Tip 1: Choose good ingredients. Want to porridge is good to drink, the selection of materials is very important, be sure to choose fresh ingredients, in addition to adding the right amount of glutinous rice, yellow rice also try to use yellow glutinous rice so that the porridge is not only thick soup, the flavor is sweet and soft. In addition, in addition to rice, millet, these main ingredients, you can also add all kinds of beans, jujube, peanut rice and other ingredients, not only can increase the nutrients of the porridge, but also make the porridge become more viscous.

Tip 2: Soak it in advance. Because rice and beans are relatively hard, therefore, before the porridge, it is best to soak in water, rice should be soaked for at least 30 minutes, beans should be soaked a night in advance, so that the ingredients are full of water, become fat and bulging, cooked out of the porridge taste more viscous, but also to save porridge time.

Tip 3: add some "material". If you want your porridge to be thick and tasty, don't be in a hurry. Boil the water over high heat, add the ingredients, then turn the heat down and simmer slowly, the longer you simmer, the more viscous the congee will be. If you want to be a little thicker, then you need to add a little bit of cooking soda or baking soda, which will increase the consistency of the porridge. But add these two will break the salt ingredients in the vitamins, if you mind then do not add.

Tip 4: ditch gravy. Congee with starch water thickening, and then poured into the porridge pot to cook together, the porridge texture will become very thick, and add starch to eat together without any harm, so the family can use this method of porridge.

Tip 5: the proportion of ingredients and water. The amount of water should not be too much or too little, according to the amount of ingredients. If you want to eat thin porridge, the ratio of water to rice is 20:1, and if you want to eat thick porridge, it's 15:1. This should be fine-tuned according to the type of ingredients.

Tip 6: Freeze ingredients. Here's another quick and easy tip for making deliciously thick porridge. Wash the rice, put it in the freezer until frozen, then put it in boiling water to cook, only 10 minutes, you can cook a pot of white porridge that is smooth and silky. In summer, use this method to cook green bean soup, it takes less time and the green beans are especially easy to bloom, so go ahead and try it too!

Tip 7: Stir constantly. This method works especially well, the secret is that after the porridge boiled, in the process of cooking porridge over low heat, with a spoon clockwise or counterclockwise direction of non-stop stirring, so that the porridge is not soupy, rice and water completely integrated into the thick, especially fragrant and delicious.