There are many ways to eat lotus seeds, which have different effects when paired with different foods. Today, I only introduce several methods of lotus seed porridge (lotus seeds must be soaked before use, peeled and cored)-
1. Preparation and production of lotus seed porridge
: 5 grams of lotus seeds and 1 grams of japonica rice or glutinous rice. Wash the lotus seeds and rice and cook them in the pot until the lotus seeds are rotten.
efficacy: calming the mind and calming the nerves, and helping to sleep.
2. Lotus seed tremella porridge
Ingredients: 1g of lotus seeds, 2g of tremella, 2g of rock sugar, 1g of fragrant rice and several red dates.
making: cook fragrant rice into porridge. Rock sugar can be boiled in water (diabetes patients can also not put it). Tremella fuciformis is soaked in warm water. Lotus seeds are cooked to remove the heart. Then put the tremella, lotus seeds, red dates and melted rock sugar into a porridge pot and cook it with mild fire.
efficacy: rich in nutrition, tonic and health care, and can be used as tonic food for people with yin deficiency constitution.
3 lotus lily porridge
Preparation: 3g of lotus seeds, 3g of dried lilies, 1g of japonica rice, 3g of rock sugar and several pieces of red dates.
production: wash the lotus seeds and soak them. Wash the dried lily and japonica rice separately, put them in a pot with lotus seeds and red dates, add appropriate amount of water, first boil them with high fire, then boil them with low fire, and then add rock sugar when they are almost ripe, and cook them slightly.
efficacy: the porridge is thick and sweet, delicious and refreshing. Nourishing yin and spleen, nourishing heart and calming nerves.
4 lotus seed eight-treasure porridge
preparation: 2g of lotus seeds, 1g of kernel, 1g of peeled sweet almonds, 1g of peeled kernels, 2g of jujube, 2g of raisins, 5g of preserved apples and 5g of preserved peaches, and mix them evenly for later use.
Wash the rice and add water to make porridge. When it is nearly cooked, add the above fruit materials and continue to cook until the porridge is thick.
efficacy: clearing heart, calming nerves, delaying aging, invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, clearing fire, detoxifying, moistening lung and relieving cough.
5. Lotus seed and mung bean porridge
Material preparation: Lotus seed, mung bean and glutinous rice
Production: Wash mung beans with clear water one day in advance and soak them for later use; Wash lotus seeds and glutinous rice with clear water and control the moisture.
add water to the pot and bring it to a boil. first, add mung beans. after the mung beans are half-flowered, enlarge the rice and lotus seeds, then bring them to a boil. then turn to medium heat for 25 minutes, add rock sugar and bring them to a boil.
efficacy: cooling and relieving summer heat, calming the heart and calming the nerves.