According to traditional Chinese medicine, red beans have low calories and are rich in vitamin E, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, selenium, and other active ingredients. They have multiple benefits such as clearing heat, detoxifying, invigorating the spleen and stomach, diuretic, reducing swelling, relieving irritability, and replenishing blood. Green beans have the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, relieving thirst, and cooling down. Red dates have the effects of tonifying the middle, benefiting qi, nourishing the spleen and stomach, and strengthening essence and willpower. When red beans, green beans, and red dates are combined to make porridge, it truly achieves a delicious and nutritious effect.
The experienced TCM practitioner also provided me with the ingredients and a simple method. He advised me to prepare 50 grams of red beans, 50 grams of green beans, 10 red dates, and 2 hawthorns. After washing the red beans and green beans, put them into a pressure cooker. Then wash the red dates, remove the pits, wash the hawthorns, remove the pits, and put them into the pressure cooker. Add 2000 milliliters of water and bring it to a boil. Close the pressure valve and cook for 15 minutes. After turning off the heat, wait for another 10 minutes before opening the cooker. The fragrant and delicious nutritious porridge is ready.
This porridge does not contain any rice; it is a truly pure and flavorful bean porridge. When eating, it has a soft and slightly sweet texture, with the aroma of bean paste filling the mouth, leaving a lingering aftertaste.
