Since it is a confinement meal, you must be careful with it. For example, stir-fry or stew, it is not advisable to add too many seasonings, as it will destroy the nutrients in it. So how should confinement meals be made? Let’s take barley rice, fried pork liver with sesame oil, angelica fish soup, and braised peanut pig’s feet as examples below to talk about how to make various dishes for the confinement meal.
A complete list of postpartum meal recipes
1. Coix rice
Materials: Coix, rice, water
Method: 1. Coix rice Wash rice and rice separately and soak in water for 3-4 hours.
2. Put the soaked barley and rice into the rice cooker, add appropriate amount of water and cook.
Efficacy: It can diuretic and reduce swelling, which can help postpartum mothers relieve the problem of inability to urinate; it can also strengthen gastrointestinal function and enhance the ability of gastrointestinal digestion and absorption.
2. Stir-fried pork liver with sesame oil
Materials: pork liver, ginger, sesame oil, water
Method: 1. Wash the pork liver and cut into 0.5 pieces centimeter thickness; scrub the ginger clean and cut into thin slices with the skin on.
2. Pour the sesame oil into the pot and heat it up over high heat. Add the ginger slices, turn to low heat and sauté until both sides of the ginger slices are wrinkled. Be careful not to fry them until they are charred.
3. Turn to high heat, add pork liver and stir-fry until it changes color, add water, turn off the heat immediately after boiling, and enjoy while hot.
Efficacy: Helps mothers expel dirty blood from the body. It is recommended to consume it in the first week after delivery.
3. Angelica fish soup
Ingredients: fish, ginger, black sesame oil, angelica, water.
Method: 1. Prepare all the ingredients and wash the cake.
2. Pour oil into the pot, heat over high heat, then reduce to low heat, add ginger and fry until brown.
3. Add fish, water and angelica and bring to a boil over high heat. Cover and cook over low heat for 5 minutes and turn off the heat.
Efficacy: Promoting blood circulation and replenishing nutrients.
IV. Stewed Peanuts and Pig’s Knuckles
Materials: Peanuts (raw), dried shrimps, pig’s feet, ginger, shiitake mushrooms, sesame oil, water
Method: 1. Soak the mushrooms until soft, cut into shreds and set aside; boil the peanuts in boiling water, then peel them in half.
2. Heat the sesame oil, add the ginger and stir-fry it, take it out and set aside.
3. Put the pig's feet into the pot and fry until the skin changes color. Take it out and set aside.
4. Add peanuts and stir-fry for a while, then add pig trotters, ginger, finally add mushrooms, shrimp and water, cover and bring to a boil, put it into a stew pot and simmer for about 8 hours.
Efficacy: In the third week, mothers with insufficient or light milk can eat peanuts and pig's feet in moderation to supplement their milk source.