The principle of eating porridge for dieters is roughly the same as that for those with three highs. Add a little chewing flavor to porridge, and you will have lower blood sugar response and higher satiety. Beans can be soaked for a short time, but miscellaneous grains can't be soaked. Within an acceptable range, the texture of porridge should not be too soft and rotten. Don't throw away the water soaked in miscellaneous grains, because it contains vitamins, potassium and various antioxidants.

Tip: Cook miscellaneous grains and bean porridge easily.

If there is an electric pressure cooker, cooking miscellaneous grains porridge is very simple. Directly put all kinds of materials into the pot, add 6-8 times the weight of raw materials, then cover the pot, press the button of "eight-treasure porridge" or "porridge cooking", then wait for the program to end, restore normal pressure, and open it to eat. A rice cooker with the function of "miscellaneous grains porridge" can also be used, but if it is cooked for a little longer, it will lose some fragrance because of steam overflow. It is also very simple to have a rice cooker. You can let it simmer for two or three hours, and then keep warm, but the loss of vitamin B 1 will increase.

At present, most household cooking appliances, including electric pressure cookers, rice cookers, electric stews and electric steamers, have reservation functions. Go out in the morning to add ingredients, set a good time, and go home at night. The delicious eight-treasure porridge is ready. You can also make an appointment to cook porridge before going to bed at night. Get up in the morning, the temperature of porridge is just right. Open the lid and enjoy. It's no trouble at all.

Without these cooking tools, it would be a bit troublesome, because beans, lotus seeds, oats, brown rice and other ingredients need to be soaked for a period of time in advance. Generally speaking, beans need to be soaked for 8- 12 hours in advance, and miscellaneous grains only need to be soaked for 2-4 hours. For the sake of simplicity, put all kinds of materials directly in the container, add water to the ingredients and soak them in the refrigerator overnight.

The purpose of soaking ingredients in the refrigerator is to avoid bacteria exceeding the standard. These nutrients are also very popular among bacteria. If you leave it at room temperature overnight, especially when the room temperature is relatively high, the problem of bacterial overgrowth will occur. Although you can kill bacteria after cooking, you don't have to worry about safety, but the flavor and taste of the ingredients will be destroyed, affecting the sense of food.