Every white rice every meal, do you feel it’s a bit monotonous?
In fact, making a small change when cooking can not only make the white rice more delicious, but also have many benefits!
will not be kept in the market. This change is to sprinkle some "ingredient" while cooking. What is the "material" of
? Let me tell you about it today!
Add it every day to cook rice, there are so many benefits!
Add grains: laxatives and prevent cancer, blood sugar, blood lipids also stabilizes
① Add oat
Oats are rich in linoleic acid, which has auxiliary therapeutic effects on patients with fatty liver, diabetes , constipation, etc., and can also help reduce cholesterol in the human body.
Generally speaking, oats have the effects of relieving constipation, lowering blood lipids and lowering blood sugar. They are a low-sugar and high-nutrition food for .
There are so many kinds of oats, how to choose?
Native oats Traditional oats Quick-ripening oats Instant Oats Puffed Oats
Purchasing tips: Suggest you to buy oatmeal that only has the ingredient oats in the ingredient list.
② Add quinoa
Compared with some grains, quinoa is not that famous, but it is very good~
First of all, eating quinoa can supplement protein .
As a plant, quinoa has 9 essential amino acids of human body, and is rich in content, balanced in proportion, and easy to absorb. Its protein quality is comparable to milk protein, and its absorption and utilization rate is relatively high.
Moreover, the dietary fiber content of quinoa is 7%, which is also a high level in cereals. High dietary fiber content can help laxatives, increase fullness, and help control weight.
Purchase tips: Good quinoa has uniform grains, large and full, good integrity, and few minced grains; poor quinoa has small grains, not full in the middle, and many minced grains and small grains.
Add roots: tonify qi and nourish yin, nourish the spleen and stomach
①Add sweet potato
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sweet potato enters the spleen and kidney meridians, can not only nourish the spleen and stomach, stimulate appetite and digest food, but also nourish the kidney yin and make the human body strong.
It is worth mentioning that sweet potatoes contain a lot of dietary fiber, which can absorb water in the intestines, increase the volume of feces, and help prevent and treat constipation.
In addition, eating sweet potatoes regularly also helps promote the excretion of harmful substances in the body, which can reduce the incidence of intestinal diseases and prevent colorectal cancer.
Purchasing tips: First look at the epidermis. Do not buy sweet potatoes with black or brown spots, wrinkles, cracks, or soft pits on the epidermis. Do not buy sweet potatoes with insect holes; look at the cut surface. After peeling the skin, the flesh is stronger and moisture, and the color is normal.
②Add ym
ym has the reputation of "civilian ginseng", which has the functions of nourishing qi and nourishing yin, nourishing spleen, lungs and kidneys, and consolidating sperm and stopping belts.
However, yam nourishes yin and can help dampness. Some people with full dampness and stagnation should not be taken. For example, patients with symptoms such as indigestion, abdominal distension, and hiccups.
It is the season for taking yam now. Friends who like to eat it should not miss it~
Tips for treating yam: Saconin in the yam skin or plant alkaloids in the mucus can easily cause skin allergies.It is best to wear gloves first when cutting raw yam or put a bag on your hands. If you accidentally have allergies, you can apply rice vinegar evenly on the itchy skin to relieve discomfort.
Add beans: reduce fire and improve eyesight, beautify and nourish the beauty
① Add Black beans
Speaking of the function of black beans, many people will think of "tonifying the kidney". In fact, in addition to nourishing the kidneys, eating black beans can also promote blood circulation and improve eyesight. It is used for vision and is very suitable for people who often use computers.
In addition, black beans are also a good ingredient for beauty. It is recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that black beans can make people "grow skin and improve color", which means they make people's skin tone better.
Health reminder: Black beans should not be eaten too much, as it will cause bloating. People with poor stomach and prone to bloating should not eat black beans; the elderly and children have poor digestive abilities, so they should not eat too much.
②Add mung bean
Li Shizhen said that mung beans are "a good valley to save the world", not blowing.
mung beans are "a wider in pipe". As long as you have " real fire " in your body, mung beans can be used, which are suitable for all seasons.
For example, when eating too meat and too spicy, we will get "ignited", and symptoms such as red and swollen eyes, sore gums and sore throat, or nose bleeding . Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this is caused by excessive fire and excessive evaporation of body fluids, and the mung beans that are cold and enter the stomach meridian can reduce the "fire".
Health reminder: Do not eat mung beans during the period of taking warm tonics (such as ginseng, Astragalus , cloves, galangal, cinnamon , aconite , etc.), so as not to dilute the warmth of the medicine and reduce the efficacy.
Finally, I will share with you a few tips for cooking -
Learn 4 tips and eat delicious rice!
. Wash the rice no more than 2 times
. Wash the rice too many times, which will not only cause a large amount of nutrients in the rice, but will also reduce the taste of the rice. So, wash the rice 1 to 2 times.
2. Master the ratio of rice to water
1 meter to water is 1:1.2~1.4, and it is generally more appropriate to have a water higher than 2~4 cm.
Tell you a simple method: put the index finger into rice water, as long as the water exceeds the first joint of the index finger.
3. Add some oil or vinegar
Before covering the lid of the pot, add half a tablespoon of vegetable oil to make the cooked rice oily and bright and distinctive.
In addition, add a few drops of rice vinegar before steaming the rice to make the steamed rice soft and fragrant. Replacing vinegar with lemon juice or citrus juice can also achieve the above effects and eliminate the stale smell of rice.
4. After the rice is cooked, simmer for a while
After the rice cooker enters insulation mode, do not turn off the power immediately, let it be in insulation for 5 minutes. The stewed rice not only tastes better, but also does not stick to the pot easily.
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