The best time to simmer millet porridge is at least half an hour, when the water is about to boil and then under the rice, first simmer on high heat for 8-10 minutes, then simmer on medium-low heat for 15-20 minutes. After half an hour of simmering, adding a small amount of edible salt will increase the consistency, and the porridge is easier to cook. Wash the millet and soak it for about thirty minutes to make it easier to simmer.

Millet porridge is almost cooked, we can put the right amount of sugar, open the casserole constantly stirring, the pot of porridge is more and more stirring the thicker, continued for 10 minutes, to the porridge is viscous until.

In fact, porridge is not so simple, not you put the water and rice together can appear fragrant millet porridge drops. Here are a few tips to teach you to boil millet porridge:

1. You have to choose fresh millet, not old rice, the flavor will be much worse.

2. When the water is about to boil, then the rice, first simmer on high heat for 8-10 minutes, then simmer on medium-low heat for 15-20 minutes.

3. Can not be lazy, just under the rice to stir the pot, to prevent the bottom of the paste, simmering fire as little as possible when the lid, to prevent overflow of pots and pans can be covered with the lid to leave a slit.

4. pot put enough water, do not add water, water is generally 15-20 times the ingredients. Water quality is not good in the region can be replaced with bottled water.

5. Some areas like to add edible alkali to make the rice more soft, to be simmered to more than half an hour, add a little edible alkali, but add edible alkali millet porridge, its flavor will be affected. (Pregnant women, infants and young children are not recommended to put)

6. To be rice into flower-like, more delicious.

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Millet that is corn, can open the stomach and intestines, make up for the deficiency, benefit the dantian, can be used for the loss of qi and blood, physical weakness, poor appetite for complementary, suitable for the maternal breast milk, post-partum loss of deficiency caused by the weakness of the tiredness and lethargy, food and drink, can be eaten for breakfast. Winter and spring millet porridge is more suitable for women in labor. Many women in the north of China after giving birth, are used millet with brown sugar to nourish the body of the tradition.

Millet contains a variety of vitamins, amino acids, fats and carbohydrates, high nutritional value, per 100 grams of millet containing 9.7 grams of protein, 3.5 grams of fat, are not less than rice, wheat. General grain does not contain carotene, and millet per 100 grams of content up to 0.12 mg, the content of vitamin B1 ranked first in all grain.

Millet is also very high in sugar, 72.8 grams of sugar per 100 grams, calorie production is much higher than rice. In addition, millet is rich in vitamin B1.B2, etc., also has the function of preventing indigestion and mouth sores.

So, for the old and weak patients and maternal, millet can be said to be the most ideal tonic. The "Materia Medica" said, millet "treatment of regurgitation of hot diarrhea, porridge food, benefit Dantian, fill the deficiency, open the stomach and intestines. And Chinese medicine also said that millet "and the stomach and warm", that millet taste sweet and salty, there is a heat and thirst, stomach and dampness, and the stomach and sleep, etc., internal heat and spleen and stomach weakness is more suitable for eating it.

Some people have a bad appetite, after eating millet can open the stomach and stomach, with the stomach and digestion, to prevent regurgitation, vomiting effect.

Under the pressure of work, modern people have become a common stomach upset, every meal, no appetite, no appetite has become the mantra of many people, and to help digestion, increase gastric power of a variety of drugs is in the TV commercials are very popular. In fact, there is a stomach food is the most green and no side effects, that is millet.

Millet can lift the bad breath and reduce the breeding of bacteria in the mouth. Millet is rich in amino acids, which can be antibacterial and prevent vaginitis in women. Millet is rich in nutrients, the content of tryptophan for the first cereal, tryptophan has the role of sleep regulation. Taking millet porridge before bedtime can make people sleep peacefully.

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