First, porridge also includes therapeutic medicine porridge. As a feature of China porridge, it combines traditional nutrition and cooking science, and plays a more important role in improving the national health level. Based on the concepts of "homology of medicine and food" and "simultaneous use of medicine and food", according to the traditional nutrition theory, porridge with corresponding health-preserving and dietotherapy effects, which is mainly based on various health-preserving and dietotherapy foods, or appropriately supplemented with traditional Chinese medicine, is also a part of medicinal diet.
Second, the production of porridge, there are generally two methods of cooking and stewing. The cooking method is to boil with high fire, and then cook with low fire until the porridge soup is thick. Stewing method refers to heating to boiling with strong fire, that is, pouring into a covered wooden barrel, covering the lid tightly and stewing for about 2 hours, which has the characteristics of rich fragrance. Usually cook porridge. In addition, color porridge is made, and porridge is cooked into various ingredients and mixed evenly, such as sashimi porridge.
Third, when cooking porridge, we should pay attention to adding enough water at a time, in one go, in order to achieve the characteristics of uniform thickness and blending rice, soup and water. Rice for porridge can be soaked in clear water for 5-6 hours, then boiled in a pot, or it can be washed and boiled directly in a pot. Soaking before cooking porridge can shorten the cooking time, but soaking is easy to cause nutrient loss. If there is any Chinese medicine in the formula that can't be eaten directly, you can cook soup with Chinese medicine first, then add rice or noodles to cook porridge, or grind Chinese medicine into powder first, and then cook porridge with rice; If the ingredients in the porridge are large, it should be processed with a knife first, and then cooked in a pot to thicken the porridge.
Fourthly, porridge plays an important role in traditional nutrition. Like soup, it has the characteristics of simple preparation, flexible addition and subtraction, wide adaptability and easy digestion and absorption. It is very suitable for long-term consumption and health care, and is known as "the best thing in the world". Not only that, Huang Yungu in the Qing Dynasty also said in his "Porridge Spectrum" that porridge is "the most suitable for the elderly: first, it saves money, second, it tastes complete, third, it moistens, fourth, and fifth, it is easy to digest", and it strongly advocates the health care function of porridge. Lu You also strongly recommended eating porridge for health preservation, thinking that it can prolong life, and wrote a famous poem "Eating Porridge", which wrote, "Everyone in the world is one year older, and the years are not today.
Five, I learned from thousands of people that I only eat porridge for the gods. "I often eat porridge in the morning to adapt to the physiological characteristics of human gastrointestinal emptiness. As Zhang Lei, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, said in The Story of Porridge, "Every morning, if you eat a big bowl of porridge on an empty stomach, your stomach will be weak and full of gas. The tonic is not fine, but it is soft and greasy, which fits your stomach very well and is the best food. "Not only do you want to eat porridge in the morning, but Su Dongpo also advocates eating rice porridge at night, thinking that it can promote innovation and benefit the diaphragm and stomach. It is especially wonderful to sleep after drinking porridge.
Sixth, eating too much fish and meat, that simple porridge often evokes people's feelings. Porridge is suitable for people of all ages and constitutions. A bowl of hot porridge and two dishes of side dishes, usually to the extreme, will make many people have an inseparable complex. Zhang Fangxian, a poet in the Ming Dynasty, said in the poem "Cooking Porridge": "Mo Yan is weak, has a small taste, and tastes long in weakness." This is really a portrayal of porridge. Think about it, when you are sick and tired, porridge is a kind of soothing love. Its light and long taste is often the warm concern of a wanderer in a foreign land. People in China like to drink porridge, probably because they like the quietness and warmth when drinking porridge.