1. It is best to soak lotus seeds 1-2 hours in advance. Lotus seeds bought in the supermarket have been pitted. If not, remember to go or the porridge will be bitter.

2. Millet can be washed, but not rubbed, washed or soaked in hot water or soaked for a long time. Just wash the medlar, don't soak it. Add water and lotus seeds. After the water boils, boil for about 40 minutes.

3. Then add millet and cook until the rice is rotten and the lotus seeds are tender. Add Lycium barbarum 5 minutes before cooking, and then add rock sugar or sweet-scented osmanthus sugar according to personal taste.

Lotus seeds and millet can be cooked together; Millet is slightly cold, sweet and rich in tryptophan, which has the effect of strengthening stomach and helping sleep. Lotus seeds can soothe the nerves, nourish the heart and kidney, and dredge the heart and kidney. Millet lotus seed porridge has a good effect on insomnia, and it is helpful to sleep when taken before going to bed.

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Millet is not only nutritious, but also has the effect of nourishing the stomach. Chinese medicine believes that millet is sweet, salty and cool, and enters the kidney, spleen and stomach. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that Xiaomi "treats nausea and heat dysentery, cooks porridge, benefits the abdomen, supplements deficiency and stimulates appetite". Therefore, it is very beneficial to the elderly who are frail, sick, deficient in qi and blood and weak in spleen and stomach. Jiang Liangduo, a professor of internal medicine at Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, bluntly said: "Millet is the most nurturing person."

Jiang Liangduo pointed out that although it is a very good practice to cook millet porridge, in line with the principle that all grains should be mixed, potatoes, sweet potatoes, Chinese dates, lotus seeds and lilies can be added to millet porridge and cooked together to balance its nutrition. In addition, because porridge is easy to absorb and blood sugar rises rapidly, diabetics need to be careful when drinking porridge.

Reference: People's Network-Xiaomi porridge is golden porridge.