Red dates originated in China and have a cultivation history of more than 4,000 years in China.As the saying goes, "If you eat three dates a day, you don't need to look for them."The status of red dates in the health industry is self-evident.
Traditional Chinese medicine theory believes that red dates have the effects of replenishing deficiency and replenishing qi, nourishing blood and calming the mind, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and are good nutritional foods for patients with weak spleen and stomach, insufficient qi and blood, fatigue, insomnia and dreams.
Can red dates replenish blood?
The common people often link "iron replenishment" and "blood replenishment". In fact, the two are not the same concept in themselves.
In Western medicine, iron supplementation can increase the absorption of iron and improve the formation of blood, such as red blood cells, and is often used to treat iron deficiency anemia.
As a traditional Chinese medicine concept, blood replenishment refers to helping "blood" better nourish the body on the basis of improving the formation of components.
Although some people have normal blood tests, they have symptoms such as sallow complexion, dizziness, palpitations, insomnia, and weak pulse. Traditional Chinese medicine syndrome is considered blood deficiency.Eating red dates at this time can make full use of its good spleen-strengthening and blood-replenishing effects.
4 ways to eat red dates
Eat raw
Don't exceed 15 per day.For medium-sized red dates, the amount of edible should be controlled within one handful every day. Excessive consumption can easily cause abdominal distension;Red dates have a lot of sugar, and diabetics should eat less. It is recommended not to exceed 2 pills per day.
Soak in water
It is best to break open and bubble.The peel of red dates is tough and difficult to digest. The whole piece is brewed with its effective ingredients and is not easy to dissolve. It is best to soak the big red date in water. Tear or cut it open with your hands before soaking;Fresh red dates should not be soaked and cooked to avoid hot water from destroying the vitamin C。
Cook porridge
Promotes nutrient absorption.Use red dates to cook soup and porridge, and their effective substances are easier to dissolve. Cook them with millet and you can also get more B Vitamins.Boiled with Tremella can help calm the mind and sleep, relieve cough and moisten the lungs.
Steam
Suitable for people with weak gastrointestinal function.Steamed red dates have easier skin and flesh to digest and absorb, making them very suitable for children, the elderly and people with indigestion.Eating more steamed dates can also prevent asthma.
Red dates have 4 "golden pairings"
Red dates are more warm and nourishing, and when paired with the following foods, they can double the health effect.
1、red dates +Longan: Protect your throat and drive away cold
Boiling red dates and longan together with soup or tea can help nourish qi and protect the throat, and have a certain warming effect. It is suitable for teachers and people with high frequency of using their throats and people with cold constitutions and prone to cold hands and feet.
2、red dates +Ginger: Warm the stomach and drive away cold
After sliced and cooked the appropriate amount of ginger and red dates, put it warm, add some rock sugar, drink a cup, which will help drive away cold and moisten the dryness and resist the severe winter.
3、red dates +Angelica: Relieve constipation
Soak the angelica in warm water for a while, add water to boil it into a thick juice. After removing the residue, add appropriate amount of water with red dates, japonica rice and white sugar, and cook until it becomes porridge, which can relieve constipation and replenish qi and blood.
4、red dates +Tremella: Moisturizes the lungs and nourishes the skin
Make soup with red dates, tremella and rock sugar to relieve cough and moisten the lungs, nourish yin and nourish the skin.Cooking red dates with coix seed rice, ginkgo, longan with appropriate amount of brown sugar or rock sugar can reduce the acne on the skin and moisturize the skin.
More ways to eat red dates
1
Osmanthus glutinous rice with jujube
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Material:
Red dates, glutinous rice flour, rock sugar, osmanthus candy, white sesame seeds
step:
1、Wash the red dates and soak them for 2 hours.
2、Add appropriate amount of water to knead the glutinous rice balls.
3、Cut the red dates into the hole and remove the pits.
