Black Chicken Porridge

Black chicken plays an important role in traditional Chinese medicine and has always been a good tonic for women. Black chicken can be added to dishes to make delicious dishes, and it is also a wrinkle-proof and anti-aging beauty supplement. Here, the editor would like to recommend a black chicken recipe: black chicken thick porridge. Let's learn it together.

How to make black chicken porridge

1. Soak two scallops and two shiitake mushrooms until soft, then cut into shreds for later use.

2. Remove the onion, ginger and garlic from the chicken soup, add scallops, shredded asparagus and rice and simmer over low heat to make porridge.

3. Transfer the porridge to a casserole, bring to a boil over low heat and season with salt and white pepper.

4. Add the other half of the black-bone chicken and sprinkle with chopped green onions.

Nutritional value analysis of black chicken porridge

Black-bone chicken is undoubtedly a good medicinal bird for women to take as a tonic. Black-bone chicken is native to Taihe, Jiangxi Province. It is named for its black skin, black meat, black bones, black tongue, black crown, cherry head, green ears, beard and other characteristics. Black-bone chicken has extremely high edible and medicinal value and is a rare tonic. According to traditional Chinese medicine, black-bone chicken is mild in nature, sweet in taste, non-toxic, enters the liver and kidney meridians, and has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, nourishing qi and blood, relieving deficiency fever, regulating menstruation, and stopping leucorrhea. It is said in the Compendium of Materia Medica: "Black chicken can replenish the deficiency, benefit postpartum women, treat women's metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, and all kinds of deficiency diseases." It is also recorded in the Essentials of Materia Medica: "Black chicken can replenish the deficiency, is sweet and mild, chicken belongs to wood, black bones belong to water, and can benefit the liver and kidney, reduce fever and replenish deficiency." It is said in the Chinese Medicine Dictionary: "Black chicken has the essence of water and wood, enters the liver and kidney meridians, and is a good tonic. It is said that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a villager presented Taihe black chicken to Emperor Qianlong. Emperor Qianlong saw that Taihe black chicken not only had outstanding appearance, but also tender meat, and delicious fragrance. He regarded it as a rare and precious product and named it "Wushan Chicken" and listed it as "tribute chicken". From then on, Taihe black chicken became famous.

Modern research and analysis shows that the medicinal value of black chicken is three times that of ordinary chicken. It contains lysine, methionine and histidine which are indispensable to the human body, and has a very high nourishing medicinal value. In particular, it is rich in melanin which has extremely high nourishing value. It has the effects of nourishing yin, nourishing the kidney, nourishing blood, replenishing essence, benefiting the liver, and replenishing deficiency. It is a traditional food and medicine tonic for young, middle-aged and elderly women to nourish the skin and keep them youthful forever.

Black chicken can be used alone as a tonic, or it can be used in combination with other tonics to make a therapeutic meal.

It should be noted that although black chicken is a good tonic, eating too much can produce phlegm and fire, generate heat and wind. Therefore, people who are obese, have excessive evil qi, have not cleared up evil toxins, and suffer from serious skin diseases should eat less or avoid eating it. It is also not suitable for eating when suffering from serious external diseases. At the same time, spicy and greasy food, tobacco and alcohol should be avoided.