I eat white rice every meal, don’t I feel it a bit monotonous? In fact, making a small change when cooking will not only make the white rice more delicious, but also have many benefits! If you don’t keep it in a silence, this change is to sprinkle some “ingredients” while cooking

Eat 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! If you don’t keep it in a silence, this change is to sprinkle some “ingredients” while cooking. What kind of "material" are they all? Let me tell you about it today!

Add it to cooking every day, there are so many benefits!

Add grains: laxatives and prevent cancer, blood sugar, blood lipids also stabilizes

① Add oats oats and oats are rich in linoleic acid, which has auxiliary therapeutic effects on patients with fatty liver, diabetes , constipation and other patients, and can also help reduce cholesterol in the human body. In general, oats have the effects of relieving constipation, lowering blood lipids and lowering blood sugar. They are a low-sugar and high-nutrition food.

There are so many types of oats, how should I choose? Tips for purchasing puffed oatmeal with traditional oats fast-cooked oatmeal instant oatmeal puffed oatmeal: It is recommended that you purchase oatmeal that only has the ingredient in the ingredient list. ② Adding quinoa is not that famous compared to some cereals, but they are so awesome~

First of all, eating quinoa can supplement protein . As a plant, quinoa has 9 essential amino acids in human , 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, quinoa has a dietary fiber content of 7%, which is also a high level in cereals. High dietary fiber content can help laxatives, increase fullness, and help control weight. Tips for purchasing: Good quinoa has uniform, large and full grains, good integrity, and few grains; poor quinoa has small grains, not full in the middle, and many grains and small grains.

Add roots: nourish qi and 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 can also help promote the excretion of harmful substances in the body, which can reduce the incidence of intestinal diseases and prevent colorectal cancer.

Tips for purchasing: First look at the skin, do not buy sweet potatoes with black or brown spots, wrinkles, cracks, or soft pits on the skin, and do not buy those with insect holes; then look at the cut surface. After peeling the skin, the flesh is stronger and moisture-like, and the color is normal. ② Adding yam yam is known as "civilian ginseng". It has the effects of nourishing qi and nourishing yin, nourishing spleen, lungs and kidneys, and consolidating essence and stopping belts. However, yam nourishes yin and can help dampness. It is not suitable for some people with excessive dampness and stagnation. For example, patients with symptoms such as indigestion, abdominal distension, and hiccups. Now is the season for taking yam. Friends who like to eat should not miss it~

Tips for treating yam: The saponin in the yam skin or the plant alkaloid 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 skin① 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: It is not advisable to eat too much black beans, as it will cause abdominal distension. 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 beans Li Shizhen said that mung beans are "a good valley to save the world", and they are not bragging. mung beans are “more widely used”. As long as they have “ real fire ” in their 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", causing symptoms such as red and swollen eyes, sore gums and sore throat, or nose bleeding and .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 care 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 of the medicine.

Finally, I will share with you a few tips for cooking -

Learn 4 tips and eat delicious rice! 1. Washing rice no more than 2 times will not only cause a large amount of nutrients in the rice, but also reduce the taste of the rice. So, wash the rice 1 to 2 times. 2. Master the ratio of rice to water. The ratio of rice to water is 1:1.2~1.4. Generally, water is 2~4 cm higher than rice. Let me 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 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 it is also not easy to stick to the pot.

(Daily push for health)