Fresh shiitake mushrooms are the best, they are fat, tender and thick, and taste very delicious; although the tenderness of dried shiitake mushrooms is not as good as that of fresh shiitake mushrooms, their freshness and fragrance are not inferior to fresh shiitake mushrooms. Because shiitake mushrooms contain a specific aroma substance – adenine, no matter vegetarian dishes or meat dishes, as long as an appropriate amount of shiitake mushrooms are added to cook, the fragrance and freshness of the dishes will increase sharply. There are many ways to eat shiitake mushrooms, which can be fried alone or used as ingredients. Stir-fried shiitake mushrooms are fragrant and tender, stir-fried cabbage heart with shiitake mushrooms, and shiitake mushroom tofu soup are rich in nutrition and delicious. Shiitake mushrooms are indispensable in vegetarian dishes. Vegetarian noodles, vegetarian dishes, and vegetarian soups should all be filled with shiitake mushrooms. Shiitake mushrooms can also be cooked with meat dishes, such as fried pork slices with shiitake mushrooms, stewed chicken with shiitake mushrooms, stewed fish with shiitake mushrooms, small row soup with shiitake mushrooms, etc., which are nutritious, delicious and delicious, and they are all dishes that people like to eat.
Shiitake mushroom is a high-quality food rich in polysaccharides, various enzymes, various amino acids, and various vitamins. Modern medical research has proved that shiitake mushrooms contain polysaccharides, which can improve the body’s immunity, inhibit the growth of cancer cells, and enhance the body’s anti-cancer effect. For example, patients with tumor resection often eat shiitake mushrooms, which can prevent tumor recurrence and metastasis. Shiitake mushrooms contain interferon-inducing agents, which can induce the production of interferon in the body and have the effect of preventing and treating influenza. Shiitake mushrooms are rich in alkaloids – shiitake mushroom purine, which has the effect of lowering blood cholesterol and can effectively prevent arteriosclerosis. It is a high-quality health food for patients with cardiovascular diseases. Shiitake mushrooms also contain a kind of black lentinin, which can calm the autonomic nerves located in the brain stem, strengthen the functions of important viscera such as the heart and liver, and enhance the functions of glands such as the thyroid and prostate. Therefore, middle-aged and elderly people often eat shiitake mushrooms, which have the health care functions of anti-aging, enhancing human vitality, and making people energetic.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that shiitake mushrooms are sweet in taste and flat in nature. Shortness of breath, fatigue, tumors and other diseases have a certain effect. Folks often use mushroom porridge to treat anemia; stir-fry ground chestnuts with mushrooms to treat high blood pressure; stew snails with mushrooms to treat children with rickets; However, because shiitake mushrooms are relatively greasy and stagnant, patients after illness, postpartum, and acne should eat less, and those with stagnation in colds should avoid eating. Here are a few delicious health-care recipes for mushrooms for readers to choose from——
Mushroom and Ham Porridge
Raw materials: 25 grams each of shiitake mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, and green beans, 50 grams of cooked ham, 15 grams of rice wine, 2 grams of pepper, 20 grams of sesame oil, 10 grams of chopped green onion, 5 grams of minced ginger, 1500 grams of broth, and 100 grams of glutinous rice.
Method: Cut the ham and winter bamboo shoots into the size of green beans, then wash the glutinous rice, put them into the pot, add broth, boil on high heat, add ham, winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, green beans, rice wine, green onions, ginger, etc., use small Cook over high heat to make porridge, add pepper and sesame oil and serve.
Benefits: thick porridge with mushroom fragrance, delicious, nourishing qi and blood, nourishing kidney and promoting body fluid, invigorating spleen and appetizing.
Stewed Mushrooms with Red Dates
Raw materials: 10 pieces of red dates, 20 pieces of dried shiitake mushrooms, appropriate amount of refined salt, rice wine, monosodium glutamate, sliced ginger, and refined vegetable oil.
Method: Soak red dates and shiitake mushrooms in warm water and wash them, take a stew pot with a cover, put in the clarified and filtered water for soaking shiitake mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, red dates, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, rice wine, ginger slices, and appropriate amount of vegetable oil. Cover the lid, steam and stew in a cage for about 1 hour, and serve immediately after taking out the cage.
Benefits: Mushroom-flavored and jujube-sweet, delicious, invigorating the middle and Qi, strong and anti-aging.
Stir-fried Choi Sum with Mushrooms
Raw materials: 200 grams each of fresh shiitake mushrooms and Chinese cabbage, 30 grams of chicken oil, 50 grams of soup, appropriate amount of refined salt, monosodium glutamate, water starch, and a little sesame oil.
Method: Remove the roots of the shiitake mushrooms, wash them, and cut them into thick shreds; wash the cabbage heart, and cut them into 4 pieces from the roots. After heating the pot, pour in the chicken oil. When the oil is 80% hot, add shredded shiitake mushrooms and Chinese cabbage and stir-fry for a few times. Cook until soft, put in water starch to thicken the soup, pour in sesame oil, and serve immediately.
