How long does it take to cook millet?

Millet is a type of rice and also a type of rice with relatively high nutritional value. In daily life, many people cook millet porridge to eat, because millet porridge has a good stomach-nourishing effect and can also supplement the human body with a variety of nutrients. Of course, you can also add other ingredients when cooking millet porridge. The cooking time will vary depending on the ingredients added. Below, I will introduce to you several ways to cook millet porridge!

1. Soybean and Millet Porridge

Cuisine and efficacy: Toddler recipes, preschool children recipes, elderly recipes, nourishing recipes, menopausal recipes

Materials:

Ingredients: 100g millet, 50g soybeans

Seasoning: 10 grams of white sugar

Cooking method:

1. Grind millet and soybeans separately, put the millet into a basin to settle, drain the cold water, and mix with boiling water; sieve the soybeans to remove the residue.

2. Add about 1500 ml of cold water to the pot, bring to a boil, add soybean milk, boil again, add millet, and simmer over low heat.

3. When the rice is soft and the beans are cooked, add sugar to season, stir evenly, and serve.

Food incompatibility

Millet: Millet should not be eaten with almonds.

2. Millet and Chinese Yam Porridge

Ingredients: 40 grams of Chinese yam (about 100 grams of fresh product), 50 grams of millet, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Cooking method: Wash and mash the yam or slice it, cook it with millet into porridge, add appropriate amount of white sugar and mix well after it is cooked.

Usage: Take on an empty stomach.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and stops diarrhea, helps digestion and relieves stagnation. It is suitable for children with weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, milk and food stagnation, no appetite for milk and food, loose stools, etc.

Features: Nourishes the middle and replenishes Qi, harmonizes the spleen and benefits the kidneys. It is suitable for indigestion, poor appetite, malnutrition in children, and weakness after illness or childbirth.

Note: Millet is corn. The Compendium of Materia Medica names this porridge "corn porridge". Chinese yam is one of the four major Chinese medicines, and Henan iron stick yam is the best.

3. Brown Sugar Millet Porridge

Ingredients: 150 grams of millet, 5-10 red dates, a little crushed peanuts, a little melon seeds, and 10 grams of brown sugar.

Cooking method:

1. Prepare the ingredients: millet, red dates, brown sugar and nuts. The nuts can be added whole or chopped.

2. Wash the millet clean, put it into a soup pot and soak it in clean water for about 30 minutes. Wash the red dates, remove the core, and chop the red date flesh for later use.

3. Take a soup pot, pour in appropriate amount of water, add millet after boiling, turn to low heat and simmer slowly. When the millet grains are blooming, add chopped red dates, stir evenly and continue to simmer. When the red dates are soft, add brown sugar and chopped peanuts, mix well, and simmer for a few minutes before turning off the heat.