The Nutritional Benefits of Squid and Lean Meat Porridge for Children's Breakfast

January 31, 2024

  Breakfast should be the most nutritious, and drinking porridge in the morning is the best for the stomach. Squid and lean meat porridge is beneficial for digestion and ventilation, and it is the best nutritional supplement for children's development. Including it in a child's breakfast menu is the best choice.

 

 

  Name

Squid and lean meat porridge

  Method

1. Soak the dried squid in water for 8-12 hours, until it becomes soft. Remove the white squid bone and eyes in the middle, and clean it.

2. Wash and cut into thin strips, marinate with oil, salt, sugar, soy sauce, cooking wine, and ginger shreds for a while.

3. Cut the lean meat into small thin slices, add a little salt, sugar, ginger shreds, rice wine or cooking wine, soy sauce, and marinate for about 15 minutes.

4. After washing the rice, put it in a pot and add an appropriate amount of water. Boil it over high heat, add the dried squid, and simmer over medium heat for about 30 minutes, until the rice cracks and the porridge thickens. Then add the lean meat, boil for 3-5 minutes, and add salt to season.

5. After turning off the heat, you can add white pepper powder and sesame oil to the porridge, transfer it to a bowl, and sprinkle with green onions before serving.

  Precautions

1. Soak the dried squid in cold water for 8-12 hours until it becomes soft before cooking.

2. You can also cook the dried squid until it becomes soft, and then add rice to make porridge.

3. You can also add dried tangerine peel to the porridge. Dried tangerine peel has a fragrant smell and can remove fishy smell, relieve greasiness, and invigorate the spleen and stimulate appetite.

3. Squid has a sweet, salty, and neutral taste. It contains protein, carbohydrates, various vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and other minerals. It has the effects of tonifying yang and strengthening the body, nourishing the liver and invigorating qi, nourishing blood and moisturizing yin, nourishing blood and tonifying the kidneys, invigorating the stomach and regulating qi, stopping bleeding, and reducing blood lipids.

4. People with hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, and liver disease should be cautious when eating squid.

5. People with eczema, urticaria, gout, kidney disease, diabetes, and allergies should avoid eating squid.

  Ingredient Introduction

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that squid meat has a salty and neutral taste, and it has the effects of nourishing blood and moisturizing yin, invigorating the stomach and promoting ventilation, and removing stagnation and relieving pain. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says, "It invigorates qi and strengthens the will." "The Great Ming Materia Medica" states, "It benefits people and regulates menstruation." The "Dietary Prescriptions at Suixi Residence" states, "It treats salty mouth, nourishes the liver and kidneys, nourishes blood vessels, regulates extraordinary meridians, heals excessive menstruation and urinary leakage, regulates menstruation and vaginal discharge, treats hernia and masses, and is most beneficial to women." Women can consume it to nourish blood, improve eyesight, regulate menstruation, stabilize pregnancy, facilitate childbirth, stop bleeding, promote lactation, and regulate irregular menstruation. Li Shizhen called squid "a medicine for blood division" and a treasure for women with anemia and blood deficiency and irregular menstruation.

1. Nourish the kidneys and regulate qi

Dried squid has the effects of strengthening yang, nourishing blood and tonifying the kidneys, and invigorating the stomach and promoting ventilation.

2. Ideal ingredient for women

Regardless of the menstrual period, pregnancy, childbirth, or lactation, consuming squid is beneficial. It has the effects of nourishing blood, improving eyesight, regulating menstruation, stabilizing pregnancy, facilitating childbirth, stopping bleeding, and promoting lactation.

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