Why can't barley be boiled?
Coix seed is indeed harder to cook than ordinary rice.
1. Soak cooking
Wash the coix seed with clear water before cooking, then soak it in clear water for two or three hours, and then you can cook it easily after absorbing enough water. When it's hot, it's best to soak the barley in the refrigerator. When cooking, it is best to cook the soaked water of Coix seed together to avoid the loss of nutrition of Coix seed.
2. Anhydrous freezing method
If you don't want to soak coix seed, you can also use freezing method. It is to put the bought barley into a plastic bag and freeze it in the freezer for a week. When you need to eat, take it out and cook it, which is also perishable.
3. Water freezing method
The coix seed is washed with clear water first, and then soaked for a while, so that water can enter the coix seed, and the effect is better. Then take out the coix seed and drain the excess water. Put the wet coix seed into a plastic bag and put it in the freezer of the refrigerator until it freezes. This kind of coix seed is also easy to cook.
Put some baking soda.
Putting less baking soda in cooking can increase the rapid decomposition of the structure of Coix seed.
Cook in a pressure cooker
Use the pressure cooker quickly
Can coix seed be whitened?
Coix seed has whitening effect, but it depends on how to use it. If you just eat barley, the effect will not be particularly obvious, because the real function of barley is to strengthen the spleen. The so-called "medicine and food are homologous", taking coix seed is suitable for people with spleen deficiency to recuperate their bodies for a long time, and whitening is only a healthy performance of the skin from the inside out after the body recuperates. However, if coix seed water and coix seed are used as masks or skin care products, the whitening effect will be more obvious, which is why whitening products such as "Xuejijing" contain a lot of coix seed ingredients. Moreover, coix seed is a kind of medicine, which needs to be taken orally and applied externally to achieve whitening effect, so it is much safer than some direct chemicals.
How to tell whether coix seed has deteriorated?
1, fresh coix seed often has obvious rice flavor, and ordinary coix seed may gradually disappear after a period of time, but please don't eat it if it smells like mildew or clams.
2. Good coix seed is grayish white or yellowish white, and the particles are full and shiny. If the color is dull and the particles are deformed, it means that the coix seed is about to expire.
3. Normal coix seed is hard to pinch outside. If it feels soft, it may be of poor quality.
Practice of potato, yam and barley porridge
Materials:
70g of coix seed, purple sweet potato100g, sweet potato100g, yam100g, and 80g of rice.
Exercise:
1, prepare the ingredients. Chinese yam, sweet potato and purple potato, peeled and cut into pieces.
2, rice, glutinous rice, wash clean. Add yam, purple sweet potato and sweet potato.
3. Add water according to your favorite consistency.
4. put it in the rice cooker. If there is a "porridge" button, select it directly. If not, you can choose one and a half hours to two hours.
5. After cooking, you can eat it in a bowl.