Ingredients and preparation of Job's tears and lotus seed porridge

Barley and lotus seed porridge is a common health-preserving porridge in life. It can harmonize the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and blood, and also lower blood pressure and prevent cancer. It is an indispensable health food. Although barley and lotus seed porridge is good, do you know the ingredients and preparation methods needed for it? If you don't know, let me tell you.

Ingredients and preparation of Job's tears and lotus seed porridge

Ingredients for Barley and Lotus Seed Porridge

The ingredients for making barley and lotus seed porridge are not complicated. You only need 80 grams of barley, 80 grams of polished rice, 30 grams of lotus seeds, 30 to 40 grams of rock sugar, and an appropriate amount of water.

How to make barley and lotus seed porridge

1. Wash the lotus seeds with clean water, then soak them in an appropriate amount of warm water. After soaking for three or four hours, the lotus seeds will become soft and soaked. At this time, take out the lotus seeds and remove the lotus core for later use.

2. Wash the coix seeds and glutinous rice with clean water, put them into a pot and add appropriate amount of clean water, turn on the fire and cook. After boiling over high heat, turn to medium or low heat and simmer slowly.

3. After boiling for half an hour, put the soaked lotus seeds into the pot and continue cooking until the rice becomes sticky and the lotus seeds are cooked. Then add rock sugar and cook for a while, then turn off the heat and simmer for about ten minutes. You can take out and put it in a bowl and eat it after it cools down.

4. When adding polished rice to this barley and lotus seed porridge, it cannot be eaten with Xanthium sibiricum or horse meat, otherwise it will cause adverse symptoms such as abdominal pain, which is particularly harmful to your health.