Speaking of red beans and barley, in fact, these two ingredients are both medicine and food. As medicines, they have the effects of detumescence, eliminating dampness, clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, invigorating spleen and promoting digestion. Moreover, red beans and coix seed are coarse grains, which can be eaten as staple food and contain a lot of carbohydrates. They can be eaten as food or drunk as tea. Many female stars recommend red bean coix seed tea, which can eliminate dampness and lose weight. Friends who love beauty must make a bowl for themselves after reading it.

Name of the dish: red bean and barley porridge

Required materials: red beans 100g, coix seed 100g, glutinous rice 100g, and 50g raisins. You can also add jujube, medlar, lotus seeds, tremella and other ingredients according to your personal taste.

Cooking steps:

1. First, you need to prepare the main ingredients of red bean and barley porridge, including red beans, barley, glutinous rice and raisins.

2. We separate red beans and coix seed and wash them in two bowls. After cleaning, we need to soak them in pure water for one night. This is to make red beans and barley taste softer and easier to cook. (Red beans can choose adzuki beans, and the effect of eliminating dampness is better than that of red beans. )

3. Prepare a pot, add a proper amount of drinking water to the pot, and pour the red beans into the pot.

4. Pour in red beans. We need to cover the pot, simmer over high heat, and then turn to low heat to continue cooking.

When the red beans are soft and rotten, we need to add barley and glutinous rice to the pot. (Adding glutinous rice makes the red bean glutinous rice porridge softer and glutinous. The taste of glutinous rice is very smooth, and the layering in the mouth will be richer. )

6. When the glutinous rice is poured into the pot, it needs to be stirred slowly and continue to simmer.

7. After observing the thick soup, we need to add the prepared raisins and simmer for 3 minutes.

8. Sweet and soft red beans can be cooked in glutinous rice porridge. It tastes better in summer after cooling, and it is an instant nourishing holy product or a weapon for removing dampness in summer.

9. Rich in nutrition. Give it a try!

Cooking skills:

1. First of all, when we choose coix seed and red bean, coix seed should be small as far as possible, and red bean should be red bean, so that the overall effect is better whether it is food supplement or dampness removal, and lactating women, pregnant women and babies should not eat it.

2. Red beans and barley must be washed and soaked overnight. This practice will make the taste of red beans and barley more soft and rotten when cooked. Is the entrance soft? If it doesn't foam, we waste a lot of time, manpower and heat when cooking, and the taste is not as good as that after soaking.

3. Add them in order when cooking, otherwise the glutinous rice is cooked and the red beans are not cooked, and the red beans will taste better if cooked for a long time. When cooking, you need to stir constantly, otherwise the pot will be burnt, and finally it will be sweeter and softer if you need to stew with a small fire.

4. Red bean glutinous rice porridge can be added with different ingredients. According to personal taste, you can add red dates, longan, Sydney, yam and other ingredients to match the taste.