Red bean millet porridge. Take a proper amount of red beans and millet, clean the red beans and soak them for half an hour to an hour for later use; Wash the millet and soak it for 1 hour. Put them into a casserole, add 500 ml of water and boil. After the fire boils, turn to low heat and simmer slowly. Among many stomach-nourishing porridge in Fang Zhizhong, millet porridge has always been the representative porridge. Millet is sweet in taste, warm and peaceful in nature, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, tonifying deficiency, nourishing yin and nourishing blood, and can prevent spleen deficiency, nausea and vomiting, and improve the constitution of puerpera with deficiency and cold. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that Xiaomi "treats nausea and dysentery, cooks porridge, benefits Dantian, supplements deficiency and opens the stomach". Modern research shows that millet is rich in amino acids, protein, vitamin B 1, B2, and the tryptophan it contains can also soothe the nerves and help sleep. Red beans have the characteristics of clearing heart, invigorating spleen and kidney, high fiber and low fat, which can effectively replenish physical fatigue.
Porridge with preserved vegetables. Take a proper amount of rice, minced meat and celery, 1/4 preserved old vegetables; After washing the rice, pour it into the casserole and add 4 times of water; Wash the preserved vegetables, chop them, and fry them with garlic until fragrant; Put minced meat, fried preserved vegetables and minced celery into the casserole together, and then add pepper and other seasonings according to personal taste. The climate in coastal areas is hot and humid, and people will more or less accumulate food and lose appetite. Preserved vegetable is a famous specialty in Guangdong province. It is pickled from dried radish and has the effect of promoting digestion and appetizing. It is very suitable for eating in summer, and the longer it is stored, the better the therapeutic effect will be.
Luffa porridge. Take a proper amount of loofah and japonica rice (the ratio is roughly 2:5), wash loofah, peel and cut into pieces; Wash the rice, put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, put it on a big fire and boil it, then turn to a small fire and cook it; After the japonica rice is cooked, add the loofah, wait for 5~8 minutes after boiling, and you can eat it. Luffa is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and belongs to the lung, liver, stomach and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying, and is suitable for relieving summer polydipsia, phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids and leakage, excessive leucorrhea, hematuria, milk obstruction and carbuncle.
For healthy people, drinking porridge can really play a certain role in nourishing the stomach. However, if you often drink porridge without chewing, it will inhibit the secretion of salivary amylase, which will not only reduce the digestibility of food in the mouth, increase the burden on the stomach, but also affect the digestion and absorption of food. For diabetic patients, the glycemic index of porridge is high, so we should drink as little as possible. In addition, ingredients can also be appropriately increased according to personal physique, and dandelion or Prunella vulgaris can be added to those who are weak and hot; Astragalus membranaceus and Codonopsis pilosula can be added appropriately for those with cold constitution; Adding beef can supplement qi and blood and nourish the stomach; Adding mutton can play a role in invigorating qi and tonifying deficiency and warming the middle and lower temperature.