Chestnut and Red Date Porridge

I believe everyone is familiar with chestnut and red date porridge . Let me introduce to you the method of making this porridge in detail.

Chestnut and Red Date Porridge

After the chestnuts are made into porridge, they taste slightly sweet and fragrant. The chestnuts become sweeter and softer, and they are very delicious. I haven't cooked porridge properly for a long time. In these days when the weather is getting colder and colder, drinking a bowl of porridge cooked by myself warms my whole body and makes me feel happier. It seems that this porridge can really bring warmth and happiness to people.

Ingredients for chestnut and red date porridge

Half glutinous rice and half rice, more than 10 cooked chestnuts, and 10 red dates.

How to make chestnut and red date porridge

1. Wash glutinous rice and rice, soak them in clean water in advance, put them into the pot with appropriate amount of clean water, add red dates, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for about 30 minutes over low heat, stirring in the middle to prevent sticking to the bottom of the pot;

2. Cut the cooked chestnuts into small pieces;

3. After 30 minutes, add chestnut pieces and continue cooking for about 20 minutes until the porridge becomes thick.

Tips

If you like sweet porridge, you can add rock sugar or white sugar. You can also eat it with pickles. It’s up to your personal preference whether it’s sweet or salty.

Nutritional analysis of chestnut and red date porridge

Chestnut

Known as the "king of dried fruits", it is also known as chestnut, big chestnut, and chestnut fruit. It tastes sweet and fragrant. It is a top-grade fruit that nourishes the stomach and kidneys and prolongs life. The chestnut nut is purple-brown, covered with yellow-brown hairs, or nearly smooth, with light yellow flesh. Chinese chestnut varieties can be roughly divided into two categories: northern chestnut and southern chestnut. Famous varieties include Mingli, Jiandingyouli, Mingjianli, etc.

red dates

It is not only a food deeply loved by the people, but also a commonly used Chinese medicine. Modern pharmacological research has found that red dates contain more protein, amino acids, sugars, organic acids, vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin C, P, etc., as well as trace elements calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, magnesium, aluminum and a large amount of cyclic adenosine monophosphate. It is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of nourishing the spleen and replenishing qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, producing body fluids, detoxifying drugs, and alleviating the properties of drugs. Traditional Chinese medicine has long used the method of "liver nourishing soup" formulated with red dates to nourish the liver and detoxify. Professor Sheng Guoguang, director of the Institute of Zangxiang Liver Diseases of Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and doctoral supervisor, introduced that red dates have the effects of protecting the liver, strengthening the spleen, lowering cholesterol, increasing white blood cells, and anti-allergic.