This is how you can take care of your immunity in winter

Winter is cold and is a high-incidence period for diseases. If the human body's immunity is low, it is easy to be attacked by diseases. So, what should you eat if you have low immunity? Today, the editor recommends delicious home-cooked recipes that are nutritious and delicious, easy and convenient to make by yourself, and eating them regularly can improve your immunity, resist disease bacteria, and prevent you from catching a cold this winter.

Stir-fried mushrooms - enhance immunity

Ingredients: equal amounts of soaked shiitake mushrooms and fresh mushrooms, and appropriate amounts of vegetable oil, soy sauce, sugar, water starch, MSG, salt, rice wine, minced ginger, fresh soup, and sesame oil.

Preparation method: Wash and slice shiitake mushrooms and fresh mushrooms, heat the wok and add oil, add the mushrooms and stir-fry, then add ginger, soy sauce, sugar and rice wine and continue to stir-fry to make them taste good. Add the fresh soup and bring to a boil, then add MSG and salt, thicken with water starch, drizzle with sesame oil and serve.

Efficacy: It can enhance the body's immune function and is more suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia.

Shiitake mushrooms have the nutritional characteristics of high protein, low fat, polysaccharides, multiple amino acids and multiple vitamins, and can help lower cholesterol and blood pressure.

Shiitake mushrooms contain a kind of maltol that is lacking in general vegetables. It can be converted into vitamin D, promote the absorption of calcium in the body, and enhance the body's ability to resist disease. Eating more mushrooms can help prevent colds and other diseases.

Fried Chinese cabbage with dried shrimps - Improve gastrointestinal function

Ingredients: 1 bundle of Chinese cabbage, a handful of dried shrimps, and some chopped green onions.

Method: Wash the Chinese cabbage, cut into 5-6cm long sections, and blanch in boiling water. Chop the green onion into chopped pieces. While the water is boiling, soak the dried shrimps in clean water for 5 minutes and then wash them clean. Pour oil into a hot pan, add chopped green onion when the oil is 50% hot, then add the bok choy and stir-fry. After 2 minutes, add the washed dried shrimps and continue stir-frying for a few more times, then serve.

Efficacy: Fried Chinese cabbage with dried shrimp is rich in nutrients. Chinese cabbage is rich in crude fiber, while dried shrimp contains a large amount of calcium, protein and minerals.

Modern nutrition research shows that eating more crude fiber foods has four major benefits: first, it improves gastrointestinal function, which can prevent constipation and colon cancer; second, it improves blood sugar production, lowers postprandial blood sugar levels, and helps treat diabetes; third, it lowers plasma cholesterol levels, prevents hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular diseases; fourth, it controls weight and reduces the occurrence of obesity.

Gastrodia elata stewed black chicken - regulating endocrine

Ingredients: 1 black chicken (about 750 grams), 25 grams of Gastrodia elata, 10 grams each of Chuanxiong and white Poria cocos, 5 grams of ginger slices, 10 grams of cooking wine, appropriate amount of refined salt, and a few coriander segments.

Method: Put the black chicken in cold water, bring to a boil, and blanch to remove the blood foam; wash the Chinese medicine, put it into the chicken's belly, and sew the opening with thread. Put the black chicken into a casserole, add ginger slices, cooking wine and appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for about 1 hour, add salt and simmer for about 20 minutes until the ingredients are cooked, sprinkle with coriander.

Efficacy: Black chicken contains lysine, methionine and histidine, which are indispensable to the human body, and has a very high nourishing and medicinal value. In particular, it is rich in melanin, which has extremely high nourishing and medicinal value. It has the effects of nourishing yin, nourishing the kidney, nourishing blood, increasing essence, benefiting the liver, reducing fever and replenishing deficiency. It can regulate human immune function and resist aging. It has been known as "medicine chicken" since old age. Gastrodia elata, Chuanxiong and Poria cocos are all effective in assisting the treatment of dizziness, headache, insomnia and other symptoms caused by neurasthenia.