"Discover 6 Nourishing Porridge Recipes for Women to Enhance Blood & Qi, Fostering Radiant Complexion"
How to Supplement Blood and Vitality?
I believe many people have been concerned about this issue as supplementing blood and vitality is truly crucial. Below, I'll introduce 8 types of porridge that nourish blood and promote beauty, making the process both enjoyable and less daunting!
Recipe 1: Red Date, Peanut, and Red Bean Porridge
Ingredients: 50g red dates; appropriate amounts of peanuts, red beans, brown sugar, rice, and black rice.
Preparation: Rinse the red beans, black rice, rice, and peanuts, and soak for 40 minutes. Wash the red dates and set aside. Pour the soaked ingredients and red dates into a rice cooker, add plenty of water, and cook for approximately 2.5 hours. Once cooked, add brown sugar.
Benefits: This red date porridge is a simple yet effective beauty and blood-nourishing dish. Regular consumption by women can effectively regulate anemia and other related symptoms.
Recipe 2: Tremella Mushroom and Red Date Soup
Ingredients: Tremella Mushroom, red dates, dried longans, and goji berries.
Preparation: Clean all ingredients, soak as needed, and boil in a pot until soft. Consume directly.
Benefits: Tremella Mushroom has nutritional value comparable to bird's nest but at a much lower price, earning it the nickname "poor man's bird's nest." Traditional Chinese Medicine believes it has excellent nourishing and moisturizing effects, particularly suitable for treating chronic and acute conditions caused by dryness and internal heat. Combined with red dates and goji berries, its blood-nourishing effects are doubled.
Recipe 3: Double Red Blood-Nourishing Soup
Ingredients: Sweet potatoes, red dates, and brown sugar.
Preparation: Boil water in a pot, add cooked sweet potatoes and red dates, and stir in brown sugar before serving.
Benefits: Perfect for summer and autumn, this recipe serves as a healthy dessert. Substituting sweet potatoes with pumpkin also yields excellent results.
Recipe 4: Milk and Egg Yolk Porridge
Ingredients: 250ml milk, 1 egg yolk, 2 pears, 100g japonica rice; appropriate amounts of rock sugar.
Preparation: Peel and core the pears, dice them, steam with rock sugar for 15 minutes. Boil an egg, separate the yolk and crush it. Cook japonica rice in milk to make porridge, then add pear dices and egg yolk.
Benefits: This porridge not only tastes delicious but also has the effects of clearing heat, moisturizing dryness, nourishing blood, and regulating menstruation. Milk nourishes blood, supplements deficiencies, benefits the lungs, generates body fluids, and lubricates the intestines. Japonica rice strengthens the spleen, nourishes the stomach, supplements the middle and promotes qi, relieves irritability, and quenches thirst. Egg yolk nourishes yin, moisturizes dryness, nourishes blood and kidneys, and is rich in lecithin. Pears are sweet and cooling, beneficial to the lungs and stomach.
Recipe 5: Porridge with Pig's Heart and Liver
Ingredients: Pig's heart, pig's liver, ginger slices, rice, lettuce, coriander, cornstarch, salt, sesame oil, soy sauce.
Preparation: Marinate washed rice with a little cooking oil and salt for 10-15 minutes, then cook in boiling water for about 20 minutes. Add sliced pig's heart, ginger strips, sugar, and cornstarch, cook for 10 minutes, then add pig's liver and cook for another 3 minutes. Add lettuce strips, coriander, and sesame oil before serving.
Benefits: This dish effectively nourishes blood, calms the nerves, and supplements iron, making it ideal for those with weak qi and blood, pale complexion, or iron deficiency anemia.
