Stewed bamboo shoots- Chinese food and nutritious recipe

Stewed Bamboo shoots

StewedBamboo shoots

Ingredients

500g of fresh bamboo shoots

Seasoning

sunfloweroil

2tbsp soy sauce

1tbsp salt

1and ½ sugar tbsp

1tbsp sesame oil

1tbsp Sichuanpepper

16minutes

Preparation method

1.Clean and cut the bamboo shoots into pieces.

2.In a saucepan, heat the sunflower oil, add pepper Sichuan. Then sauté the bamboo shoots.

3.Add soy sauce, sugar and water and cook over low heat for 5 minutes.

4.As soon as the cooking liquid thickens, pour sesame oil. Serve.

Nutritional value and smart health benefits of Chinese food bamboo shoot

In China, bamboo shoot is regarded since ancient times as a “treasure food”. In the past, many people think that bamboo shoots are delicious, but no nutrition, and some even think that once bamboo shoot consumption equals the three-day fat removal, this understanding is not accurate.

The bamboo shoot is rich in proteins, amino acids, lipids, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, vitamins B1, B2, C, vitamin content and carotene is more than twice as cabbage, and protein bamboo shoot are superior. In addition, it contains a certain amount of the essential lysine, tryptophan, threonine, phenylalanine, glutamic acid, glutamate plays an important role in protein metabolism process, and cystine which maintains the conformation of protein. It is an excellent vegetable for health. The bamboo shoot also has the characteristics of low-fat, high-sugar, high in fiber, so bamboo shoot of consumption not only can promote intestinal peristalsis, help digestion, removing food retention, and prevent constipation, it can also prevent colon cancer. The bamboo shoot is low in fat and starch, is a natural product with low fat and calories, it becomes a best food for the obese lose weight.

Chinese food bamboo shoot for your natural health and cures:

Chinese medicine believes that the bamboo shoot nature is sweet, a little cold, and non-toxic. As a medicinal plant, it can cool the heat, resolving sputum, tone energy, harmonize the stomach, treat diabetes , promoting the diaphragm, and tone the stomach, etc. In the province of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the growth of bamboo is used as a drug, known as ” worm bamboo shoot “, it is an effective diuretic for edema , swelling of the foot, edema of acute nephritis, cough etc. In addition, young bamboo leaves, bamboo shavings and bamboo juice can all be used as medicine 

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