Nutritious Congee Recipes

Summer Heat Porridges
Lotus Seed Porridge: Lotus seeds 50g, japonica rice 100g. Good for chronic diarrhea.
Garlic Porridge: Purple garlic 25g, japonica rice 100g. Calms spirit, lowers blood pressure, treats dysentery.
Peanut Porridge: Peanuts 50g, crush with skin, cook with japonica rice 100g, add rock sugar. Moistens intestines. Add yam for spleen qi deficiency; lily bulb for lung deficiency dry cough; red dates for anemia.
Lotus Leaf Porridge: Fresh lotus leaf 1, wash, cook with rice to thick porridge, remove leaf, add salt or sugar. Clears summer heat, calms heart, lowers pressure, aids digestion. Good for children's summer fever.
Atractylodes Porridge: Atractylodes 50g, red dates 20, japonica rice 100g. Strengthens spleen, benefits qi, promotes digestion.
Fresh Lotus Root Porridge: Fresh lotus root 500g, mash, cook with japonica rice 100g. Benefits qi and nourishes yin, strengthens spleen and opens appetite, clears heat and generates fluids, cools blood and disperses stasis. Treats blood in stool and urine.
Chrysanthemum Porridge: Hangzhou chrysanthemum 6g, honeysuckle 6g, roast to powder. Cook rice to 70-80% done, add powder. Prevents heat stroke, wind-heat cold, headache, red eyes. Good for hypertension and coronary disease.
Mung Bean Porridge: Mung bean 100g, japonica rice 100g. Clears summer heat, generates fluids, prevents heat stroke, quenches thirst, treats boils.
Watermelon Porridge: Watermelon rind 2 parts, japonica rice 1 part. Cook rind with rice to thick porridge, remove rind, add sugar or honey. Clears summer heat, relieves irritability, promotes urination.
Silver Ear Porridge: Dried silver ear 6g, soak. Cook with glutinous rice 100g, add rock sugar. Nourishes yin and generates fluids, moistens lungs and nourishes stomach, benefits qi and harmonizes blood. Treats deficiency cough, bloody phlegm, yin deficiency thirst.
Lily Bulb Porridge: Japonica rice 100g, lily bulb 100g.