nut contains a large number of minerals, such as calcium, iron and potassium, which can provide rich nutrients to the body tissue, strengthen muscles and bones, eliminate fatigue, and have great benefits for the health care of the elderly; pine nut contains vitamin E as high as 30%, which has a good effect on softening blood vessels, reducing blood pressure and reducing fatigue It is an ideal health food for middle-aged and old people, and it is also an ideal food for women's skin moistening and beauty. Pine nut is rich in fatty oil, which can moisten the intestines and relieve constipation without damaging healthy qi. It has a certain therapeutic effect on the body deficiency constipation of the elderly and the body deficiency constipation of children. The fatty components in pine nut are unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid and linoleic acid, which have a good effect on softening blood vessels It is an ideal health food for the middle-aged and old people; the content of phosphorus and manganese in pine nut is rich, which has a tonic effect on the brain and nerves. It is a good brain tonic product for students and mental workers, and also has a good preventive effect on Alzheimer's disease.

Suitable for people

Hens are suitable for people

It's edible for most people.

1. Hens are Yin in sex, which are suitable for the elderly, children, women, puerpera and the weak.

2. People with cold and fever, excessive fire and heat, severe phlegm and dampness, obesity, heat and toxin boil, high blood pressure and high blood fat should not eat; chicken soup contains more fat, which will further increase blood cholesterol, cause arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease, and continuously increase blood pressure, which is unfavorable to the condition; people with cholecystitis and cholelithiasis should not eat. So as not to stimulate gallbladder and cause colic attack. Gout patients should not drink chicken soup.

Lotus seed is suitable for people

It can be eaten by the general population

1. It is suitable for people with weak constitution, palpitation, insomnia, dreaminess and spermatorrhea; it is suitable for people with spleen qi deficiency and chronic diarrhea; it is suitable for cancer patients and after radiotherapy and chemotherapy; it is suitable for people with excessive leucorrhea due to deficiency of spleen and kidney;

2. People who usually have dry stools or full abdomen should not eat.

Lycium barbarum is suitable for people

It can be used by the average person.

1. It is suitable for patients with Yin deficiency of liver and kidney, cancer, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, chronic hepatitis and fatty liver; it is more suitable for those with excessive eye use and the elderly.

2. It is not suitable for patients with exogenous excess heat and diarrhea due to spleen deficiency.

Jujube is suitable for people

It can be eaten by the general population

1. It is suitable for middle-aged and old people, teenagers and women;

2. People with excessive dampness or abdominal distension should not eat; people with chronic diseases, food accumulation, constipation, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not eat more; people with dental caries, toothache and phlegm heat cough should not eat.

Pine nuts are suitable for people

It can be eaten by the general population

1. It is suitable for middle-aged and old people with weak constitution, dry stool, chronic bronchitis and long cough without phlegm; it is suitable for people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases;

2. It should not be used for loose stools, fine and smooth stools, cough, phlegm and diarrhea; it should be used with caution for those with severe biliary dysfunction due to rich fat.

Dietotherapy

The diet therapy effect of hens is as follows

The old hen has the effect of warming the middle of the body and replenishing qi, tonifying deficiency and fatigue, strengthening spleen and stomach.

It can be used for the treatment of deficiency of food, fatigue, thirst, edema and other diseases.

The therapeutic effect of lotus seed is as follows

It is smooth in nature, sweet and astringent in taste, and enters the heart, spleen and kidney meridians;

Tonifying the spleen and stopping diarrhea, tonifying the kidney and astringent clearing, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. It is used for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, enuresis, palpitation and insomnia.

It is mainly used for night sleep, insomnia, forgetfulness, upset and thirsty, low back pain, weak feet, deafness of ears and eyes, spermatorrhea, drenching, dysentery, diarrhea, metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia in women, and stomach deficiency without appetite.

Lotus seed core tastes bitter, but it has a significant heart strengthening effect, can expand peripheral blood vessels, reduce blood pressure; lotus seed core also has a good effect of dispelling heart fire, can treat aphthous ulcer, and help sleep.

The therapeutic effect of Lycium barbarum L

Lycium barbarum is sweet in taste and flat in nature; it belongs to liver, kidney and lung meridians; its quality moistens and harmonizes Qi, and it can rise or fall;

It has the functions of tonifying kidney and essence, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, moistening lung and promoting body fluid;

Indications: deficiency of liver and kidney, weakness of waist and knee, impotence, spermatorrhea, dizziness, blurred vision, fatigue cough, thirst.

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