When the millet porridge is almost cooked, we can add some sugar, open the casserole and keep stirring. The porridge in the pot is getting thicker and thicker 10 minutes until the porridge is sticky.
Actually, cooking porridge is not that simple. It is not that you can make delicious millet porridge drops by putting water and rice together. Here are some tips for cooking millet porridge:
1. You should choose fresh millet instead of old rice, the taste will be much worse.
2. When the water is about to boil, put in the rice. Simmer for 8- 10 minutes with high fire, and then simmer for 15-20 minutes with medium and small fire.
3. Don't be lazy. Stir the pot immediately after dinner to prevent the bottom of the pot from burning. When simmering, try to uncover the lid as little as possible, and leave a gap when you can cover the lid to prevent overflow.
Put enough water in the pot, and don't add water in the middle. Water is generally 15-20 times that of ingredients. Bottled water can be used instead in areas with poor water quality.
Some areas like to add edible alkali to make rice soft and rotten. When cooking for more than half an hour, add a little edible alkali, but the taste of millet porridge with edible alkali will be affected. (Not recommended for pregnant women and babies)
6. When the rice is in flower shape, it tastes better.
Extended data
Millet, that is, millet, can stimulate appetite, tonify deficiency and benefit the abdomen. It can be used for nourishing people with deficiency of qi and blood, physical weakness and loss of appetite. It is suitable for fatigue, listlessness and poor diet caused by hypogalactia and postpartum weakness, and can be eaten as breakfast. Millet porridge in winter and spring is more suitable for lying-in women. Many women in northern China have a tradition of adding millet and brown sugar to regulate their health after giving birth.
Millet contains a variety of vitamins, amino acids, fats and carbohydrates, and has high nutritional value. Every 100g of millet contains 9.7g of protein and 3.5g of fat, which is not lower than that of rice and wheat. Generally, there is no carotene in cereals, but the content of millet is 0. 12 mg per 100 g, and the content of vitamin B 1 ranks first among all cereals.
The sugar content of millet is also very high, 72.8 grams per 100 grams, and the heat output is much higher than that of rice. In addition, millet is rich in vitamin B 1. B2, etc. It also has the function of preventing indigestion and aphtha.
Therefore, millet can be said to be the most ideal tonic for old, weak, sick and disabled pregnant women. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that Xiaomi "treats nausea and dysentery, cooks porridge, benefits farmland, supplements deficiency and opens the stomach". Chinese medicine also says that millet is "warm in the stomach" and thinks that millet is sweet and salty, and has the effects of clearing away heat and quenching thirst, invigorating stomach and removing dampness, calming the heart and calming the nerves. It is more suitable for people with internal heat and weak spleen and stomach.
Some people have a bad appetite. After eating millet, it can stimulate appetite, nourish stomach, strengthen stomach, promote digestion and prevent nausea and vomiting.
Under the pressure of work, modern people's stomach discomfort has become a common problem. When eating, loss of appetite has become the mantra of many people, and various drugs that help digestion and increase gastric motility are popular in TV advertisements. In fact, there is a kind of stomach-nourishing food which is the greenest and has the least side effects, and that is millet.
Millet can relieve bad breath and reduce the growth of bacteria in the mouth. Millet is rich in amino acids, which can resist bacteria and prevent female vaginitis. Millet is rich in nutrition, among which tryptophan ranks first among cereals, and tryptophan has the function of regulating sleep. Drinking millet porridge before going to bed can make people sleep well.
References:
Xiaomi porridge-Baidu encyclopedia