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Updated: 2007-08-17 09:48

 

Have special diet care in summer

To survive the hot weather, your body needs to make a lot of adjustments. The blood circulation, digestive and urinary systems all go through significant changes. And to help with the body’s adjustments, a boosted metabolism is ideal to increase consumption of nourishment in the body. As a result, it’s necessary to take special tonics in the summer to have more protein, vitamins, salt as well as water in your diet. Here are two recipes.

Straw mushroom lettuce soup

Straw mushroom is a cooling vegetable that’s rich in protein, fat, sugar, coarse fiber, calcium, iron and vitamin B1, B2 and C.

Ingredients:

200 grams of fresh straw mushrooms
300 grams of asparagus lettuce
10 grams of ginger
two preserved chilli peppers
salt for taste.

Method:

1 Wash the straw mushrooms, cut off their roots and then dice; peel the asparagus lettuce, cut it into slices and then wash them.

2 Stir-fry asparagus lettuce and straw mushroom together. Add ginger slices, salt and preserved chilli peppers as well as 700 grams of water into the pot. Cook them until the lettuce slices soften.

3 Take the ginger slices and chilli peppers out. The soup is done.

Colorful bean porridge

This dish stimulates the appetite and beans are good for your digestive system.

Ingredients:

1 gram of red beans, green beans, black beans, yellow beans
1 slice of orange peel
Some rice.

Method:

1 Put all beans, rice and orange peel in water and soak 4 hours.

2 Rinse them again before putting them all in a pot with clean water and let it boil.

3 When it begins to boil, transfer the porridge into an electric pot and let it simmer.

4 When it’s done, add some rock candy. Then you can have a pot of delicious sticky and soft porridge.

Edited by: Alice Yang

 

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