Walnuts find way into Spring Festival fare
By Liu Zhihua | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2016-12-15 16:16
With the Spring Festival approaching, the California Walnut Commission is offering innovative and healthy Spring Festival recipes, which combine walnuts with traditional Chinese cuisine.
The organization recently organized a cooking class in Beijing to show how walnuts can be incorporated into popular Chinese holiday dishes for a healthy and balanced diet, including a dish with pig's trotters, tomatoes and walnuts.
Walnuts a are good source of magnesium and phosphorus, which are important for energy metabolism and bone health and are responsible for helping regulate heart rhythm, the commission said.
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