Millet, Yam and Red Dates Porridge

Millet, yam and red dates porridge tastes very delicious and has good effects. Let’s learn about it together.

Millet, Yam and Red Dates Porridge

Today I want to introduce two kinds of porridge that are both nutritious and medicinal. Their main ingredients are millet. The Compendium of Materia Medica says that millet "treats stomach nausea and dysentery, and eating it as porridge can benefit the dantian, replenish deficiency, and open the stomach." The medicinal effect of millet should not be underestimated.

The first kind of porridge I want to introduce to you today is millet and red dates porridge. Its main effects are: tonifying the spleen and relieving restlessness, calming the mind and soothing the nerves, treating insomnia, nightmares, poor appetite and dry stools.

The first ingredient we need is jujube. Wash the jujube and put it aside. Then turn on the fire to make porridge. We should put millet in after the water is completely boiled. This will not only cook the porridge faster, but also will not stick to the bottom of the pot. I also want to warn you to avoid using a pressure cooker to make millet porridge, because the millet particles are relatively broken and can easily block the valve of the pressure cooker, which will cause some safety hazards. Then put the jujube in and cook it with the porridge. Jujube is also very comprehensive in nutrients. It not only has a sedative, hypnotic and blood pressure-lowering effect, but also can delay aging, enhance the body's resistance and maintain skin elasticity. After putting the jujube in and boiling it, a layer of foam will appear on the top, and then we have to skim off the foam on top and remove the impurities. Then cook it on low heat. If you are worried about overflowing the pot, you can add a little cooking oil.

It will be better if you add some honey before drinking this red date millet porridge. Honey contains not only glucose, fructose, sucrose and other major sugars, but also vitamins, essential amino acids and trace elements that are indispensable to the human body. It can also make the porridge taste more delicious. But here I want to warn you that you must put the porridge in a not too hot state before adding honey, because if the temperature of the porridge is too high, it will destroy the nutrients contained in the honey.

Introduction to millet, yam and red dates porridge

The second kind of porridge is millet and yam porridge, which has the main effects of strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, and promoting digestion and relieving stagnation. It is also suitable for children with weak spleen and stomach and indigestion.

The ingredients needed to make this porridge are sweet potatoes and yam. We need to cut them into pieces separately. When cutting yam, it is easy to make your hands itchy. Here are some tips. The first is to soak your hands in diluted vinegar before cutting. This way, your hands will not itch when cutting yam. Another way is to put your hands on the lit stove when you feel itchy after cutting yam and roast them with fire. Just be careful not to burn your hands.

After the millet is cooked, you can put the sweet potatoes and yam in. Sweet potatoes contain dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins A, B, C, E and more than 10 trace elements such as potassium, iron, copper, calcium, etc. Eating them regularly is very good for your health. However, I would like to warn you here that no matter how you cook sweet potatoes, you must cook them thoroughly before eating them, because the cell membrane of the starch in sweet potatoes is difficult to be digested by our stomach without being destroyed by high temperature.

Yam is even more nutritious. In addition to its rich nutrients, the most important thing is that it is a very good weight loss food. It provides the human body with a large amount of mucus protein, which is a mixture of polysaccharide proteins. It can maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, prevent the premature occurrence of atherosclerosis, and reduce subcutaneous fat deposition to avoid obesity.

Generally, after boiling for a while, we can use chopsticks to pick up the sweet potatoes and yam to see if they are cooked. If they are cooked, we can serve them out. We can also add some rock sugar to season it before drinking. This millet and yam porridge is particularly effective for regulating weak spleen and stomach and indigestion, and this yam porridge is also helpful for weight loss.