Nutritious Congee Recipes

Summer Heat-Clearing Porridges
Hot summer brings discomfort and poor appetite. Several heat-clearing porridges:
Pear Porridge: 3 pears, wash and chop, simmer 30 minutes. Remove residue, add rice to porridge, serve hot. Treats wind-heat, lung heat cough, poor appetite, dizziness in children.
Winter Melon Porridge: Winter melon 500g, peel and seed, cube. Ham, minced. Sauté scallion in sesame oil, add winter melon, ham, water and rice. Boil then simmer to porridge. Season with salt. Clears heat, nourishes stomach, promotes urination. For summer irritability, thirst, edema, painful urination.
Luffa Porridge: Young luffa 250g, peel and cube. Cook rice to half done, add luffa and salt, continue to porridge. Clears heat, benefits intestines, cools blood, detoxifies. For fever with thirst, hemorrhoid bleeding.
Watermelon Rind Porridge: Watermelon rind 250g, remove outer skin and pulp, dice, salt lightly. Cook with rice, boil then simmer 15 minutes. Season with salt. Clears summer heat, generates fluids, promotes urination, reduces swelling. For summer thirst, heat stroke, scant urine, nephritis edema, diabetes.
Coix Seed Porridge: Coix seed 50g, soak 5 hours. Cook with rice to porridge. Disperses wind, eliminates dampness, promotes urination, reduces swelling. For rheumatic arthritis, beriberi, edema.