"What Should I Eat to Nourish My Stomach in Winter? Winter Stomach-Soothing Recipe Recommendations"

Winter Stomach Care and Recipes

Winter brings cold weather, and our stomachs are prone to discomfort. As a result, stomach ailments are more common during winter than other seasons. To prevent winter stomach problems, it's essential to nourish your stomach. Here are some winter stomach-friendly recipes.

Winter Stomach Care Recipes

1. Crucian Carp Soup with Pepper and Ginger: Use 500g of crucian carp, cleaned and sliced. Boil water and add fermented black beans, pepper, dried ginger, and dried orange peel. Consume on an empty stomach. Ideal for those who feel weak, have a full stomach, feel cold, prefer warmth, and have cold extremities.

2. Chicken Gizzard Powder: Mix 3g of chicken gizzard membrane and 6g of rhubarb seeds, roast and grind into a powder. Divide into three portions and take with warm water. Suitable for those with stomach pain, bloating, anorexia, nausea, and vomiting, with pain relief after vomiting.

3. Lotus Root Starch: Use 15g of lotus root starch or water chestnut powder. Suitable for those with stomach heat, dull pain, dry mouth and throat, dry stools, and hot palms and soles.

4. Ginger and Red Date Drink: Use 5 slices of ginger and 10 red dates. Fry the ginger in oil and boil with water as a tea substitute. Pepper and Ginger Porridge: Add 1g of pepper powder to 50g of rice or millet and cook into a porridge. Suitable for those with cold stomachs, pain, chills, and even boredom, with clear saliva vomiting.

5. Radish Seed Porridge: Roast radish seeds, grind into a powder, and cook with rice into a porridge. Suitable for bloating and lack of appetite, especially those with a sour taste in their mouths.

6. Red Date and White Fungus Soup - Benefits: Tonifies deficiency, nourishes qi, enriches blood, calms the mind, strengthens the spleen and stomach. Ingredients: White fungus, red dates, old rock sugar. Instructions: Cut the white fungus into small pieces, remove the roots, soak in water overnight, rinse, drain, and set aside. Cut the red dates into small pieces and remove the pits. Add water and red dates to a soup pot, bring to a boil, add the soaked white fungus, simmer for 40 minutes, add old rock sugar, and cool before serving.

7. Peanut and Millet Porridge - Ingredients: 50g millet, 50g peanuts, 30g red beans,桂花糖 (guihua tang, a type of sweet syrup), and rock sugar to taste. Instructions: Soak millet, peanuts, and red beans in water for 4 hours, rinse, and set aside. Add water to a pot, bring to a boil, add peanuts and red beans, simmer for 30 minutes, add millet, cook until soft, add rock sugar and guihua tang.

8. Yam and Snow Peas - Benefits: Strengthens the spleen and stomach, aids digestion, nourishes the kidneys and essence, benefits the lungs and alleviates cough, promotes longevity. Ingredients: 200g snow peas, 100g yam, half a yellow bell pepper, half a red bell pepper, 3 cloves of garlic, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and chicken bouillon to taste. Instructions: Wash snow peas, remove strings, slice red and yellow bell peppers, wash and peel yam, slice. Boil water, blanch yam for 30 seconds, drain, and rinse with cold water. Heat 2 teaspoons of oil in a pan, add garlic and fry until fragrant, add snow peas and fry, add 1-2 tablespoons of water to ensure they're cooked through, add salt and chicken bouillon, stir in yam and bell peppers until cooked.

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