Six health preserving Congee in the Complete Recipe for Calm and Nourishing in Spring should not be missed

Spring diet should mainly consist of light vegetables, eat less spicy food, reduce the proportion of fish and meat, and not be too impatient when taking tonics, with a focus on balanced tonics.

Recommendation 1: celery japonica rice porridge

Material: 120g celery, 100g japonica rice, 2g salt, 1g monosodium glutamate

Practice:

1. Clean celery with roots and cut it into 2cm long segments.

2. Then place the washed glutinous rice and celery pieces together in an aluminum pot.

3. Add proper amount of water and boil it with fire, and then boil it gently until the rice is rotten into Congee.

4. Add an appropriate amount of monosodium glutamate and salt for seasoning.

Efficacy: The liver yang is easy to move in spring, which often causes headache, dizziness and red eyes. Eating this Congee often can calm the liver and reduce blood pressure.

Recommendation 2: leek japonica rice porridge

Material: 50g new leeks, 100g japonica rice, appropriate salt.

Recipe:

1. Wash fresh chives and cut them finely.

2. First boil japonica rice as Congee. After Congee is boiled, add leeks and salt and cook it into porridge.

Effect: Tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, consolidating essence and stopping stagnation, strengthening spleen and warming stomach. Suitable for abdominal cold pain, diarrhea, constipation, impotence, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission, enuresis in children, excessive vaginal discharge in women, and soreness and coldness in the waist and knees caused by spleen and kidney deficiency.

Recommendation 3: Black sesame japonica rice porridge

Material: japonica rice, black sesame, medlar

Method:

1. Black sesame is roasted in low heat, then crushed for standby. Wash the glutinous rice thoroughly. Soak goji berries in warm water.

2. Put black sesame seeds and glutinous rice together in a pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes.

3. Add soaked goji berries and cook for another 10 minutes.

Efficacy: It has a history of more than 2000 years in China to cook Congee with japonica rice for health preservation. The top layer of Congee oil of japonica rice Congee can replenish fluid and essence, which is most suitable for patients, puerpera and the elderly.

Recommendation 4: carrot Congee

Material: carrot, 100g japonica rice

Method:

1. Clean 1~2 carrots (according to personal preference) and cut them into thin shreds. After boiling water, stir fry with vegetable oil, scallions, ginger powder and other seasonings for use.

2. Boil Congee with 100g japonica rice and water. When it is almost ripe, add the fried carrots and cook it together.

3. Sprinkle some cilantro and sesame oil when cooking, and a tempting fragrance immediately enters your nostrils, making your fingers twitch.

Efficacy: Carrot Congee is rich in vitamin A. People with poor appetite, dyspepsia, dry skin, night blindness, and hypertension can often eat this Congee.

Recommendation 5: Taro spareribs and brown rice porridge

Materials: taro 200g, spareribs 400g, brown rice 200g, rice 200g, proper amount of oil, salt, ginger slices, scallions

Practice:

1. Soak the brown rice overnight in advance, add rice to clean it, and first pour the rice into the soup pot.

2. Prepare pork ribs and ginger slices.

3. Add pork ribs and ginger paste to remove blood, pour into a soup pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium heat.

4. Process the taro and finally pour the soup into the pot. Cook for another 10 minutes and sprinkle chopped green onions before eating.

Effect: Sweet taro has the effects of dispersing and regulating qi, detoxifying and tonifying the spleen, clearing heat and relieving cough.

Recommendation 6: Congee with red dates and walnuts

Materials: 100g rice, 50g glutinous rice, 65g ten golden jujubes, 50g raw walnuts, 20g purple raisins, 5g green and red silk, 1500ml water.

Practice:

1. Soak the raisins in warm water, and then wash them for standby. Soak the walnut kernels in hot water for 30 minutes.

2. Soak the golden jujube in warm water until soft and set aside. Peel the softened walnut kernels.

3. Chop the peeled walnut kernels into small pieces for later use. Wash the mixture of rice and glutinous rice thoroughly.

4. Bring the soup to a boil and add rice, glutinous rice, and crushed peach kernels separately.

5. Put in the washed golden jujube and simmer over low to medium heat until the rice is tender and sticky, about one and a half to two hours.

6. After the rice is cooked until it becomes sticky, add raisins and simmer for another 10 minutes before serving. Sprinkle with green and red shreds while it is still hot, and it can be eaten with brown sugar or side dishes.

Efficacy: If you drink this Congee regularly, it can improve your intelligence, brain, hair and beauty, nourish the middle and qi, warm your stomach and spleen.