After the baby grows up slowly, they can start adding complementary foods. At this time, many mothers will search online for various complementary food recipes and want to make them for their babies to eat. And white porridge can be said to be very common, with common ingredients and easy to make as a complementary food. In fact, even simple white porridge has some things to pay attention to. So let's take a look at how to make white porridge for babies.
How to make white porridge for babies
Material:
1 small cup of rice, 6 small cups of water
Method:
1. Put the rice in the pot and wash it once, then add water to the pot;
2. After turning on the high heat, reduce the heat and simmer for thirty minutes until cooked. Then, turn on the high heat until it becomes sticky.
Quick Tips
1. Be sure to add enough water at one time. Adding water halfway will affect the taste of Congee. Be careful not to let Congee juice overflow when cooking porridge!
2. Master the cooking temperature of Congee: first boil it with high fire and then quickly change it to low fire;
3. Continuous stirring makes it sticky: when boiling over high heat, keep stirring constantly, and don't worry about it when boiling over low heat;
4. It is good to cook Congee with rice under cold water: Congee will be more fragrant and soft only when the rice fully absorbs water
The advantages of babies drinking white porridge
1. Easy to digest and absorb
Compared with white rice, white rice Congee has the advantage of easy digestion. White rice porridge takes longer to cook and has more water content, so the starch is more fully gelatinized and easier to be broken down into glucose by amylase in the small intestine and absorbed into the blood.
2. Reduce gastrointestinal burden
White rice Congee is cooked for a long time, which also makes a little protein or amino acid dissolve in it, making it easier to digest. Therefore, compared with solid foods such as white rice, white rice Congee can reduce the burden of gastrointestinal digestion of babies.
3. Can sweat and dissipate heat
White rice Congee is the first choice of complementary food for babies because it is easy to digest and nutritious. Autumn and winter are coming, and babies are prone to colds. Drinking more hot Congee at this time can help sweat, dissipate heat, dispel wind and cold, and promote the cure of colds.
4. Warm the stomach, nourish the spleen, clear heat
Babies with poor appetite due to weak spleen and stomach and insufficient stomach qi after illness are mostly caused by weak spleen and stomach and long-term or short-term anti-inflammatory drug stimulation, while white rice porridge is easy to digest and absorb and can nourish the spleen, playing a role in protecting gastric mucosa.
5. Clearing the intestines and removing food accumulation with heat
White rice porridge also has a good effect on poor appetite and constipation caused by food accumulation. It can clear away intestinal heat and remove food accumulation. It is no exaggeration to say that white rice Congee should be the food that often accompanies the baby from the beginning of adding complementary food.
6. Rice oil is like ginseng
After the Congee is cooked, there is a layer of delicate, viscous, cream like material floating on it. In Chinese medicine, it is called rice oil, commonly known as Congee oil. Its nourishing effect is no less than ginseng, and its nourishing yin effect is not inferior to Rehmannia glutinosa. Eating rice oil, which is black and thin, will make it fat and white in a hundred days.
After the above understanding, are you amazed that such a simple white porridge has such great value. In fact, many foods in daily life are like this. By learning more, we will understand that many of the foods we often eat have their own properties and contain different nutrients, but we just don't pay attention to them in our daily lives. Knowing the recipe for white porridge, hurry up and write it down to make a bowl for your baby.
