Hawthorn, Lotus Seed and Red Date Porridge

Hawthorn, lotus seeds and red dates porridge is very delicious and it is extremely simple to make. Let’s learn some knowledge about it.

Hawthorn, Lotus Seed and Red Date Porridge

Ingredients: 100 grams of rice, 30 grams of hawthorn, 50 grams of lotus seeds, and 20 grams of red dates.

Seasoning: 10 grams of rock sugar.

practice:

1. Wash the glutinous rice and set aside; wash the hawthorns, blanch them in boiling water and remove the core; after the lotus seeds are soaked, take out the lotus core; wash the red dates, remove the core and set aside.

2. Put the pot on the fire, pour in appropriate amount of water, glutinous rice, lotus seeds, and red dates and cook for 25 minutes. Add hawthorn and rock sugar and cook for 10 minutes.

Nutritionist's advice

Red dates have a mild nature and have good tonic effects. When cooked with lotus seeds, glutinous rice and hawthorn, they have the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, astringing the intestines and consolidating essence, nourishing the heart and calming the mind, and stimulating the appetite and digestion.

Hawthorn, lotus seeds and red dates porridge recipe - the efficacy and function of pear porridge

Pear Congee

Ingredients: 100 grams of glutinous rice, 80 grams of duck pear.

Seasoning: 10 grams of rock sugar.

practice:

1. Wash the glutinous rice; wash the pears, peel and cut into pieces for later use.

2. Put the pot on the fire, add appropriate amount of water, put in glutinous rice and cook for 10 minutes, then add pears and cook for 20 minutes, add rock sugar and cook until melted.

Chef's Tips

Soak glutinous rice in clean water for 1 hour before cooking, and add a few drops of vinegar. This will save time when cooking porridge.

Nutritionist's advice

Pears have the effects of promoting salivation, moistening dryness, clearing away heat, and resolving phlegm. They are suitable for symptoms such as thirst caused by loss of body fluid due to heat disease, diabetes, hot cough, phlegm-heat and madness, choking, thirst and aphonia, red and swollen eyes, and indigestion.

Gorgon Fruit and Poria Cocos Porridge

Ingredients: 15 grams each of Gorgon fruit and Poria cocos, 100 grams of rice.

practice:

1. Wash the Euryale ferox and Poria cocos, drain the water, and mash them; wash the rice clean.

2. Put the chopped Euryale ferox and Poria cocos into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil until soft, then add rice and cook until it becomes porridge.

Nutritionist's advice

This porridge nourishes the kidney and replenishes qi, and is suitable for symptoms such as impotence and spermatorrhea caused by kidney deficiency and weak qi.