Benefits: Fragrant and delicious, nourishing blood tonic, anti-cancer and anti-aging.
Stir-Fried Winter Bamboo Shoots with Mushrooms
Ingredients: 200 grams of fresh shiitake mushrooms, 150 grams of winter bamboo shoots, 50 grams of soup, 5 grams of ginger, 15 grams of chives, 40 grams of refined oil, appropriate amount of refined salt and monosodium glutamate, and a little water starch.
Method: Remove the roots of the shiitake mushrooms, wash them, and cut them into large pieces; remove the shells of the winter bamboo shoots, wash them, and cut them into thin slices; wash the ginger, and cut them into thin slices; wash the chives, and cut them into fine pieces. After heating the pot, pour in refined oil. When the oil is 70% hot, add ginger slices and minced chives to sauté until fragrant, add shiitake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots and stir fry for a few times, then pour in the soup and cook for a while. Add refined salt and monosodium glutamate to adjust the taste, thicken with starch, and serve.
Benefits: delicacies from the mountains, fresh fragrance, nourishing blood and qi, appetizing and helping food, anti-cancer and anti-cancer.
Stewed Mushroom and Fungus
Ingredients: 200 grams of fresh shiitake mushrooms, 150 grams of black fungus, 15 grams of chives, 5 grams of ginger, 10 grams of sesame oil, appropriate amount of refined salt and monosodium glutamate, and a little pepper.
Method: Wash the shiitake mushrooms by their roots and cut them into medium pieces; wash off the silt and drain the black fungus; wash the shallots and cut them into middle sections; wash the ginger and cut them into thin slices. Put the shiitake mushrooms, black fungus, and ginger slices into a bowl, sprinkle with shallots, add refined salt and monosodium glutamate to adjust the taste, put them in a steamer and simmer until they are cooked, take them out, sprinkle with pepper, and drizzle with sesame oil , ready to eat.
Benefits: Fresh and delicious, light and delicious, nourish blood and regulate fat, prevent cancer and fight cancer.
Mushroom and Winter Melon Soup
Ingredients: 100 grams of shiitake mushrooms, 500 grams of wax gourd and 500 grams of soup, 20 grams of chicken oil, 15 grams of chives, appropriate amount of refined salt and monosodium glutamate.
Method: Remove the roots of the shiitake mushrooms, wash them, and cut them into small pieces; remove the seeds of the wax gourd, wash them, and cut them into small pieces; wash the chives, and cut them into fine pieces. After heating the pot, add chicken oil. When the oil is 80% hot, add shiitake mushrooms and stir-fry until fragrant. Pour in wax gourd and stir-fry. Pour in the soup, boil over high heat, add refined salt and monosodium glutamate to adjust Taste, sprinkle with chopped chives, and serve.
Benefits: Light and delicious, clearing heat and diuresis, nourishing yin and preventing diseases.
Mushroom Tofu Soup
Ingredients: 100 grams of fresh shiitake mushrooms, 1 box of lactone tofu, 50 grams of fresh bamboo shoots, 15 grams of chives, 25 grams of refined vegetable oil, 500 grams of soup, appropriate amount of refined salt and monosodium glutamate, and a little sesame oil.
Method: Wash the shiitake mushrooms and cut them into small pieces; cut the tofu into small pieces; wash the bamboo shoots and cut them into small pieces; wash the shallots and cut them into fine pieces. After heating the pot, pour in vegetable oil. When the oil is 80% hot, add shiitake mushrooms and bamboo shoots and stir-fry for a few times, pour in the soup, add tofu cubes, boil over high heat, add refined salt and monosodium glutamate to adjust Taste, sprinkle chopped chives, drizzle with sesame oil, and serve.
Benefits: light and delicious, nourishing blood and nourishing yin, nourishing deficiency and preventing disease.
Stir-Fried Chestnuts with Mushrooms
Raw materials: 200 grams of fresh shiitake mushrooms, 100 grams of clean chestnut meat, 15 grams each of chives and sugar, 5 grams of ginger, 30 grams of refined vegetable oil, 50 grams of soup, 20 grams of soy sauce and water starch, appropriate amount of refined salt and monosodium glutamate, sesame oil a little.
Method: Remove the roots of the shiitake mushrooms, wash them, and cut them into small pieces; wash the chestnut meat, and cut them into small pieces; wash the chives, and cut them into fine pieces; wash the ginger, and cut them into thin slices. After heating the pot, pour in vegetable oil. When the oil is 70% hot, add chopped shallots and ginger slices to sauté until fragrant. Cover and simmer for 3 minutes on low heat. Thicken with water starch, drizzle with sesame oil, and serve on a plate.
Benefits: crispy and tender, fresh and refreshing, nourishing kidney and Qi, strengthening bones and waist.