Can drinking it help you lose weight? Read this and you'll understand
Congee is extremely low in calories and contains a lot of water. Drinking congee not only helps lighten the burden on the stomach and intestines and promotes digestion and absorption, but most importantly, it helps with slimming! So what kind of congee can help you lose weight? Let's take a look at these few delicious and nutritious weight-loss congee recipes below.
Three-Millet Red Adzuki Bean Congee
Ingredients: 30 g each of fragrant rice and coix seed (Job's tears), 50 g glutinous rice, 15 g red adzuki beans.
Method:
1. Soak the red adzuki beans in clean water for 2 hours, soak the coix seed in water for a moment, wash the fragrant rice and glutinous rice separately, and fill a pot with water.
2. After bringing to a boil over high heat, add the fragrant rice, glutinous rice, red adzuki beans and coix seed, and simmer the congee over low heat for 25 minutes. When the beans are soft and the congee is fragrant, stir the congee evenly and it is ready.
Tasting notes: This dish can clear heat and promote diuresis, strengthen the spleen and remove dampness, and help with weight loss and lowering blood lipids. It can not only be used for weight loss and preventing weight gain, but also lower blood lipids and whiten the skin. It is also highly beneficial for helping people weakened by long illness recover their health. It should be noted that people with dry body fluids and blood, or who urinate frequently, should eat less of it; those with spleen deficiency and no dampness, those with dry stools, and pregnant women should use it with caution.
Ingredients: 100 g winter melon, 30 g lean pork, 60 g japonica rice. Appropriate amounts of water starch, chopped scallions and salt.
Method:
1. Wash the pork and mince it, add salt and water starch and stir evenly; wash the winter melon, peel and slice it; wash the japonica rice clean, and fill a pot with water.
2. After bringing to a boil, add the japonica rice and simmer the congee over low heat for 20 minutes, then add the minced pork and winter melon slices, and simmer the congee over low heat for another 10 minutes.
Tasting notes: This dish has the effects of nourishing the stomach and promoting fluid production, and clearing stomach heat and reducing internal heat. Eating it over time can not only help with weight loss and slimming, but also keep the skin white as jade, moist and smooth, and keep the figure fit.
Ingredients: 50 g each of potato and japonica rice, several goji berries. Appropriate amount of white sugar.
Method:
1. Peel the potato and cut it into pieces, wash the goji berries, wash the japonica rice clean, and fill a pot with water.
2. After bringing to a boil over high heat, add the japonica rice and potato pieces, and simmer the congee over low heat for 25 minutes. Add the goji berries and continue simmering the congee over low heat for 5 minutes. When the rice is soft and the congee is fragrant, add white sugar, mix evenly and it is ready to eat.
Tasting notes: This dish has the effects of strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the stomach, and promoting bowel movements. Eating potato congee can enhance a person's sense of fullness while reducing the intake of a large amount of food, making it suitable for people who are slimming.