4、Take an appropriate amount of glutinous rice balls and fill them into the opening of the red dates.
5、Steam it in a pot.
5、Add rock sugar to the cold pot and turn on the fire to completely melt. Turn off the heat and pour the rock syrup slowly and evenly on the glutinous rice and red dates. If the speed is slow, the syrup can slowly cool down and form a silky shape.
6、Drizzle two spoonfuls of osmanthus
7、Sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve.
2
Golden glutinous rice cake
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Material:
200 grams of glutinous rice, 50 grams of peanuts, 10 grams of black sesame seeds, 15 red dates
step:
1、Wash peanuts and red dates
2、Soak the glutinous rice in water for 3 hours and drain the water
3、Steam the red dates and glutinous rice in two layers in a steamer for 30 minutes
4、At the same time as steaming glutinous rice and red dates, stir-fry the black sesame seeds on a low heat and serve for later use.
5、Add a little oil into the pot and continue to stir-fry the peanuts over low heat
6、Take out the red dates, add some water to stir the glutinous rice and continue steaming for 30 minutes
7、All the ingredients are cooked
8、Put the cooled peanuts into the fresh-keeping bag (I used plastic wrap)
9、Fold the plastic wrap and cover the peanuts with a rolling pin
10、Cut the red dates into pieces and set aside
11、Steam the glutinous rice and let it cool down. Take a container that can be fixed, brush the container with thin oil to prevent sticking, and put a layer of glutinous rice first.
12、Then put a layer of red dates, then a layer of glutinous rice, compact it, fold the glutinous rice cake upside down on the chopping board and cut it into pieces, then sprinkle the peanuts evenly, and finally add black sesame on the top to decorate it.
3
Sweet red date rice dumplings
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Material:
Glutinous rice 500 g， 100 red dates g， Appropriate amount of sugar, appropriate amount of olive oil
step:
1、Put the rice dumpling leaves in boiling water and soften them. Take them out and wash them with clean water. Use scissors to cut off the front strip part.
2、Soak the glutinous rice in clean water for 3-4 hours, then remove and wash and dry the water, add appropriate amount of sugar and olive oil and mix well
3、Roll the treated leaves into a funnel shape, add glutinous rice to half of the funnel, and put the pitted red dates
4、Add another handful of glutinous rice to cover the red dates
5、Stack the rice dumpling leaves in one direction and completely wrap the glutinous rice
6、Folded into a triangle shape, tied with cotton thread
7、In this way, wrap all the rice dumplings in turn
8、Put the rice dumplings into the voltage cooker and add water to the rice dumpling noodles
9、Cook until 3-4 hours
4
Healthy bean porridge
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Material:
Little White Kidney Beans 70 g， Red beans 60 g， Rice 50 g， Red dates 30 g， Rock sugar appropriate amount
step:
1、Wash all materials
2、Put it in an electric pressure cooker, add appropriate amount of water and rock sugar, and turn on the porridge /Soup key
3、After about half an hour, the porridge was cooked.
5
Rock sugar red date yam
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Material:
Half a yam, appropriate amount of red dates, a small handful of rock sugar
step:
1、Yam hob cuts
2、Blanch the yam in water to prevent the yam from turning yellow after it is cooked
3、Take out the yam and put it in the basin
4、Soak the dates in warm water and put them in a basin
5、Add a handful of rock sugar
6、Steam in a pot for half an hour
7、Put it on the pan. If there is osmanthus honey, it will taste better after pouring it in.
6
Codonopsis pilosula red date purple rice porridge
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Material:
Rice 50 g， Purple rice 50 g， Codonopsis 5 g， 7 red dates
step:
1、Clean and soak the purple rice and rice for 20 minutes
2、Wash Codonopsis and red dates to prevent dust
3、Put all the ingredients into the rice cooker
4、Add water and add rock sugar
5、Select the "Cooking Porridge" program for the rice cooker, and you can eat it after the program is over.
