How to eat coix seed
Coix seed is a food with high nutritional value and medicinal value in rice. People with hypertension can be conditioned by eating coix seed. How to eat barley?
Coix seed has high nutritional value and is known as "the king of Gramineae in the world". Coix seed is edible, tastes like rice, is easy to digest and absorb, and can be cooked in porridge or soup.
1, glutinous rice porridge: glutinous rice porridge 50g, seasoned with appropriate amount of sugar. Once a day for a month. It has the effects of invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, and is suitable for spleen and stomach weakness, rheumatoid arthritis, edema, unfavorable flexion and extension of hands and feet, flat wart of skin, etc.
2, glutinous rice ginkgo soup: 60 grams of glutinous rice, 8- 12 ginkgo (shelled), the same soup, seasoned with appropriate amount of sugar (or rock sugar). Has effect in invigorating spleen, remove dampness, clearing away heat and expelling pus.
3. Coix seed beauty wine: Coix seed powder 100g bottled, soaked in 400 ml rice wine, and can be drunk after one week, 20 ml each time. If mixed with orange juice, lemon juice, apple juice and other juices, the drinking effect is better. Has effects in caring skin, and can be used for treating pachylosis and verruca plana.
There are many ways to eat Job's tears, but people can't eat Job's tears for a long time. Because of its cold nature, it is not recommended for pregnant women and people with constipation. Long-term consumption may lead to infertility.
The practice of barley porridge
Coix seed is a kind of rice, which has the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, clearing away lung heat and stopping diarrhea. Coix seed also has the functions of lowering blood pressure and resisting cancer. Therefore, patients with hypertension can eat barley for conditioning. What is the practice of barley porridge?
1, slimming barley porridge
30g of coix seed and proper amount of sugar are used as raw materials. Wash coix seed, put it into a casserole, add some water, then put the casserole on strong fire to boil, and then simmer it with slow fire. After the coix seed is boiled, add sugar and eat it at will. It can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, lose weight and reduce swelling.
2, loquat barley porridge
Raw materials are fresh loquat fruit (peeled) 60g, coix seed 600g and fresh loquat leaves 10g.
Method 1. Washing loquat fruit, removing core and cutting into small pieces; Wash loquat leaves and cut into pieces. 2. First, put the loquat leaves in a pot, add a proper amount of water, and cook for 15 minutes. Remove the leaf residue, add the coix seed and cook the porridge. When the coix seed is cooked, add the loquat fruit, and cook evenly until the porridge is finished.
Features: Rice rotten porridge is thick and loquat is fragrant.
Efficacy: Loquat is sweet, sour and flat, and has the effect of moistening lung and relieving cough. Contains sugar, protein, cellulose, pectin, organic acid, vitamin C, tannin, etc. Loquat leaves have the effects of clearing away lung-heat, resolving phlegm, regulating stomach and stopping vomiting. Loquat and barley porridge have the effect of clearing away lung heat. It is suitable for treating acne caused by lung heat.
Job's tears porridge is simple, but because of its cold nature, it is not recommended for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold to eat for a long time.
Winter melon barley sparerib soup
Coix seed can be eaten not only in porridge, but also in soup. For example, winter melon and barley ribs soup is a dish with high nutritional value and good taste. How to make winter melon barley sparerib soup?
Wax gourd and barley ribs soup is a famous dish of Han nationality, which has good color, flavor and belongs to Fujian cuisine. The soup is light and pleasant, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis, resolving hard mass, reducing blood lipid, lowering blood pressure and promoting diuresis. Cleaning wax gourd, peeling, removing seeds and cutting into pieces; Wash ribs and cut into pieces; Remove the barley. Blanch the ribs with boiling water first, then wash the blood stains, put them in a pot and add water to boil, skim off the floating foam, add yellow wine, cover and stew for about 20 minutes, then add coix seed and wax gourd, cook until the ribs and wax gourd are cooked, and season with salt and chicken essence.
Matters needing attention
1, moisture on human body: too much moisture will hurt the kidney, so you should eat more wax gourd; If you have more calories, you will feel sad. You should eat more bitter gourd.
2. Stewing pig's trotters, ribs and chicken with highland barley in winter is a nourishing food, and cooking porridge or cold drinks with highland barley (chilled highland barley) in summer is a good tonic for summer heat and fitness.
3. If you feed your baby milk powder at home, it is recommended to cook some glutinous rice water-based milk powder every week, which is mainly used to remove dampness and fire.
This soup needs to be light, so as not to lose its original flavor.
After this soup is cooked with wax gourd, it should be stewed slowly with low fire to avoid the wax gourd from being overcooked.
6. When making this soup, you can wash the skin of wax gourd and cook it together if you are interested. After cooking, remove the skin of winter melon when eating, because the skin of winter melon is also of high nutritional value, so it is a pity to throw it away.
Wax gourd and barley ribs soup is a nourishing health soup, but it should be noted that people with weak spleen and stomach or pregnant women should not take it for a long time, otherwise it will affect their health.
Side effects of coix seed
Side effects of Coix seed Coix seed is a nourishing product with high nutritional value, anticancer, blood pressure lowering and diuretic effects, and it is a food suitable for all ages. However, not everyone can eat barley. Can eating barley for a long time have side effects?
The role of coix seed:
1. is a commonly used diuretic for eliminating dampness, which is beneficial to detumescence, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, relaxing muscles and tendons, removing arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus.
2. Used for hair: it can nourish hair, prevent hair loss and make hair smooth and soft.
3. Used for skin: can make skin smooth, reduce wrinkles and eliminate pigmentation spots. It has obvious curative effect on facial acne and rough skin. In addition, it also has the ability to absorb ultraviolet rays, and its extract can also achieve sun protection and ultraviolet protection when added to cosmetics.
In addition, coix seed is a kind of pickled food. Soft cooking or decoction is more conducive to gastrointestinal absorption. People who often feel tired and have no strength can eat more. Coix seed is rich in protein decomposing enzyme, which can soften skin cutin. Long-term use is also effective for those with wart, rough and unsmooth skin.
Side effects of coix seed:
Because coix seed is cold, it is not suitable for long-term consumption in large quantities, generally not more than a week. Long-term consumption alone in large quantities will lead to kidney-yang deficiency, physical decline, decreased resistance, and serious infertility. Moreover, according to past experience, women avoid eating at the beginning of pregnancy; In addition, people who sweat less and are constipated should not eat it.
Therefore, people should not eat too much coix seed. Moreover, people with severe spleen and stomach deficiency or cold, pregnant women, people with weak constitution, often chapped lips or thirsty are not suitable for long-term consumption.