Eel, also known as Monopterus albus, is snake-like, with few bone spurs and fleshy meat. The meat is tender and the skin is smooth. It used to be wild, but now most of it is farmed. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Monopterus albus has the functions of enriching blood, invigorating qi, diminishing inflammation, disinfecting and removing rheumatism. Monopterus albus is sweet and warm in nature, and has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer and nourishing blood, and treating asthenia. It is used as medicine by the people to treat asthenia, cough, body itching due to damp heat, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids and leakage, deafness and deficiency of both qi and blood.

People in Chaoshan area are used to cooking eel porridge for pregnant women. If the elderly are weak and sick, they will also cook eel porridge. Many people think that eel porridge is a medicine for enriching blood and promoting blood circulation, and there is a folk saying that "eel competes with ginseng".

I remember when I gave birth to a child, my husband cooked eel porridge for me almost every day, saying it was blood-enriching and blood-activating Pots of eel porridge are full of love.

When you go to the market to buy eel, the general store kills the eel on the spot, cuts the fish head and bones into pieces separately, and slices the fish. The eel that was taken home was already handled.

The next step is to prepare ingredients.

Ingredients: eel, mushroom, shrimp, onion, coriander, winter vegetables, chicken essence, refined salt, pepper, ginger,

Steps: Soak the mushrooms in clear water, cut them in half, and don't pour out the water for soaking the mushrooms. Slice the ginger. Cut the onion into sections. Remove the fresh shrimp from the head and the shrimp line.

Heat the pan, put the oil in, and saute the mushrooms. Dish for later use.

Soak the rice in clear water for 30 minutes first. Then pour it into a casserole and cook it. After the big fire boils, change it to a small fire for boiling. The spoon keeps stirring to avoid touching the bottom of the pot.

When the rice porridge is cooked, put the ginger slices, eel bones, eel slices, mushrooms and shrimps into the pot to cook. After cooking for about 10 minutes, add chicken essence, onion, coriander, salt, pepper and winter vegetables, stir twice and turn off the heat.

The eel casserole porridge is cooked. The eel meat is tender and delicious, the shrimp is fresh and sweet, mixed with rice fragrance, which is very appetizing, and has the effects of enriching blood and activating blood, tonifying middle energizer and benefiting qi. It can be called a rare medicinal diet.