Correct practice of barley and red bean soup
Ingredients: Coix seed and red beans.
Exercise:
1. Wash Coicis Semen and red beans, put them in a stone pot and add enough water;
2. Shoot until the raw water in the pot is boiled, then cook for 3 minutes and turn off the fire for 30 minutes;
3, shoot again, cook until the raw water in the pot boils again, cook for another 3 minutes, and simmer for 30 minutes;
4. Filter out the soup and drink it as water. Red beans and barley can be eaten as rice or porridge. If you like sweet, add some sugar.
Tips for cooking barley and red bean soup
1, red beans and barley need to be soaked. If you don't soak it, cook it twice immediately, and the nutrition will flow out.
This soup is not porridge, so the soup is soup, rice is rice, and beans are beans. Be careful not to add rice.
3. Try to use a stone pot, which has good heat preservation and the actual effect of stewing is better. (You can also use a pressure cooker, so that the soybeans will be softer and worse. )
4, quantity and proportion, each person just grab a small handful, don't put too much, or cook a large iron pot, add as much water as possible, and put less rice and beans.
Nutritional components of coix seed and red bean soup
Speaking of the function of highland barley and red bean soup, it is simply extraordinary.
Coix seed, called "Coix seed" in Chinese herbal medicine, is listed as a good product in Shennong Herbal Classic. Long-term administration can eliminate dampness, benefit the stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish the body and replenish blood.
Red beans, known as "adzuki beans" in Chinese herbal medicine, also have obvious effects of promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach. Because they are bright red and deeply rooted in people's hearts, they can also nourish the heart.
Contemporary people have too much pressure, lack of heart, diet, low exercise intensity, spleen deficiency and damp heat. It is necessary to eliminate dampness and replenish the heart, but also to strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, and it is nothing but glutinous rice and red beans, which does not put much pressure on the stomach.
Taboo of barley and red bean soup
One: Pregnant women are forbidden to eat.
Pregnant women, if they don't feel that the moisture in their bodies is too heavy, it is best not to take coix seed, because coix seed still contains cold characteristics.
Two: you can't eat it as medicine.
Although coix seed has the function of softening blood vessels and blood sugar, it is only a healthy food after all and cannot be used as medicine.
Third; Do not cook with rice.
Because rice grows and develops in water, there is a certain amount of water in the body, and the key function of red bean barley porridge is to remove water. If rice is added when cooking, the porridge will thicken and the effect will be worse.
Four: people who sweat less and are constipated should avoid eating.
Because coix seed is "fragrant and wet", water is discharged from the urethral orifice and the stomach is dry. Eating barley and red bean soup will always aggravate constipation.
Five: People with poor digestion and absorption ability eat less.
Coix seed has high sugar viscosity, and eating too much may hinder digestion and absorption. People with poor digestion try to avoid eating or not eating.
Six: women in physiological period should not take it.
Because coix seed can make the body cold, it is not suitable for long-term use, so women who meet the physiological period should prevent taking it.