Millet porridge is nutritious, but it is not easy to boil. Cooked millet porridge is fully mixed with water, thick, smooth and fragrant; Bad millet porridge, rice is rice, soup is soup, clear soup is watery, indifferent and tasteless.
First: Chinese medicine believes that millet is cool, so Shanxi people will add a little flat rice when cooking millet gruel, which is what Shanxi people call "two-meter porridge". But the ratio of millet to rice should be appropriate, and millet accounts for the majority.
Second: Don't rub it with your hands when washing millet, it will rub off the nutrients contained in the epidermis of millet.
Third: Don't soak millet for a long time.
Fourth: Don't cook millet porridge in cold water. Rice grains in cold water are easy to sink to the bottom, and there will be a phenomenon of paste pot.
Fifth: When cooking millet gruel, we should also pay attention not to boil the rice, but to add rice when the water in the pot makes a noise and the water seems to be boiling. If you wait for the water to boil the rice, the color of the boiled millet porridge will turn white.
Sixth: Put the millet into the water pot and stir it several times with a spoon, in order to prevent the millet from sinking to the bottom of the pot, and the rice inside will stick to the pot.
Seventh: After the millet porridge is boiled on a big fire, it should be boiled slowly on a small fire, so that the millet porridge soup is thick and tastes more fragrant.
Eighth: during the boiling process, there will be a phenomenon of overflowing the pot. At this time, don't worry about it, you can let it overflow the pot properly, which can also add flavor and thickening to the boiled millet gruel and make it taste better.
Ninth: What we are using now are all gas stoves or induction cookers. If the pot overflows for a long time, we are afraid of danger. Therefore, after the pot overflows, you can use a chopstick to stand on the edge of the pot, so that a gap is formed between the lid and the edge of the pot, and it can be boiled slowly with a small fire. But don't remove the lid completely, as the fragrance of porridge will be lost.
Tenth: In the process of cooking millet porridge, don't stir the porridge body with a spoon, but let the millet simmer after stirring in the pot. Finally, when the millet porridge is cooked, you will find a thin transparent and shiny film floating on the surface, which is the "rice oil" and the essence of millet porridge. The fragrance and nutrition of millet porridge are all in this layer of "rice oil".
Eleventh: When cooking millet porridge, don't add any alkaline noodles to the porridge so as not to destroy the nutrients contained in millet province, and don't add cooking oil, which will affect the formation of the final "rice oil".
Second, the efficacy and practice of millet and red bean porridge
More and more people love red bean millet porridge, which can be described as a good helper for health care. Red bean millet porridge is not only rich in nutritional value, but also effective. Long-term consumption of red bean millet porridge can treat some diseases. Some people don't know much about red bean millet porridge. Let's analyze the efficacy of red bean millet from two aspects: the efficacy of red bean and the efficacy of millet.
Red beans, also known as acacia seeds, are considered by Chinese medicine to be sweet, sour, flat and non-toxic, and have the effect of eliminating dampness and tonifying spleen, which is more suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. Red beans contain more saponin which can stimulate the intestine, so it has a good diuretic effect, can relieve alcoholism and detoxify, and has a good dietotherapy effect on heart disease, kidney disease and edema. Red beans also contain more dietary fiber, which has good effects of relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood fat, regulating blood sugar, detoxicating and anticancer, preventing stones, building body and losing weight. In addition, red beans are foods rich in folic acid, and pregnant women and lactating mothers eat red beans more to promote lactation.
Millet also has a good dietotherapy effect. It can not only tonify the spleen and stomach and kidney, but also has a good effect of calming the mind and yin beauty. Chinese medicine believes that millet can "warm the stomach", so millet is very beneficial to people with diarrhea, vomiting, indigestion and diabetes. Eating millet, which can effectively tonify the middle energizer and replenish qi, has therapeutic effects on spleen and stomach cold deficiency, deficiency of middle energizer and insomnia. Coix seed millet porridge can be used as a diet health care product to calm the nerves, which is safer than some health care products with unknown ingredients on the market, and there is no need to worry about any adverse reactions after eating.
Third, what is the practice of millet pumpkin porridge?
Millet and pumpkin porridge is a low-calorie and stomach-nourishing staple food. Pumpkin is rich in vitamins and pectin, which can effectively remove body toxins and other harmful substances. Millet is very stomach-nourishing, and the combination of the two is more balanced in eating nutrition, more stomach-nourishing and better in detoxification.
Millet and pumpkin porridge, also known as millet and pumpkin porridge, is a nourishing and nourishing porridge.
First, the required ingredients
Millet 100g, pumpkin 300g
Second, the production method
1, peeled pumpkin and cut into pieces, washed millet and soaked in clear water for 20 minutes;
2. Prepare half a bottle of boiling water, pour it into the rice cooker, and boil the millet for 30 minutes; When cooking millet, mash the pumpkin with a blender;
3. After 30 minutes, add the pumpkin and cook for about 15 minutes, stirring it from time to time to avoid sticking to the pot.
Third, cooking skills
1, soaking raw materials can not only save the time of cooking porridge, but also make porridge taste more delicate and sticky.
2. When cooking porridge, it is best to put the water in place once, avoid adding water in the middle, and try not to stir frequently during cooking porridge.
3. When the millet blooms and the pumpkin is boiled, you can stir it a little with a spoon, and the pumpkin will break easily.
4. Which groups of people are suitable for red bean millet porridge?
Red beans not only have the effect of dredging the small intestine, facilitating urination and eliminating swelling, but also contain more dietary fiber, thus achieving the function of bodybuilding and weight loss. Many people are obese because of poor digestion in the stomach and intestines, and moderate consumption of red bean millet porridge has a good therapeutic effect on food stagnation and indigestion. But not everyone can eat red bean millet porridge. Let's take a look at the suitable crowd of red bean millet porridge.
1, puerpera with deficiency of cold: Red beans and millet porridge are rich in nutritional value, because the iron content in millet with the same weight is twice as high as that in rice, vitamin B 1 is higher than that in rice 1 .5-3.5 times and vitamin B21times, which is very effective for puerpera to nourish yin and blood because of its high iron content. Many women in northern China have the tradition of adding millet and red beans to recuperate their health after giving birth.
2, easy to insomnia: millet is slightly cold, sweet, and has the effect of strengthening the spleen, harmonizing the stomach and sleeping. In addition, millet is rich in starch, which helps people feel full after eating, and can promote the secretion of pancreatin to increase the amount of tryptophan entering the brain. Drinking millet gruel every night not only makes you sleep fast and soundly, but also makes you look ruddy and energetic the next morning.
3, spleen and stomach deficiency: Red beans and millet are rich in vitamin B 1, B2 and other nutrients, which have the functions of invigorating the spleen and stomach, preventing indigestion and mouth sores.
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