1. Lotus seed porridge

Ingredients to prepare and make: use 50 grams of lotus seeds and 100 grams of japonica or glutinous rice. Wash the lotus seeds and rice, put them into a pot and cook them together until the lotus seeds are very rotten.

Efficacy: Calming the mind and calming the mind, helping sleep.

2. Lotus seeds and white fungus porridge

Ingredients: 100 grams of lotus seeds, 20 grams of white fungus, 200 grams of rock sugar, 100 grams of fragrant rice, and several red dates.

Preparation: Boil fragrant rice into porridge. You can add rock sugar and boil it in water (diabetics don’t need to add it). Soak white fungus in warm water. Boil the lotus seeds and remove the heart. Then put the white fungus, lotus seeds, red dates and melted rock sugar into the porridge pot, and cook it over warm fire.

Efficacy: Rich in nutrients, tonic and health-care, and can be used as a tonic food for those with yin deficiency.

3 Lotus Seed and Lily Porridge

Ingredients: 30 grams of lotus seeds, 30 grams of dried lilies, 100 grams of japonica rice, 30 grams of rock sugar, and several red dates.

Preparation: Wash the lotus seeds and soak them. Wash the dried lilies and japonica rice separately. Put them into the pot together with the lotus seeds and red dates. Add an appropriate amount of water. Bring to a boil over high heat first, then simmer over low heat. , add rock sugar when it is almost cooked, and cook briefly.

Efficacy: The porridge is thick, sweet, and delicious. Nourishes yin and strengthens the spleen, nourishes the heart and calms the mind.

4 Lotus seeds and eight-treasure porridge

Ingredients: 20 grams of lotus seeds, 10 grams of kernels, 10 grams of peeled sweet almonds, 10 grams of peeled kernels, 20 grams of golden dates, 20 raisins Gram, 50 grams each of apple preserves and peach preserves, mix evenly and set aside.

Wash out the glutinous rice and add water to make porridge. When it is almost cooked, add the above-mentioned fruit ingredients and continue to cook until the porridge is thick.

Effects: Clear the heart and calm the nerves, delay aging, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, clear fire and detoxify, moisten the lungs and relieve cough.

5. Lotus seed and mung bean porridge

Ingredients: lotus seeds, mung beans, glutinous rice

Preparation: wash the mung beans with water one day in advance, soak and set aside; lotus seeds, glutinous rice Rinse with clean water and dry.

Put water in the pot and bring to a boil. Add the mung beans first. Cook until the mung beans are half bloomed. Add rice and lotus seeds. Bring to a boil again. Then turn to medium heat and simmer for 25 minutes. Add rock sugar and bring to a boil again.

Efficacy: cooling and relieving heat, calming the mind and calming the mind.