Spring is the beginning of a new year, when everything comes back to life, and the animals that have hibernate all winter are gradually waking up. For human health, spring is also the time to nourish the body, in Sun Simiao's "Qianjin Fang" wrote: Spring should eat porridge, porridge is mainly rice, supplemented by water, sweet and soft glutinous is also easy to digest and absorb.
Chinese have a history of drinking porridge for 2,000 years, which was first recorded in the Book of Zhou, which was still eaten as a medicine, and it was also the best means at that time. Later, people added some medicinal and edible foods to the porridge to complement each other.
Today, I will introduce to you five kinds of healthy porridge suitable for consumption in spring, nourish the liver, strengthen the spleen, enhance the body's resistance, and are not easy to get sick in summer.
Yam and gourd porridge
Ingredients: yam, lotus seeds, red adzuki beans, barley, rice, seeds.
Directions: Wash all of the above foods and soak them for an hour. (Remove the skin of the yam before soaking and cut it to prevent oxidation during soaking) After that, add an appropriate amount of water to the electric pressure cooker and select the porridge cooking function. If you like sweetness, you can add an appropriate amount of rock sugar to taste during the boiling process.
This porridge has the effect of dispelling dampness and reducing swelling, replenishing qi and blood, and strengthening the spleen and stomach.
Milk rice porridge
Ingredients: 2520 grams of milk, 100 grams of rice, 10 grams of sugar.
Method: Place the above ingredients together in a casserole and cook thoroughly.
Milk contains a lot of protein, calcium, magnesium, sugar, and a variety of vitamins, which is easy to digest and absorb, and has the effects of inhibiting tumors, calming the nerves, strengthening the spleen, and eliminating fatigue.
Pork liver and mung bean porridge
Ingredients: 75 grams of pork liver, 100 grams of rice, 50 grams of mung beans.
Method: Cut fresh pork liver into thin slices and boil it with rice and mung beans to make porridge.
Pork liver has the effect of nourishing blood and anti-cancer, while mung bean has the effect of quenching thirst and diuretic, clearing heat and detoxifying, and emollient. The two are boiled into porridge and eaten, which can play a role in nourishing the liver and blood, clearing heat and detoxifying, and is especially suitable for people with dull and yellow complexion caused by insufficient liver qi.
Ginger mutton porridge
Ingredients: 100 grams of rice, 60 grams of cooked mutton, 10 grams of minced ginger.
Method: Cook rice, cooked mutton, and minced ginger together and serve.
Mutton has the effect of repelling cold and replenishing deficiency and kidney; Ginger can diffuse wind chill and help yang. When the two are eaten together, it can enhance the body's immunity and better resist the invasion of diseases. In the spring, the elderly have poor immunity, and you can drink this porridge to improve the body's immunity and strengthen your physique.
Longan ginger porridge
Ingredients: 40 grams of black beans, 75 grams of rice, 25 grams of longan, 20 grams of ginger.
Method: Grind the fresh ginger into ginger juice first, and then boil it with the above ingredients to make porridge.
This porridge is rich in protein, curcumin, sugars and a variety of vitamins, which can supplement the nutrients needed by the body, eliminate fatigue, and have the effects of strengthening the brain and intellect, nourishing the heart and spleen, and nourishing blood and soothing the nerves.
Tips to make porridge soft and sticky:
Before cooking the porridge, the rice is soaked in cold water for half an hour, which not only reduces the boiling time, but also increases the taste.
Put the pre-soaked rice in the refrigerator and freeze it for two hours before putting it in the pot, alternating between cold and hot, and the porridge will be more viscous.
When cooking porridge, many people are accustomed to rice under cold water. In fact, after the water is boiling, the best time is to put the rice in the pot.
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