If you want to say Jia Fu in a Dream of Red Mansions, it is royalty and noble family. There is no food at home, but Jia Mu just wants porridge. It's nothing. It's strange that such a big Jia family doesn't cook more porridge, and everyone has to "eat and do" tightly. What porridge is so precious that it is rare in Jiafu?
It turns out that this dish is rare in the famous Jia family. Only grandma Jia drinks porridge called "red rice porridge". What kind of rice is this Redmi, and why is it so precious?
According to expert analysis, Redmi should belong to red glutinous rice, which is what we people call blood glutinous rice.
It turns out that this Redmi is red glutinous rice, belonging to the type of glutinous rice. There are two kinds of glutinous rice, white and red. Redmi is red glutinous rice, commonly known as blood glutinous rice. This kind of rice is rare and has high nutritional value. In the Qing Dynasty, it was designated as "Imperial Palace Meal". Therefore, only the royal family like Jia Fu can eat this kind of "red rice porridge" made of imperial rice. So rare, of course, you have to "eat and cook".
Experts also said that this kind of rice should have higher nutritional value than white glutinous rice. It has the function of nourishing and astringing glutinous rice. At the same time, because it is red in the blood, it can be better regulated, one for enriching blood and the other for promoting fluid production.
Then there is glutinous rice. Why is there such a big difference between different colors? What does the color of food represent?
In fact, there is a theory. In other words, different colors of food have different health effects. Generally speaking, black enters the kidney, yellow enters the spleen, cyan enters the liver and red enters the heart. So the Redmi we are talking about today is red, and it enters the heart, while Chinese medicine says that the heart governs blood, which shows that its efficacy is related.
Let's go and see what preparations are needed to make this red rice porridge.
The raw materials needed to prepare this porridge are: red rice 100g, medlar 10g, red dates10g, and rock sugar 20g.
Red Redmi is OK, so what kind of health care effects do other colors of rice have?
Black stands for rice variety: black rice.
Black rice can effectively tonify kidney and yin. So it is suitable for some elderly people to nourish, and it can make eyes brighter and hair whiter after eating.
White stands for rice species: glutinous rice.
Glutinous rice has a very special effect, that is, diuresis, sweating and diarrhea. So many friends, for example, are often weak, easy to sweat, or often urinate endlessly, so it may be better to eat glutinous rice.
Yellow stands for rice seed: millet.
Millet itself supplements the spleen and stomach. At the same time, it also has the effect of treating insomnia, so if you are a friend with poor sleep, you can drink some millet porridge at dinner to help you sleep.
You see, different colors of rice have different health effects. After understanding their respective functions, you can choose rice of corresponding color to cook porridge to regulate your body according to your own needs. For example, if you want to invent something, drink more black rice porridge, and if you want to soothe your nerves and help you sleep, drink more millet porridge. Of course, if you want to nourish blood, you should drink more red rice porridge that we recommend to you today.
The raw materials needed to make this red rice porridge are: Redmi 100g, Lycium barbarum 10g, red dates10g and rock sugar 20g.
Production: The production method of this red rice porridge is: wash Redmi first, and then soak it in clear water for 4 to 6 hours. After 4 to 6 hours, you can cook porridge. First, pour an appropriate amount of water into the pot, and boil the water with high fire. When the water boils, we wash the red dates and Chinese wolfberry and put them aside. After the water is boiled, we put the soaked Redmi into the pot and continue to cook it with high fire. After boiling, we add the prepared red dates, cook them on medium fire for 20 minutes, then add Lycium barbarum after 20 minutes, and then cover the pot and cook them slowly for about 1 hour. 1 hour later, the porridge is almost ready. At this time, we add rock sugar, which is rich in nutrition and good in color, smell and taste.
Besides nourishing blood, what other special effects are there? Let's go on to see what is said in A Dream of Red Mansions.
Grandmother Jia ate some lipstick and rice porridge, and ordered the rest to be sent to Xifeng. We know that Wang Xifeng has always been smart and won the favor of the grandmother. Is it just to let Wang Xifeng taste porridge at this time? Actually, it's not. The red rice porridge given to Wang Xifeng by Jia Mu has a special meaning. In fact, grandma gave Xifeng this porridge in this way, which is in line with the mechanism of TCM health preservation. It turned out that just the night before, Wang Xifeng had to lie in bed because she raided the Grand View Garden, and the leaked old hair recurred and bled heavily. Grandmother Jia sent this red rice porridge to Wang Xifeng and invited him to eat. Does this red rice porridge really have a therapeutic effect on Wang Xifeng's metrorrhagia?
According to experts, Redmi can also use astringency to treat this persistent bleeding, metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia syndrome, as well as these symptoms.
Sending a porridge can cure Wang Xifeng's metrorrhagia. It seems that the Jia people really know how to keep in good health, but you must not think that as long as it is Redmi, it is suitable for search's illness. There is also a kind of Redmi, whose appearance and color are very similar to those of Redmi, but its efficacy is totally different. Not only can it not cure Wang Xifeng's illness, but if a patient with metrorrhagia or Rainbow Xifeng symptoms eats it, it may even. You should definitely buy it. We'll tell you later. Let's review the specific method of this red rice porridge first.
The making method of this red rice porridge is: firstly, wash Redmi, and then soak it in clear water for 4 to 6 hours. After 4 to 6 hours, you can cook porridge. First, pour a proper amount of water into the pot, and bring the water to a large fire. When the water boils, we wash the red dates and Chinese wolfberry and put them aside. After the water is boiled, we put the soaked Redmi into the pot and continue to cook it with high fire. After boiling, we add the prepared red dates, cook them on medium fire for 20 minutes, then add Lycium barbarum after 20 minutes, and then cover the pot and cook them slowly for about 1 hour. 1 hour later, the porridge is almost ready. At this time, we add rock sugar, which is rich in nutrition and good in color, smell and taste. This bright red rice porridge is very suitable for Xifeng women in Rainbow who suffer from uterine bleeding or menorrhagia, but not all red porridge is suitable.
We are now popular all over the world with monascus. And many people make it into porridge to drink. Monascus rice itself is rice, which is formed after being infected by monascus. Good at reducing blood fat, promoting blood circulation and eliminating dampness. Then if this kind of rice is cooked into porridge for Xifeng, it will be just the opposite.
It turns out that there are still so many health concerns about drinking porridge, or how to say that Chinese medicine culture is "the same source of medicine and food"! Often the food you are very familiar with has an unusual health care effect in the eyes of Chinese medicine.