Boiled rice cake with red beans and barley--it’s almost Chinese New Year, and children especially love to drink it

Overview

Red beans: Red beans are low in calories and rich in vitamin E and active ingredients such as potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, and selenium. They are a typical high-potassium food. They have many functions such as clearing heat and detoxifying, strengthening the spleen and stomach, diuresis and reducing swelling, ventilating and relieving troubles, enriching blood and producing milk. They have good effects in treating enteritis, dysentery, diarrhea, and sores, carbuncles, and boils. Barley: Barley has high nutritional value and is known as the king of the world's grasses. It is called the grass of life and health. In Japan, it has recently been listed as an anti-cancer food, so its value has doubled. It is cool in nature, sweet and light in taste, enters the spleen, lung, and kidney meridian, and has the effects of diuresis, strengthening the spleen, removing paralysis, clearing away heat and draining pus.

Tags

• porridge
• soup
• barley
• korean rice cake
• red beans
• rock sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare the above ingredients and seasonings.

   

2. 2 Bring the water in the pot off the heat to a boil and add red beans, barley, rice cakes, and rock sugar.

   

3. 3 After boiling, lift the inner pot of the simmering pot from the heat and place it into the outer pot of the simmering pot.

   

4. 4 Look, the food inside the inner pot is still boiling after being placed in the outer pot. It can keep boiling for 30 minutes and keep warm for 8 hours.

   

5. 5 Cover the outer pot lid and let it cook on its own.

   

6. 6 It will be ready to eat after 40 minutes.

   

7. 7 I cooked a pot and it was eaten by the children in a short time

   

8. 8 If you don’t have Korean rice cakes, you can use small glutinous rice balls or yuanxiao instead.