Practice of millet and pumpkin porridge
Required ingredients
Millet 100g, pumpkin 300g.
manufacturing method
1. Peel and cut the pumpkin, wash the millet and soak it in water for 20 minutes;
2. Prepare half a bottle of boiling water, pour it into the rice cooker and cook the millet for 30 minutes; When cooking millet, mash the pumpkin with a blender;
After 3.30 minutes, add pumpkin and cook for about 15 minutes, stirring from time to time to avoid sticking to the pot.
Cooking tips
1, soaking raw materials can not only save the time of cooking porridge, but also make the taste of porridge more delicate and sticky.
2. When cooking porridge, water should be put in place once, so as to avoid adding water in the middle, and try not to stir frequently during porridge cooking.
3. When the millet blooms and the pumpkin is boiled, you can stir it a little with a spoon, and the pumpkin will break easily.
Efficacy of millet and pumpkin porridge
1. Millet and pumpkin porridge has rich nutritional value. It is very suitable for the elderly or children in the developmental stage.
2. Xiaomi pumpkin porridge also has the function of detoxification, which can eliminate some toxins in the body and absorb heavy metal substances in the body, remove toxic substances in the human body, and make your body reach a good state.
3. Millet pumpkin porridge also has an effect on patients with gastric diseases, promoting bile secretion in the stomach and helping digestion in the stomach. This is a very appetizing porridge.
4. Millet pumpkin porridge can supplement the minerals needed by the body and make the body create a healthy atmosphere.
Nutritional components of pumpkin
Every 100g contains 0.6g of protein and 0. 1g of fat. Carbohydrate 5.7 g, crude fiber 1. 1 g, ash 0.6 g, calcium 10 mg, phosphorus 32 mg, iron 0.5 mg, carotene 0.57 mg, riboflavin 0.04 mg, nicotinic acid 0.7 mg and ascorbic acid 5 mg. In addition, it also contains citrulline, arginine, asparagine, trigonelline, Eupatorium adenophorum, glucose, mannitol, pentosan, pectin and so on.
The beneficial components in pumpkin are polysaccharides, amino acids, active proteins, carotenoids and various trace elements.
Functions of various components
1. polysaccharide
Pumpkin polysaccharide is a non-specific immune enhancer, which can improve the immune function, promote the production of cytokines, and play a variety of regulatory functions on the immune system by activating complement.
2. Carotenoids
The carotenoids in pumpkin can be transformed into vitamin A with important physiological functions in vivo, which has important physiological functions for the growth and differentiation of epithelial tissues, maintaining normal vision and promoting the development of bones.
3. Mineral elements
Pumpkin is high in calcium, potassium and sodium, which is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and hypertensive patients, and is conducive to preventing osteoporosis and hypertension. In addition, it also contains phosphorus, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, boron and other elements.
4. Amino acids and active protein
Pumpkin contains many kinds of amino acids needed by human body, among which lysine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine and threonine are higher.
In addition, the genotype of ascorbic acid oxidase in pumpkin is the same as that in tobacco, but its activity is obviously higher than that in tobacco, indicating that the content of immunocompetent protein in pumpkin is higher.
5. Lipid substances
It is found that the lipids in pumpkin seeds have good therapeutic and preventive effects on urinary system diseases and prostatic hyperplasia.