Nutritious Congee Recipes

Autumn Porridges for Dryness
After autumn, climate turns cool and dry. TCM calls this "dryness" which most easily damages lungs. Porridge is simple and effective for protecting lungs. Porridge itself harmonizes stomach and strengthens spleen, moistens lung dryness. Adding pear, white fungus, sesame, radish enhances lung-benefiting effects.
Pear Porridge: 2 pears, wash with skin and core, chop, cook with japonica rice 100g. Pears generate fluids, moisten dryness, clear heat and resolve phlegm.
Wood Ear Porridge: White fungus 5-10g, soak until expanded, cook with japonica rice 100g, red dates 3-5 pieces. Nourishes yin, moistens lungs, benefits stomach fluids.
Lily Bulb Porridge: Fresh lily bulb 60g, rock sugar, cook with japonica rice 100g. Clears heart and moistens lungs. Suitable for lingering fever after illness, irritability, palpitations, confusion, chronic cough, coughing blood.
Sesame Porridge: Black sesame, wash, roast, grind. Take 30g, cook with japonica rice 100g. Moistens five organs, tonifies deficiency.
Ophiopogon Porridge: Ophiopogon 20-30g, simmer for juice, add to japonica rice 100g halfway through cooking, add rock sugar. Moistens dryness, nourishes yin, generates fluids. Good for dry cough with scant phlegm.
Sugarcane Porridge: Fresh sugarcane, wash, extract juice about 100g, cook with japonica rice 100g. Sugarcane is cooling, generates fluids, nourishes. "Treats cough with deficiency heat, dry mouth and tongue."