1, you must soak the porridge before cooking every time, otherwise it will take too much time. After cleaning the rice, soak it in clear water for at least two hours. Remember, you don't need to put rock sugar in the eight-treasure rice yet, otherwise it will melt.

2. After the eight-treasure rice is soaked, pour out the water inside when cooking porridge, and then heat the water to start cooking. Remember to add more water, or it will be a pot of rice.

3. When cooking porridge, first boil it with high fire, then slowly boil it with medium fire, and stir it with a spoon several times in the middle to avoid burning the pot. You can also use the rice cooker directly without stirring. Then simmer slowly until the eight-treasure porridge thickens, and then add a proper amount of rock sugar to continue cooking until the rock sugar melts and it is cooked.

Extended data

It is true that drinking porridge has many benefits for health. As early as the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen, a great medical scientist, said in Compendium of Materia Medica that porridge is "extremely soft and greasy, compatible with the stomach and intestines, and it is a recipe for diet".

Lu You, a famous poet in the Song Dynasty, even thought that eating porridge could prolong life. It is recognized by the medical profession that porridge can tonify yin, promote the growth of gastric juice, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and tonify deficiency, which is most suitable for nourishing people. After the porridge is cooked, there is a delicate, sticky and ointment-like substance floating on it, which is called "rice oil" in Chinese medicine, commonly known as porridge oil.

Many people disagree. In fact, it has a strong nourishing effect, comparable to ginseng chicken soup. Porridge oil is usually made from millet or rice porridge. Wang Mengying, a medical scientist in Qing Dynasty, thought with interest in his diet spectrum that "rice oil can replace ginseng soup" because it has the same function as ginseng.

Chinese medicine believes that millet and rice are sweet and flat, and both have the functions of tonifying the middle warmer, strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach. After they are used to cook porridge, a large part of nutrients enter the soup, especially porridge oil, which is the essence of rice soup, and its nourishing power is no less than that of precious medicinal materials such as ginseng and radix rehmanniae.

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