Red bean and barley porridge is a delicacy made with red beans, barley, agrimony, etc. as the main raw materials. This porridge is simple to make, rich in nutrients, and delicious. It has heat-clearing and diuretic effects, so it is also effective for edema patients. It can also prevent cancer. Eating more of it is good for physical and mental health.

Ingredients required

1. Main ingredient: 100g barley

Accessory ingredients: 25g jujube (dried), 50g red bean, 10g agrimony< /p>

Seasoning: 30 grams of white sugar

2. Red beans, barley, water, rock sugar

Preparation method

Method 1

Ingredients:

Barley kernels, red beans, red dates, longan meat

Steps:

1. Wash the barley and red beans and soak them in advance (approx. twelve hours).

2. Put the soaked barley and red beans into the pot and bring to a boil over high heat.

3. Wash the red dates and longan meat and set aside.

4. After the soup boils, add red dates and longan meat.

5. Turn to medium to low heat and simmer until the red beans bloom slightly and are cooked and soft.

Tips:

Generally, barley and red bean porridge is used to remove dampness, whiten skin, and strengthen the spleen. In addition to cooking porridge, it can also be made into barley tea. Common barley tea Contains: barley kernels, adzuki beans, light bamboo leaves, gorgon seeds, purslane, green tea, and sophora rice. A cup of it in your spare time is more conducive to removing dampness, whitening and strengthening the spleen.

Method 2

1. Soak barley and red beans in warm water for half a day;

2. Wrap the agrimony with gauze;

3. Peel and soak the jujube;

4. Put barley, red beans, agrimony, and jujube into the pot together;

5. Add water and cook into gruel, and finally sprinkle Add sugar to taste.

Method 3

1. For red bean and barley porridge, prepare equal amounts of red beans and barley. After washing, the red beans need to be soaked for about two to three hours, and the barley for one hour. .

2. Then cook the red beans first, because it takes a little longer. After boiling, add some cold water, and after boiling again, add cold water again. In this way, the red beans will bloom and ripen easily, and it is said that they are easier to cook. fragrant.

3. After the red beans are boiled and blooming, add barley, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer until soft, then add rock sugar to taste.

Method 4

Ingredients:

Adequate amount of red beans, barley, and rock sugar

Steps:

1 , Soak an appropriate amount of red beans and barley in warm water for 20 minutes;

2. Put the soaked red beans and barley into a pot, boil over high heat until the water boils, then reduce to low heat;

3. Add rock sugar 20 minutes before cooking and continue to cook until the rock sugar melts and then turn off the heat.

Tips:

Red bean and barley porridge has the effect of removing dampness. If you insist on eating it for a period of time, the problem of excessive moisture in the body will be alleviated, and the quality of sleep can also be improved!

Red bean cake is a traditional snack in Jiangnan area. It has diuretic, high blood pressure, edema, constipation and other effects. The weather is sultry in summer, and red bean cake has a very good therapeutic effect on edema.

There are many different ways to make red bean cake. The ingredients are simple and it has many functions. It is a good choice for health care.

Method 1

Main ingredients

250 ??grams of red beans, 4 cups of boiling water, 1/2 cup of water, 3/4 cup of sugar or 1 rice flour according to the amount /2 cup, 1/4 cup of clear flour, 2 tablespoons of oil, one pound of water chestnut powder, one pound of flour, five pounds of water, and half a pound of sugar.

Preparation steps:

1. Rinse the red beans, remove any debris, soak in cold water for 2 hours, and drain. Mix 2 kinds of dry powder.

2. Put red beans in a 3-liter deep pot, add 4 cups of boiling water, cover, heat over high heat for 5 minutes and the water will boil. Switch to medium heat (70% heat) and cook for 40 minutes, then heat over high heat for 20 minutes. At this time, there is about 1 cup of water in the pot, and the bean juice is released, and the red beans are reserved for use.

3. In a large bowl, add 1/2 cup of water, rice flour and noodles and mix well. Add 1 cup of boiling red bean juice.

4. Mix sugar and oil into the red beans to dissolve, slowly pour in the slurry, and stir continuously until even.

5. Pour the red bean cake batter into an oiled long plate (21116 cm), wrap it tightly with plastic wrap, and cover the four corners with aluminum foil, dumb side outward.

6. Place the cake plate near the edge of the turntable and heat over high heat for 8 minutes. Move the cake plate to a 180-degree position and continue to heat over medium heat (70% heat) for 7 minutes. Set aside to cool before cutting into cubes and serving.

Method 2

Steps:

1. Wash about half a pound of red beans with clean water, then soak them in about three to four tablespoons of alkaline water. In half an hour, you can put the red beans into the pot and cook until they become soft and sandy. If you want a softer texture when you eat it, peel the red beans and make red bean paste;

2. Grasp the red beans with your hands to separate the shells and sand, and then use a water separator to separate them. Separate the shells with a spoon, and then separate the sand.

