Can be boiled together.

1. Lotus seeds are best soaked 1-2 hours in advance. General supermarkets to buy lotus seeds have been removed core, if not, remember to go otherwise the porridge to be bitter.

2. Millet can be washed, but not rubbed, and can not be washed with hot water or soak, and can not be soaked for a long time. Wolfberries can be washed, no need to soak. Add water into the lotus seed, wait for the water to boil and then cook on low heat for about 40 minutes.

3. Then add millet, cook until the rice is rotten, lotus seeds soft, 5 minutes before the pot, put the goji berries can be, and then according to personal taste add rock sugar or cinnamon sugar.

Lotus and millet can be boiled together; millet is slightly cold, sweet, rich in tryptophan, has the effect of stomach and sleep. Lotus seed can tranquilize the mind, and also nourish the heart and kidneys, dredge the heart and kidneys efficacy. Millet and lotus seed porridge has a good effect on the treatment of insomnia, and it can be taken before bedtime to help you sleep.

Expanded Information:

Millet is not only nutritionally comprehensive and rich, but also has the effect of nourishing the stomach. Chinese medicine that millet taste sweet, salty, cool, into the kidney, spleen, stomach, "Materia Medica" on the millet "treatment of regurgitation of hot diarrhea, porridge food, benefit Dantian, make up for the deficiency, open the stomach and intestines," the record. Thus, for the frail and sick, insufficient blood, spleen and stomach weakness of the elderly is very beneficial. Jiang Liangduo, professor of internal medicine at Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said bluntly, "millet is the most nutritious."

Jiang Liangduo pointed out that although millet porridge is a very good practice, but in line with the principle of grains to be eaten in a variety of ways, can be added to millet porridge such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, jujubes, lotus seeds, lilies, etc. Boiled to equalize its nutrition. In addition, because porridge food is easy to absorb, resulting in a rapid rise in blood sugar, so people with diabetes need to be more cautious when drinking porridge.

Reference:People's Daily Online - millet porridge is a golden porridge