In ancient times, congee was called mee, which is soft and easy to eat and has an appetite enhancing effect. In addition to white rice, the most common daily staple food is congee. When the porridge is boiled and left for a while, a fine, sticky and fragrant substance will be formed on it, which is rice oil, the essence of the porridge, and has a strong tonic effect.
The porridge is made of japonica rice, but in fact, the porridge made of japonica rice with a variety of ingredients is more nutritious. Chinese medicine is concerned about “medicine and food together”, according to the function of the ingredients, as well as the applicable people, can play the health effects you want. We recommend several kinds of porridge for kidney and blood, learn how to make it for yourself and your family.
1.Rose and red dates porridge
The ingredients used are: black rice, white rice, roses, red dates.
How to do: prepare equal portions of black and white rice soaked in water overnight, the next day cooked into porridge, add diced red dates to the porridge and cooked together, before the pot put rose petals, stir evenly can be. Rose can invigorate the blood and remove blood stasis, remove wrinkles and nourish the face; red dates have the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, tonifying the blood and benefiting the qi; black rice has the effect of nourishing the yin and tonifying the kidneys, strengthening the spleen and stomach, benefiting the qi and invigorating the blood.
2. red dates to nourish the blood porridge
Ingredients are: red beans, black rice, rice, peanuts, red dates.
Wash the red beans, black rice, rice and peanuts, and soak them in water for half an hour before cooking. Wash the red dates and set aside. Put the pre-soaked ingredients together in a stew pot, add the right amount of water, fire and simmer for about 2 hours, then turn down the heat and simmer for half an hour. If it is for women, add brown sugar to make the blood tonic more effective.
3.Black glutinous rice porridge for blood
Ingredients: cinnamon, red dates, yam, black glutinous rice, brown sugar.
First, wash the cinnamon, red dates into a pot, add the right amount of water, turn on the high heat and add the prepared yam and black glutinous rice, and then change to low heat stew until all the ingredients are soft and rotten, add the right amount of brown sugar before the pot evenly stirred to eat. The black glutinous rice, cinnamon and red dates in this congee are very good for blood, and yam has the effect of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the spleen, with high nutritional value. One thing to note is that cinnamon is not easy to digest, so the amount of each consumption should be mastered to avoid indigestion.
4.four gods porridge
Ingredients are: lotus seeds, gravy, barley, fresh yam, poria each appropriate amount.
First lotus seeds, gravy, barley clean, add water soaked for 2 hours, cocos ling ground into powder form and set aside. Soak the three ingredients together in a pot stew until cooked and soft, then put the yam and Poria powder cut into cubes, stirring constantly in the cooking process, the ingredients can be cooked. This porridge has the effect of strengthening the body, nourishing the heart and spleen, and can be used as a staple food.
5.Cistanche and mutton porridge
Ingredients: Cistanches, mutton, ginger, round-grained rice, rice wine, each in appropriate amount.
Add Cistanches to three bowls of water and decoct the juice repeatedly, shred mutton into boiling water to remove blood and set aside, boil japonica rice into porridge and add Cistanches juice, mutton, ginger and rice wine in turn, boil again and then eat. It has the effect of nourishing the kidney and Yang, especially for those who have cold body and cold hands and feet, it has a great improvement effect.
