In winter, many people dread the cold. Besides warming soups for the stomach, you can also enjoy steaming hot fruit soups during the chilly season. Fruit soups not only replenish fluids but also provide rich nutrients! They're also gentle on the stomach. So, which fruit soups are perfect for winter?Below are several nutritious and delicious winter fruit porridges to recommend...
Watermelon Porridge
Ingredients: 500g watermelon, 500g tapioca pearls, 10g dried tangerine peel, 50g rock sugar.
Method:
1. Remove seeds from watermelon and cut into chunks. Soak tapioca pearls until plump. Slice dried tangerine peel into thin strips.
2. Place the seedless watermelon flesh, rock sugar, and dried tangerine peel into a pot and bring to a boil.
3. Add the soaked and expanded sago pearls and cook until done.
Benefits: Clears heat and summer heat, relieves irritability and quenches thirst, alleviates hangovers, and lowers blood pressure.
Prickly Pear Porridge
Ingredients: 10 prickly pears, 100g japonica rice, rock sugar to taste.
Method:
1. Mash prickly pears thoroughly, then strain out pulp (or boil to extract juice). Reserve juice.
2. Add washed rice and rock sugar to prickly pear juice. Simmer into porridge.
Benefits: Clears heat, detoxifies, aids digestion, and harmonizes the stomach.
Banana Porridge
Ingredients: 3 bananas, 100g glutinous rice, rock sugar to taste.
Method:
1. Peel bananas and dice into small cubes.
2. Bring rice to a boil in a pot of water, add peeled banana cubes and rock sugar, then simmer into porridge.
Benefits: Clears heat, moistens the intestines, harmonizes the stomach, and strengthens the spleen.
Tomato Porridge
Ingredients: 250g tomatoes, 100g tapioca pearls, 150g white sugar, a small amount of rose jam.
Method:
Place sugar, peeled diced tomatoes, and sago pearls (pre-soaked in water until plump) into boiling water. Add rose jam before serving.
Benefits: Clears heat, detoxifies, cools blood, and calms liver.
Mango Porridge
Rinse glutinous rice thoroughly, boil in water for 30 minutes. Add peeled, pitted mango chunks and rock sugar, simmer for 5 more minutes until sweet, soft, and sticky. Nourishes stomach fluids, relieves cough, promotes urination, and expels phlegm.
Fresh Lychee Porridge
Rinse fresh lychees, glutinous rice, and rock sugar. Boil glutinous rice in water for 30 minutes. Add peeled, pitted, and chopped lychees along with rock sugar. Continue boiling for 10 minutes.
This porridge nourishes the liver and kidneys, boosts energy, and harmonizes the stomach.
Milky Fruit Porridge
Ingredients
50g japonica rice, 50g millet, 50g red beans, 50g red dates, 50g lotus seeds, 1 apple, 2 bananas, 200g milk, 400g+ water, sugar to taste
Method
1.First, wash the red dates in warm water; rinse the japonica rice, millet, red beans, and lotus seeds.
2. Place the red dates, japonica rice, millet, red beans, and lotus seeds in a clean pot. Pour in the milk, add sufficient water, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to medium heat and simmer into porridge.
3.Wash the apple, peel it, remove the core, and cut into small cubes. Wash the banana, peel it, and cut into small pieces.
4. Add the fruit pieces and white sugar to the cooked porridge. Stir well until combined. Bring to a rolling boil once more, then remove from heat.
Modern health education teaches us to regularly consume vegetables and fruits. Fruits, in particular, are not only nutrient-rich and delicious but also offer benefits like skin beautification.However, during the cold winter months, eating raw, chilled fruit often seems to upset the stomach. Readers with weaker digestive systems may find themselves torn between loving and hating it. Thus, "cooked fruit" emerged as a solution.
Hawthorn Porridge
Take 10 fresh hawthorn fruits, wash them, and cut them open to remove the seeds.Separately, take 500 grams of japonica rice and place it with the hawthorn in a pressure cooker. Add an appropriate amount of boiling water, cover, and heat for about 20 minutes. Allow to cool naturally before opening the lid to serve. It should be consumed promptly and not stored for long periods.
Using a pressure cooker maintains an oxygen-free environment, preserving the hawthorn's beneficial components to the greatest extent possible.
Loquat Porridge
Ingredients: 6 loquats, 50g tapioca pearls, sugar and water as needed.
Method:
1. Wash loquats; soak tapioca pearls until plump.
2. Add loquats, tapioca pearls, and sugar to water. Simmer into porridge until ready to serve.
Benefits: Moistens lungs, quenches thirst, relieves coughing, and eases chest congestion.
Cherry and Tangerine Porridge
Rinse glutinous rice (or regular rice) thoroughly and add sufficient water.Remove stems from cherries and dice into small pieces. Peel tangerines, remove seeds, and cut each segment into three small pieces. When porridge boils and thickens, add cherry and tangerine pieces. Stir in osmanthus flowers and rock sugar until well combined.Add 400ml water and simmer into a thin porridge. Alternatively, use dried tangerine peel (either raw or stir-fried with bran). Tangerine peel contains volatile oils, primarily composed of limonene, citral, along with chenpi ketone, hesperidin, inositol, and vitamin B1.It exerts a mild stimulating effect on the digestive tract, aiding in the expulsion of intestinal gas. It promotes gastric juice secretion and dilates bronchi. Tangerine peel porridge possesses qi-regulating and phlegm-resolving properties, enhancing its stomach-strengthening and nourishing effects. It may also help lower blood lipids, raise blood pressure, or treat acute mastitis.