Can I eat overnight porridge after heating it up?

Many elderly people are quite frugal and will keep reheating leftover food and eating it again until they finish it. In fact, this is a wrong behavior, because many foods will produce substances that are harmful to the body after being reheated. Can you eat overnight porridge if you heat it up? As long as the ingredients are not spoiled, you can eat overnight porridge if you heat it up. Below is an introduction to cooking Eight Treasure Porridge. Let’s learn about the techniques of cooking Eight Treasure Porridge.

1. Can Eight Treasure Porridge be eaten overnight?

Nutritionists say that Eight Treasure Porridge can be eaten overnight. However, if you drink it after leaving it overnight, you must heat the porridge thoroughly, otherwise you will easily get diarrhea.

The ingredients and preparation of Eight Treasure Porridge are very simple. The finished product is bright in color, soft and sweet in texture, attractive in fragrance, smooth but not greasy. It replenishes iron, blood, nourishes qi, and calms the mind.

2. Tips for cooking eight-treasure porridge

Most families cook Eight Treasure Porridge by adding a large amount of refined white rice and a small amount of other ingredients. The nutritional value of this method is relatively limited. This eight-treasure porridge does not contain any white rice, so you can fully enjoy the nutritional and health benefits of other ingredients. Because it has a strong sense of filling and its vitamin and mineral content is much higher than ordinary white porridge, it is suitable for pregnant women and nursing mothers as a staple food for dinner. It can help women lose weight slowly or control rapid weight gain during pregnancy without reducing the supply of nutrients or affecting lactation.

Purple rice and oats have good stickiness, which can make the porridge taste sticky and delicious. However, oatmeal grains are difficult to cook and need to be soaked in advance. If you use oatmeal instead, there is no need to soak it in advance.

If the pressure cooker can be scheduled, just put all the ingredients and water in and schedule it for 4 to 8 hours. Note that it can be cooked for about 8 hours in winter and no more than 4 hours in summer to avoid excessive bacterial growth and taste change.

You can replace some ingredients according to the availability of your own grains, but try to add as little refined white rice as possible. Do not add sugar to Eight Treasure Porridge. It must be eaten in its original flavor to avoid reducing the nutritional value by adding sugar.

3. How long does it take to cook eight-treasure porridge?

1. Put various hard-to-cook beans and rice into an ordinary thermos, add boiling water, and leave it for more than ten hours. Then pour it out and cook it in an ordinary pot or pressure cooker. I have used this method several times and highly recommend it!!! It is very convenient and greatly shortens the cooking time. The cooked porridge is sticky and delicious!!

2. Soak the red dates in cold water for 20 minutes, then wash the skin; steam them together with mung beans, longan, lily, lotus seeds, etc. for 30 minutes and set aside. Wash glutinous rice and japonica rice and put them in a pot. Cook them over low heat for 40 minutes. Add the above ingredients and cook them briefly. Then add winter melon candy or white sugar and a small amount of salt to avoid it being too sweet.

3. It is best to soak it for a few hours so that the porridge will taste good and be easy to cook. If you use an ordinary pot, you need to cook it on low heat for an hour and a half. If you use a pressure cooker, just turn to low heat after boiling and it will take less than half an hour. However, if the rice is soaked for too long, the taste will be affected and it will not taste good. So it’s best not to buy pre-mixed eight-treasure porridge ingredients. Otherwise, buy ingredients with similar steaming and cooking times, and take a close look at what’s inside when you buy them.

4. When making porridge, ingredients such as lotus rice and peanuts should be soaked in boiling water for a certain period of time before being put into the pot and cooked together.