How to make winter melon porridge

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Ingredients for winter melon porridge

Ingredients: 300g winter melon

Accessories: 180g glutinous rice, 100g pork (lean)

Seasoning: 3g starch (pea), 2g salt, 5g sesame oil, 3g green onion

The characteristics of winter melon porridge: the porridge is soft and sticky, and tastes fresh, salty and fragrant.

How to make winter melon porridge

1. Wash the pork, mince it, add salt and water starch and mix well.

2. Peel the winter melon, wash and slice it.

3. Wash the glutinous rice and put it into the pot, add appropriate amount of water and boil for about 25 minutes, add minced pork and winter melon slices, and cook over low heat for a few minutes. When the porridge is thick, you can serve it, drizzle with sesame oil and sprinkle with chopped green onions.

Health Tips

This porridge is both meat and vegetable, rich in meat nutrition and has the weight-loss effect of winter melon. It is very suitable for the elderly to eat as dinner, which can supplement nutrition without increasing weight.

Food incompatibility

Japonica rice: Tang Dynasty Meng Shen said: "Japonica rice cannot be eaten with horse meat, as it will cause tumors. It cannot be eaten with Xanthium sibiricum, as it will cause sudden heart pain."

Wang Yuying of the Qing Dynasty: "Although fried rice is fragrant, it is dry and helps to stimulate fire. People who are not suffering from cold and diarrhea should avoid it."

Nutritional information of winter melon porridge

Winter melon:

Winter melon contains a variety of vitamins and trace elements necessary for the human body, which can regulate the body's metabolic balance. Winter melon is cold in nature, can nourish the stomach and produce body fluids, clear and reduce stomach fire, reduce food intake, and promote the conversion of starch and sugar in the body into heat energy instead of fat. Therefore, winter melon is an ideal vegetable for obese people. At the same time, winter melon has anti-aging effects. Long-term consumption can keep the skin white as jade, moist and smooth, and can keep the body fit. In addition, winter melon has a good effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Eating more winter melon in summer can not only quench thirst and relieve summer heat, but also promote diuresis and prevent people from getting furuncles. Because it is a diuretic and contains very little sodium, it is a good product for reducing swelling in chronic renal salt edema, malnutrition edema, and edema in pregnant women.