Reading guidance, it is a luxury to eat a hot porridge on time, not to mention a warm porridge at home. Because of eating too much greasy food outside, the probability of suffering from stomach diseases is increasing, so people pay more and more attention to health care Let's make up for our poor stomachs at the weekend. Millet porridge is a kind of healthy food, which can be boiled alone, or added with pumpkin, jujube, sweet potato, red bean, lotus seed and yam to make nutrition porridge with different tastes of invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach. Next, let's introduce pumpkin millet porridge.
Pumpkin millet porridge is rich in vitamins and minerals, among which zinc is an important element needed for human growth and development, and carotenoids contained in it have a good health care effect on human visual system. Moreover, pumpkin also contains a variety of amino acids needed by human body, which millet lacks', so the two are just right. Millet contains a lot of carbohydrates, which can provide energy for human body. Next, I will introduce you to the practice of pumpkin millet porridge.
Exercise 1:
1. Peel the pumpkin and cut it into cubes.
2. Put it in the pot, add water to cover the pot, and cook for about 5-7 minutes, and it will be cooked.
3. Wash the millet and rice, put them in a bowl and soak them in clear water for about 1 hour (soaking is to save the time for cooking porridge, but if you are in a hurry, you can add water directly without soaking, but the cooking time will be longer);
4. Add the rice to the pot where the pumpkin soup is cooked.
5. Bring the fire to a boil to ensure that the rice is not hard.
6. Open the lid, pour in half the milk and simmer for about 20 minutes. During this period, stir frequently to make the pumpkin and rice cook evenly and not stick to the pot. Then add salt and sugar, and finally pour the remaining half of the milk.
7. After the porridge is cooked, turn off the fire and cover it. You can't have too much porridge, because porridge always sucks milk during the stew and stews for about 20-30 minutes.
Exercise 2:
1, cut off the pumpkin skin, and then cut into thin slices. Wash the millet and soak it for one hour.
2. Add 5 times of water to the pressure cooker. After the water is boiled, pour in the millet and pumpkin, cover the pot and bring to a boil. If you are in a hurry, it is faster to cook porridge in a pressure cooker, but if you have time, you'd better cook it in a casserole. ...
Effect of pumpkin millet porridge
Xiaomi's Compendium of Materia Medica says that millet porridge "cures nausea and heat dysentery, cooks porridge, benefits farmland, supplements deficiency and opens the stomach".
Pumpkin, according to Chinese medicine, is sweet and warm in nature, belongs to the spleen and stomach meridian, and has the functions of invigorating the middle energizer, clearing away heat and toxic materials. It is suitable for spleen deficiency, malnutrition, lung abscess and fire and water burns. At the same time, pumpkin has the following functions:
1, and pumpkin contains vitamins and pectin. Vitamins can supplement essential nutrients needed by the human body; Pectin can adsorb and remove harmful substances such as bacteria in the body, detoxify, protect gastrointestinal mucosa, avoid the stimulation of rough food and promote ulcer healing.
2. Pumpkin contains ingredients that can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion, which has a good health care effect on patients with gastric diseases.
3. Pumpkin contains important substances for human growth and development, which promotes growth and development. Eliminate carcinogens with oxidants
4. Prevent and treat diabetes and lower blood sugar.
5, prevention and treatment of pregnancy edema symptoms, hypertension.
Therefore, the combination of pumpkin and millet can stimulate appetite, tonify deficiency and benefit dantian. It can be used for nourishing qi and blood deficiency, asthenia and anorexia, and can also be used for pumpkin millet porridge for postoperative and postpartum patients. Moreover, people with poor appetite and toxic heat in their bodies can also drink more pumpkin millet porridge, which has the effects of preventing nausea and vomiting, strengthening the stomach and promoting digestion.
Pumpkin millet porridge is suitable for people.
Any food is beneficial as long as it is eaten correctly. Pumpkin millet porridge is the same, and there are also suitable people. For example:
1. Diabetic patients: Pumpkin is rich in cobalt, which can activate human metabolism and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B 12 in human body. It is an essential trace element for human islet cells, and has a certain effect on preventing and lowering blood sugar.
2, maternity: deficiency cold nursed back to health, millet porridge is rich in nutritional value, and has the reputation of "Daishen Decoction". Millet contains more iron, vitamin B 1 and B2 than rice, so it is very helpful to nourish yin and replenish blood after delivery.
3. Patients with stomach diseases: Pumpkin millet porridge is rich in vitamins B 1, B2 and other nutrients, and has the functions of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach and preventing indigestion.
4, frequent insomnia: treatment: Chinese medicine believes that millet is slightly cold, sweet, and has the effect of strengthening the spleen and sleeping in the stomach. In addition, millet is rich in starch, which can make people feel full after eating, and promote the secretion of trypsin, thus increasing the amount of tryptophan entering the brain. Drinking millet gruel every night can not only make you sleep fast and soundly, but also make you rosy and energetic the next morning.
5, the elderly and hypertensive patients: Pumpkin is high in calcium, potassium and sodium, and also contains elements such as phosphorus, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, chromium and boron, which has a certain effect on preventing osteoporosis and hypertension.
Nutritional value of pumpkin millet porridge
Xiaomi porridge is rich in nutritional value and has the reputation of "Daishen soup". The content of iron is twice that of rice, so the nutritional value of nourishing yin and enriching blood after delivery is very high. The content of vitamin B 1 ranks first among all grains, and cellulose is higher than rice. At the same time, it contains a variety of vitamins, amino acids, protein, fat and carbohydrates, and contains carotene, iron and phosphorus which are not contained in ordinary grains, so it has high nutritional value.
Pumpkin contains many beneficial ingredients, such as protein, fat, polysaccharide, amino acid, crude fiber, carotenoid, citrulline, arginine, asparagine, trigonelline, adenine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid, glucose, mannitol, pentosan, pectin and many trace elements.
Therefore, the nutritional value of pumpkin and millet is as follows:
1, polysaccharide: pumpkin polysaccharide is a nonspecific immune enhancer, which can improve human immunity and play a variety of roles in regulating the immune system.
2. Carotenoids can be converted into vitamin A in the body, which has important physiological functions for maintaining normal vision and promoting bone development.
3, mineral elements: pumpkin millet porridge is high in calcium, high in potassium and low in sodium, and also contains phosphorus, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, boron and other elements. Conducive to the human body's intake of mineral elements.
4. Amino acids and active proteins: Pumpkin has a high content of immunologically active proteins.