For flavor, add nuts. Peanuts, melon seeds, walnuts, pine nuts, almonds, white sesame seeds, black sesame seeds contain a lot of unsaturated fatty acids, put into the porridge can make its aroma stronger. It should be noted that you should add fried nuts when you are almost out of the pot, so as not to destroy the aroma of a long time boiling, peanuts, walnuts, etc. made into chopped nuts, the effect is better.

To be sticky, add glutinous ingredients. Purple glutinous rice, glutinous rice, rhubarb rice and other rich in branched-chain starch, boiled is equivalent to adding a natural thickener in the porridge, but this type of ingredients are prone to cause elevated blood sugar. Diabetics want to drink sticky porridge, you can add oats, its rich beta glucan is also a natural thickener, but also help control blood sugar lipids.

To be sweet, add red dates. Red dates, raisins, cinnamon meat, lotus seeds are high in sugar, can make the porridge to add sweet flavor, but diabetics should drink less. It should be noted that lotus seeds must be removed from the core before cooking.

Soak: soak the rice in cold water for half an hour before cooking the porridge, so that the grains of rice expand. The advantages of doing so are: (1) save time when boiling up the porridge; (2) it will turn in one direction when stirring: (3) the porridge will be crispy and have a good texture.

Boiled water under the pot everyone's general **** knowledge is cold water to cook porridge, while the real connoisseur is to use boiled water to cook porridge. This is because boiling water under the pot to cook porridge will not paste the bottom, and than cold water porridge is also more time-saving.

Fire Hou first with a large fire boil, and then turn the fire that is small fire simmering for about 30 minutes. This is a great way to get the flavor of the congee out of the fire.

Stirring in order to thicken, that is to say, to make the rice grains full, grains of crispy thick. Stirring skills are: boiling water into the pot when stirring a few times, cover the pot to simmer to 20 minutes, began to stir constantly, and has been continued for about 10 minutes, until it is a thick and crispy out of the pot until.

Dot oil: porridge why also put oil, this is because the porridge changed to about 10 minutes after the fire into a small amount of salad oil, you will find not only the finished porridge color bright, but also the entrance of the different smooth.

Basic ingredients are cooked separately: most people are used to pouring everything into the pot when cooking congee, but the old congee store doesn't do that. Congee base is congee base, material is material, boil the boil, blanch the blanch, and then finally set aside a piece of simmering for a few moments, and never more than 10 minutes. The porridge is fresh and cloudy, and the flavors of each item are boiled out without cascading. Especially when the ingredients are meat and seafood, the bottom of the porridge and the ingredients should be separated.

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Benefits of drinking congee

Congee, two "bows" sandwiched by a "rice", meaning that congee should be based on grains. Experts point out that choosing different ingredients for porridge can achieve different therapeutic effects. For example:

Rice porridge. Rice porridge has a balanced effect on the maintenance of the five organs and is suitable for most people. Glutinous rice, as a kind of rice, contains more mucus, which is better for tonifying qi.

Millet porridge. Millet nourishes the heart and stomach, has a certain maintenance effect on the stomach, and helps to sleep well. For the elderly, the sick, women in labor, millet porridge is the ideal tonic.

Corn porridge. Research has confirmed that corn contains carbohydrates, protein, fat, carotene, but also contains riboflavin, calcium, magnesium, selenium and a variety of vitamins to help prevent heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia.

Sweet potato porridge. Sweet potatoes can nourish the stomach and spleen, and prevent constipation. People with poor spleen and stomach are suitable to add sweet potato porridge.

Oatmeal porridge. Drink oatmeal porridge, help to reduce the level of "bad" cholesterol, prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia. Harvard University study proved that drinking a small bowl of coarse grain porridge, such as oatmeal porridge, can prolong life.

Experts said, although the porridge to the five grains, but can not be limited to this, should also be matched with beans, vegetables, meat, etc., both to increase nutrition, a reasonable combination of ingredients can also enhance the health effect. In addition to the five grains, adding red beans, jujubes, lotus seeds, cinnamon, can enhance the heart, blood effect; add soybean, yam, hawthorn, white beans, conducive to the health of the spleen and stomach; mung beans, goji berries can be made to nourish the liver, liver protection efficacy increased.

References:

People's Daily News - The Benefits of Drinking Porridge 5 Tips to Keep in Mind When Cooking Porridge

People's Daily News - Every Step in Cooking Porridge is Crucial Why Your Porridge Doesn't Smell as Good as Others

People's Daily News - 3 Tips for Cooking Porridge to Make Porridge Smell Sweet and Fragrant