In winter, there is nothing better than using soup for nourishment, and chicken soup is the top choice for every family. Did you know that chicken congee is even more nutritious? You should choose the tenderest part of the chicken to make the congee, which will be nourishing and moisturizing, and simply wonderful!
【The Benefits of Eating Chicken】
1. Warming and invigorating
Chicken has a good therapeutic effect on malnutrition, aversion to cold, fatigue, irregular menstruation, anemia, and weakness. In traditional Chinese medicine, chicken is believed to have the effects of warming and invigorating the body, nourishing deficiency, strengthening the spleen and stomach, promoting blood circulation, and strengthening the tendons and bones.
2. Enhancing digestion
Chicken has antioxidant properties and some detoxification effects. It has a good role in improving heart and brain function and promoting intellectual development in children.
3. Detoxifying
Eating chicken stir-fried with cauliflower can enhance liver detoxification function, improve immune function, and prevent colds and scurvy.
4. Boosting immune system
In modern society, where people are constantly busy and often in a sub-healthy state, white-collar workers are best to eat more chicken to enhance their immunity and reduce the risk of illness. Chicken has the effects of warming and invigorating the body, nourishing essence and marrow, benefiting the five viscera, and replenishing deficiency. It is used to treat symptoms such as weakness, poor appetite, diarrhea, dizziness, palpitations, irregular menstruation, postpartum low milk supply, thirst, and edema.
【Chicken Congee Recipes】
1. Chestnut Chicken Congee
Ingredients: 100g chicken, 50g chestnuts, oil, salt, 1 slice of ginger
Method: Wash the rice and add an appropriate amount of water to a pot. Clean the chestnuts and add them to the pot with the rice. Bring to a boil over high heat. Cut the chicken into small pieces, separating the bones from the meat. Put the chicken bones in the pot with the rice and simmer together. Cut the chicken meat into minced meat, add a little cornstarch, oil, and salt, mix well and marinate for a while. When the congee is almost cooked, add the minced meat and cook together. When the congee has almost no water content, turn off the heat.
2. Mushroom Chicken Congee
Ingredients: chicken breast, carrot, mushrooms, ginger
Method: Cut the chicken breast and carrot into small cubes, slice the mushrooms. Heat a little oil in a pan, add the chicken and ginger, stir-fry, then add a little cooking wine. Add the carrot and mushrooms, add salt, stir-fry until cooked. At the same time, wash the rice and add water to the rice cooker, cook plain congee. After the congee is cooked, add the stir-fried ingredients, mix well, and continue cooking for 5 minutes. Season with MSG and spring onion.
3. Smooth Chicken Congee
Ingredients: chicken, rice, ginger slices, starch, egg white, vegetable shreds, spring onion, white pepper powder
Method: Marinate the chicken before cooking. Choose two chicken drumsticks, chop them into pieces, marinate them with ginger slices, starch, egg white, and salt. When the congee is cooked and the grains are separated, put the chicken pieces into the boiling congee, cook on high heat for 10 minutes, stirring constantly to prevent the congee from boiling over. After cooking, add some vegetable shreds, spring onion, and white pepper powder according to personal taste.
【People Who Should Avoid Chicken】
1. Chicken is warm in nature and can exacerbate conditions such as hyperactivity of liver yang, oral ulcers, skin abscesses, and constipation.
2. People with colds, internal heat, phlegm-dampness, obesity, furuncles due to heat toxins, hypertension, high blood lipids, cholecystitis, and cholelithiasis should avoid eating chicken.
3. Patients with atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and hyperlipidemia should avoid drinking chicken soup.
4. People with colds accompanied by headache, fatigue, and fever should avoid eating chicken and chicken soup.
5. It is not advisable to consume chicken while taking iron supplements.
6. The abundant protein in chicken can burden the kidneys, so people with kidney disease should eat less chicken, especially those with uremia, who should abstain from it.
Chicken is not only delicious but also rich in various nutrients, suitable for both adults and children.
