How to make pepper porridge

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Ingredients for pepper porridge

Ingredients: 100 grams of japonica rice, 5 red dates, 3 grams of peppercorns, 5 grams of green onion, and appropriate amount of water.

How to make pepper porridge

1. Wash the pepper with warm water to remove the ash, wipe dry, put it in a bowl and grind it into fine powder; wash the polished rice and drain it; wash the red dates and soak them in clean water; wash the scallions and cut them into short sections. Set aside.

2. Put a clean pot on fire, add appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil, then add rice and red dates. After boiling, remove the foam, turn to medium heat and cook until the rice is soft and the soup is thick, then add pepper and scallion segments and continue cooking for 5 minutes before serving.

Features: Glutinous, fragrant and delicious, with strong peppery flavor.

Chef's Tip: Choose high-quality peppercorns and grind them into a very fine powder for better medicinal effects.

Health Tips

This porridge warms the middle and strengthens the stomach, helps fire and dispels cold. It is suitable for coldness in the middle jiao, stomachache, abdominal pain, vomiting of clear water, loss of appetite, etc. It is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and real heat in the stomach.

Side dish pairing recommendation: Green pepper and pork belly shreds. Reason for recommendation: Green pepper is spicy and warm in nature, which can warm the middle and dispel cold, remove dampness and stimulate appetite; pork belly is warm in nature, which can benefit the stomach and spleen and replenish deficiency. Cooking the two together has the effect of warming the stomach and dispelling cold. Eating it with pepper porridge has a good therapeutic effect on symptoms such as cold pain in the abdomen in winter.

Other names: Meiluzhi, floating pepper, jade pepper.

Nature and flavor: spicy, hot.

Meridians: Enters the stomach meridian and large intestine meridian.

Efficacy: Pepper warms the middle, relieves gas, eliminates phlegm and detoxifies.

Indications: Treat cold phlegm and food accumulation, cold pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting of clear water, diarrhea, cold dysentery. And detoxify food.

Dosage: For internal use: decoct in water, 0.5-1 qian; or make into pills or powder. For external use: grind into powder and apply or put into plaster and stick.