Nutritious Congee Recipes

Tuber & Fruit Porridges
Porridge is the most important type of dietary therapy, loved by patients and elderly for good taste and easy digestion. Here are several tuber and dried fruit porridges:
Sweet Potato Porridge: Fresh sweet potato 250g, peel and shred, cook with japonica rice 200g, add sugar. Suitable for constipation, bloody stool, headache, thirst, chronic alcoholism, vitamin A deficiency.
Taro Porridge: Taro 100g, peel and cube, cook with indica rice 100g to thick porridge. Strengthens spleen-stomach, reduces lymph nodes. Suitable for lymph node swelling, TB, childhood lymph nodes, stomach pain, low back pain.
Chinese Yam Porridge: Peel, slice, dry yam. Take 30g, cook with glutinous rice 50g on low heat to thick porridge with oil film. Add sugar. Strengthens spleen, tonifies lung, nourishes kidney, secures intestines. For spleen weakness, poor appetite, loose stools, chronic cough, kidney deficiency nocturnal emission, diabetes.
Potato Porridge: Potato 100g, peel and cube, cook with indica rice 100g, add osmanthus and sugar. Regulates middle, harmonizes stomach, strengthens spleen, benefits qi. For eczema, gastric ulcer, habitual constipation.
Red Date Porridge: Red dates 10-15, soak, cook with japonica rice 50-100g and sugar. For all deficiency syndromes, spleen deficiency diarrhea, fatigue, palpitations, insomnia, night sweats, anemia, malnutrition, low white blood cells, low platelets.
Eight Treasure Lotus Seed Porridge: Glutinous rice 500g cooked, divide into 10 bowls. Honey dates 100g, steam; winter melon strips 50g, hawthorn cake 50g, diced; tangerine cake 50g, minced; lotus seeds 50g, cooked separately; white fungus 10g, cooked. Layer all ingredients, serve cold.