Pumpkin porridge with glutinous rice or rice personally feels that glutinous rice tastes better, because glutinous rice porridge is sticky.
Ingredients: rice 1 80g, glutinous rice1spoon, and half a pumpkin.
Accessories: sweet osmanthus 1 spoon, two pieces of rock sugar, and appropriate amount of dried sweet osmanthus.
Practice:
1, peel the pumpkin, remove the capsule, and rinse it for later use (choose the round pumpkin, which is more yellow, and the pumpkin that looks like wax gourd is not as yellow as this color)
2. Take about a cup of rice in a measuring cup, grab a handful of glutinous rice and wash it for 2 to 3 times.
3. Cut the pumpkin into cubes of 1.5 cubic meters.
4. Put the rice and diced pumpkin into the pot and add water to the water level of about 2.5-3L.
5. Cook porridge in an ordinary pot for about 45 minutes, and use a pressure cooker for about 20-30 minutes. Adjust the specific time according to your taste. Boil it on high fire, and turn it to medium fire after about 15 minutes. Be careful when cooking porridge.
6. Add rock sugar in about 35-40 minutes, and adjust the amount of rock sugar according to the taste.
7. After 45 minutes, the pumpkin porridge comes out of the oven, add a tablespoon of sweet osmanthus, stir well, and sprinkle some dried osmanthus before eating.
Pumpkin porridge with tender pumpkin or old pumpkin is the most suitable for porridge with long old pumpkin, which has high sugar content and noodles, and is most suitable for porridge.
First of all, choose a long old pumpkin. From the appearance, the surface of the old pumpkin is covered with frost, and then pinch the pumpkin skin with your hand. If the skin is hard, it means that the pumpkin is old and sweet.
There is another trick: pinch the pumpkin with your fingernail and water will seep out. Touch a little water with your index finger and rub it with your thumb. If there is white powder on your hand, it means that the pumpkin is noodle-like. If it still feels sticky, it means that the pumpkin is high in sugar and sweet.
Secondly, we should choose pumpkins with complete appearance, and those with damage, pests or spots on the surface should not be purchased; And it is best to connect the stem of the melon with the body of the melon, which means that the pumpkin is fresh and can be preserved for a long time.
Finally, after cutting the pumpkin, the darker the golden color, the older the pumpkin, the better. On the contrary, the lighter the color, the more tender it is.
What are the benefits of eating pumpkin? Pumpkin is rich in carotene and vitamin C, which can strengthen the spleen, prevent gastritis, prevent night blindness, protect the liver, make the skin tender, and neutralize carcinogens. Yellow fruits and vegetables are also rich in two vitamins A and D; Vitamin A can protect gastrointestinal mucosa and prevent gastritis, gastric ulcer and other diseases. Vitamin D can promote the absorption of two mineral elements, calcium and phosphorus, thus strengthening bones and tendons, and has certain preventive effect on common diseases such as rickets in children, myopia in adolescents and osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly people.
Pumpkin not only has high edible value, but also has a dietary function that can not be ignored. According to "Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan", pumpkin is warm, sweet and non-toxic. It enters the spleen and stomach, can moisten the lung and replenish qi, eliminate phlegm and expel pus, expel worms and detoxify, treat cough and asthma, treat lung abscess and constipation, and has diuretic and beauty effects. Research experiments by medical experts and scholars at home and abroad show that eating pumpkin seeds can also relieve the symptoms of prostatic hypertrophy, prevent prostate cancer, prevent arteriosclerosis and gastric ulcer, and dissolve stones.
Bile secreted by pumpkin can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion. At the same time, pectin in it can protect people from the stimulation of coarse food and protect our gastric mucosa. In addition, pumpkin can restore and regenerate liver and kidney function, because pumpkin can eliminate the mutation of carcinogen nitrite.
There is also a kind of "cobalt" component in pumpkin, which has the function of enriching blood after eating. Pumpkin is rich in vitamins A, B, C and minerals, 8 essential amino acids and histidine necessary for children, soluble fiber, lutein and trace elements such as phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc and silicon. Modern nutrition and medicine show that eating more pumpkin can effectively prevent and treat hypertension, diabetes and liver diseases, and improve human immunity.
Pumpkin is rich in zinc, which is an inherent component of adrenocortical hormone and an important substance for human growth and development. The beneficial components in pumpkin are polysaccharide, amino acid, active protein, carotene and various trace elements.