Red Bean, Barley and Gorgon Congee｜a Weapon for Removing Dampness and Invigorating The Spleen

Name: Red Bean, Barley and Gorgon Congee｜a Weapon for Removing Dampness and Invigorating The Spleen
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 Barley; 3 Chicken head rice; 2 red beans; Some crystal sugar

by Su San Feifei

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

2h

Serving

3

Chinese cuisine is rich and diverse. As far as rice is concerned, the diligent and intelligent Chinese can make thousands of different porridge products. Many porridge products have the effect of health-preserving diet. People like to add different ingredients to the porridge, such as wolfberry, red dates, angelica, ginseng, brown sugar, codonopsis and so on.
Many people know that barley has the effect of removing dampness. Barley is slightly cold, so people often cook barley and red beans together, and eat red bean and barley water to dispel dampness.
The red beans in the red bean and barley soup in Chinese medicine are red beans. Although they are called "red beans", they are not the red beans that we usually eat. The red bean is short and fat, and the color is brighter; while the red bean is thin and long, the color is darker and purple.

Ingredients

Red Bean, Barley and Gorgon Congee｜a Weapon for Removing Dampness and Invigorating The Spleen

1. Prepare red beans and barley in advance (I used ordinary red beans and raw barley)

Red Bean, Barley and Gorgon Congee｜a Weapon for Removing Dampness and Invigorating The Spleen recipe

2. Wash the barley and red beans separately with clean water, and then put them together to soak in advance for 1 night. It needs to be stored in the refrigerator in hot weather, and the soaking water needs to be used directly for stewing. The water in which the barley is soaked contains the nutrients of barley, so it should be used for stewing.

3. Thaw the chicken head rice in advance, wash and drain the water. Gorgon is chicken head rice. I use frozen fresh chicken head rice. You can also use dried gorgon, but it needs to be soaked in advance.

4. Put the red beans and barley, together with the soaking water, into the pot.

5. Then add water, the water is about 3 times higher than the chicken head rice and red beans. How much water you add depends on your amount, the size of the pot, and how much soup you want to drink. Some pots evaporate very little during the stewing process, so you can add less.

6. After the high heat is boiled, continue to high heat for 10 minutes, then turn to low heat and simmer for about 1 hour until the red beans and barley bloom.

7. Turn to high heat and add rock sugar. Stir a little if there is less soup.

8. Add the chicken head rice prepared in advance and continue to fire for 1-2 minutes. Just cooked the chicken head rice. If you are cooking with dried gorgon, you need to put it in the pot in advance. The fresh frozen chicken head rice can be eaten when it is boiled in the pot. Don't cook it for a long time.

Tips:
People with heavy dampness often have a bad spleen and stomach, and Gorgon has the effect of invigorating the spleen and stomach. Therefore, red bean and barley porridge is a kind of porridge for removing dampness and strengthening the spleen. With the reduction of dampness and the improvement of weakness of the spleen and stomach, a person's complexion will also improve. Of course, long-term consumption of barley can also have whitening effects. Many things that need attention are mentioned in the article, just look carefully. Share some more points to note:

① I have watched a program of traditional Chinese medicine. The old Chinese doctor said that barley cannot be cooked with rice. Rice is inherently moist. Cooking with barley will increase moisture.
② Although red dates are good nourishing ingredients, food tonics also vary from person to person. Red dates can trap moisture, so people with heavy dampness and bloating should not eat red dates. Do not add red dates to red beans, barley, and gorgon porridge. On the contrary, it will backfire and increase moisture.