Fried Lentils Chinese Medicine

Lentils have a crispy texture, so they are a vegetable that appears frequently on our daily tables. In addition, lentils are also a very good Chinese medicinal material in traditional Chinese medicine because they have the effect of removing dampness and removing gas. In the process of making lentils, people have invented many different methods, all of which can effectively preserve the nutritional value of the lentils themselves. Let’s learn together how to make lentils.

How to make Chinese medicinal lentils

Lentils are also known as mung beans, Emei beans, sheep's eye beans, tea beans, etc. They are cultivated in all parts of my country. Their young pods are oblong, broad and thick, like a crescent, flat and slightly curved. There are many ways to cook lentils, and their main purpose is to better absorb the nutrients in them. Here is how to cook lentils.

1. Stir-fried lentils

Ingredients: 250g lentils

Seasoning: salad oil, 2 tablespoons seafood sauce

practice:

1. Remove the two ends of the lentils and wash them clean;

2. Bring water to a boil and blanch the lentils;

3. Add half a spoon of cooking oil;

4. After the water boils again, take out the lentils, quickly rinse with cold water, and drain;

5. Heat the pan with cold oil and add lentils;

6. Add about two spoons of seafood sauce;

7. Add a small bowl of boiling water and stir fry continuously before serving.

Tips:

1. To make the lentils tasty, seafood sauce, hot sauce or bean paste are good ways to do it. In this way, you don’t need to add any other seasonings;

2. Add a little water and stir-fry continuously during the dry-frying process, so that the lentils will not taste dry and will be more flavorful.

2. Stir-fried lentils and pork

Main ingredients: appropriate amount of lentils, 1 piece of pork tenderloin, 1 bell pepper

Seasoning: salt, 2 slices of ginger, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 teaspoon of cooking wine, 1 tablespoon of light soy sauce, 1 teaspoon of dark soy sauce, 1/2 teaspoon of oyster sauce, 1 teaspoon of starch, a little sugar

practice:

1. Clean the pork tenderloin and cut it into strips along the texture of the meat. Remove the old tendons from the lentils and cut them into strips diagonally. Cut the ginger into shreds, wash the green pepper and cut it into thin shreds, and cut the garlic into thin slices for later use.

2. Mix the chopped pork with light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, cooking wine, salt (1 gram), sugar, oyster sauce, dry starch and a little vegetable oil, and marinate for about 5 minutes.

3. Pour oil into the pot. When the oil temperature is 50% hot, add the marinated pork shreds. Fry the pork shreds over medium heat until white, then serve.

4. Add oil to the pot again. When the oil temperature reaches 40% hot, add half of the garlic slices and ginger shreds, stir-fry until fragrant. Add the stir-fried bean shreds and stir-fry over medium heat. When the lentil shreds become soft and turn emerald green, pour in light soy sauce, add green pepper shreds and the fried pork shreds, and continue to stir-fry for 1 minute.

5. When the lentil shreds are about to be served, sprinkle with the remaining garlic slices.

Nutritional value of Chinese medicine lentil

Lentils are rich in nutrients, including protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, dietary fiber, provitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, cyanogenic glycosides, tyrosinase, etc. The lentil skin is particularly rich in B vitamins. In addition, there are phospholipids, sucrose, glucose, etc. Below we bring you the nutritional value of Chinese medicinal lentils.

1. Lentils contain non-specific agglutinins for human red blood cells, which have certain globulin properties;

2. Two different lectins can be isolated from lentils. Lectin A is insoluble in water and has no anti-trypsin activity.

3. Lentils also contain hemagglutinin, a protein substance that can increase the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid, inhibit the immune response and the movement of white blood cells and lymphocytes. Therefore, it can activate the lymphocytes of tumor patients to produce lymphotoxins, which have non-specific damaging effects on body cells.

4. Lentils are rich in protein and various amino acids. Regular consumption can strengthen the spleen and stomach, increase appetite, relieve heat and cleanse the mouth.

5. Lentils are rich in vitamin C and iron. Regular consumption is beneficial for patients with iron deficiency anemia.