Lotus Seed, Lily, Mung Bean Porridge

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Lily, Lotus Seed and Mung Bean Porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of lily, 50 grams of Hunan lotus seeds, 200 grams of mung beans, 100 grams of white rice, 100 grams of sugar, and 500 grams of tangerine peel.

How to make lily, lotus seeds and mung bean porridge

1. Soak the lilies in clean water and set aside. Soak and peel the lotus seeds. Wash the mung beans and rice. Soak the tangerine peel until soft and scrape it clean.

2. After the water boils, add lotus seeds, mung beans, rice and tangerine peel and cook together.

3. When the soup is done, add lilies and some sugar to sweeten it. It is ready to eat when it starts to boil again.

The efficacy of lily, lotus seeds and mung bean porridge

Lily is also known as Chongmai, Chongxiang, Moro, Qiangqu, Lily Garlic, Lily Flower, Wild Lily, White Lily, Mountain Lily, Garlic Brain Potato, Zhongfeng Flower, Night Lily Flower, White Lily, Medicinal Lily, etc. It is the scale leaf of the fleshy bulb of the herbaceous plant Lilium and many plants of the same genus (such as Lilium slender-leaved). Because the stem is composed of many fleshy scale leaves, each piece is tightly hugged together, it is named Lily, and Bai means many. It is harvested in autumn and winter, scalded in boiling water or slightly steamed, and dried. In summer, funnel-shaped flowers are blooming, with colors such as red and yellow, yellow, white or light red. The bulbs are mostly oblate, the scales are fleshy, delicate, soft and glutinous, white as jade, sweet and fragrant, with unique flavor and rich nutrition. It is cultivated or wild all over the country.

In folk culture, lily is a symbol of good luck, and it means "everything goes well". Therefore, lily is often given to each other as gifts during festive occasions. People in the south of the Yangtze River often make lily into "lily Ruyi Cake" and "glutinous rice lily porridge" to entertain guests. When children get married, the elderly celebrate their birthdays, or the whole family reunites, they always eat food made with lily to celebrate.

Nutritional components: Every 100 grams of fresh lily bulb contains 56.6 grams of water, 3.2 grams of protein, 0.1 grams of fat, 1.2 grams of ash, 37.1 grams of carbohydrates, 1.7 grams of crude fiber, 0.02 milligrams of thiamine, 0.04 milligrams of riboflavin, 18 milligrams of ascorbic acid, 3 grams of reducing sugar, 10.39 grams of sucrose, 5.61 grams of pectin, 11.46 grams of starch, 11 milligrams of calcium, 510 milligrams of potassium, 6.7 milligrams of sodium, 61 milligrams of phosphorus, 1 milligram of iron, 0.35 milligrams of manganese, 0.5 milligrams of zinc, 0.24 milligrams of copper, 0.2 micrograms of selenium, and 0.7 milligrams of niacin.