Use a special bag to separate the sand (you can sew it yourself with a relatively high-density cloth). Pour the red bean paste into the bag and wring out the water to get pure red bean paste;

3. At the same time, boil the sugar with water (the amount of sugar depends on the amount), then pour it into the pre-packed rice flour (the amount is one packet), and mix well. Then put about a quarter of the mixed glutinous rice flour into the red bean paste, add an appropriate amount of water until it becomes a paste, and finally add an appropriate amount of white sugar and mix well;

4. Apply layer by layer. Ingredients: First add half of the glutinous rice flour and steam it. When the flour forms a cake, add the red bean paste. Spread it neatly before covering the pot. Finally, put the last layer of glutinous rice flour on it and steam until cooked.

Method 3

Ingredients for making sweet red bean cake:

Main ingredients: 100 grams of adzuki beans, 350 grams of water chestnut powder

Seasoning : 150 grams of rock sugar, 20 grams of vegetable oil

How to make sweet red bean cake:

1. Wash the red beans and soak them for 2 hours to remove the water, then put them in a pot and add water Bring 5 cups to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until red beans bloom (about 1 hour).

2. Separate the water from the red beans, about 2 cups of water. If it is not enough, add it with boiling water.

3. Boil the red bean water, red beans and rock sugar, add oil and mix well.

4. Dissolve the water chestnut powder with 1 cup of water, slowly pour it into the sugar water and stir until thickened (low heat). Pour it into a cake pan, steam it over high heat for 30 minutes, cool it down, and put it in the refrigerator. , can be cut into pieces and enjoyed at any time.

Method 4

How to make glutinous red bean cake

Ingredients: 200 grams of glutinous rice flour, 300 grams of rice flour, 180 grams of sugar, 100 grams of red beans, 300 ml of water , appropriate amount of sweet-scented osmanthus

Steps:

1. Add water to the red beans and cook in a pressure cooker. After steaming, press over low heat for 15-20 minutes. Pull out the red beans and drain.

2. Mix glutinous rice flour and rice flour evenly. Add sugar, osmanthus, and red beans and mix well, then add water, mix well, and use your hands to break up any large pieces of dough.

Put a 3.8-inch pot deeper than a saucepan, line it with tin foil, grease it with oil, press the mixed dough into the mold, and steam over high heat for half an hour.

Tip: You can use the water used to cook red beans, which is not wasted and tastes good. Add water halfway through to avoid boiling it dry. When cutting, put plastic wrap on top before cutting so it won't stick to the knife. The rice cake this time is different from the past ones. In the past, there was very little water, but this time there is a lot of water, but the dough still cannot be kneaded into big balls, just many small ones.

Method 5

Ingredients: 250 grams of red bean paste (ready-made in supermarkets), appropriate amount of agar (small half a rice bowl), a little sugar and osmanthus

Preparation method :

1. Soak the agar in cold water (at least half an hour), then add it and cook over low heat for 15 minutes until the agar is almost dissolved. The utensils used for cooking agar must be washed beforehand and should not contain any oil.

2. Put the bean paste or bean filling in a large bowl, pour the agar-agar water in, stir evenly, and add a little sugar and osmanthus to taste (because the bean paste or bean filling bought in the market has already been placed Sugar, so you don’t need to add sugar. If you make your own bean paste or bean filling, you can add sugar according to taste.) If you have a food mixer at home, you can directly pour the bean paste and agar-agar water into it. Then you can pour it into a flat-bottomed plate, let it cool at room temperature, and then put it in the refrigerator to cool. Just cut it into diamond shapes or small squares when eating.

Red bean cake is a traditional delicacy in the ancient town of Yanghe, China. It is also called wheel cake in Taiwan, China. The classic ones include red beans, mung beans, cream, taro, and the special ones include innovative salty fillings such as potatoes, curry, sesame, shredded radish, etc.

How to make

1. Special for red bean cakes One kilogram of powder.

2. Weigh 1000 grams of water, add 200 grams of powdered sugar, and stir.

3. Add 2 eggs into the stirred sugar water.

4. Slowly add a packet of special red bean cake powder and stir while adding.

5. Add 20 grams of oil, stir and leave for 30 minutes.

Finally pour it into the mold and bake.

Cake crust preparation steps

Mix raw material 1 until uniform, mix raw material 2 and sieve, after sieving, add raw material 1 to the sieved powder, and stir evenly;

Add ingredient 3 to the above slurry and stir until even, let it sit for 40 minutes before use

How to make red bean paste

Soak the red beans overnight Finally, add the pressure cooker, add water until it is twice as high as the beans, add a small amount of rock sugar and an appropriate amount of brown sugar, cover the pot and cook over high heat, wait for 18 minutes and then turn off the heat. Add maltose and rock sugar twice. Cook until the water dries up and the beans become sandy, then stop the heat.