​Boil barley and add sugar

In life, there are many young friends who are accustomed to adding some sugar when eating porridge, because adding sugar can make the porridge more delicious and also cover up the unpleasant taste in the porridge. It is okay to add sugar when cooking coix seed, but it is best to put rock sugar. If you need to add white sugar, put it separately after serving.

1 Can sugar be added to the barley and red bean soup? You can add some rock sugar to the red bean and barley soup to adjust the taste. Among all kinds of sugar, only rock sugar is cool in nature and can clear the heart fire. Most people are accustomed to adding sugar when drinking red bean soup, but if you want to effectively reduce swelling or lose weight, sugar-free red bean soup is more suitable. This is because red beans themselves contain calories. If the high calories of sugar are added, the original meaning of eating red beans to lose weight may be lost. In addition, eating too much sweets can easily cause a feeling of fullness and discomfort, which may aggravate the discomfort for people with weak spleen and stomach. If you find sugar-free red bean soup difficult to swallow, you might try adding red dates to the soup. Red dates have a natural sweetness, which makes the sugar-free red bean and barley soup easier to drink. Red dates are also rich in calcium and iron. When combined with red beans and barley, they can help women replenish blood and improve the body's ability to withstand cold.

Tips: It is generally not recommended to add anything other than these two medicines to red bean and barley porridge. It is best not to add rice and brown sugar, because the rice for making porridge is the fruit of rice, and rice requires a lot of water to grow, and it is itself a damp product. The sweet and greasy brown sugar can easily affect the spleen and stomach function, leading to spleen deficiency, and then aggravating dampness. Therefore, it is not recommended to add rice and brown sugar when cooking barley and red beans.

2. Red bean and barley soup recipe: 30g barley, 30g red beans, appropriate amount of water

1. Wash and soak 30g each of coix seed and red bean for a while.

2. Pour the soaked coix seeds, beans and rice soaking water into the pressure cooker, and add some water.

3. Cook over high heat until it starts to steam, then reduce the heat to low and cook for another 15 minutes.

4. This is the cooked barley and red bean soup. 5. It can be drunk as tea.

3 Other medicinal combinations of barley and red bean soup 1. Barley and red bean soup + longan People who are worried and overworked and have little exercise often have pale faces, lack of energy, and even palpitations, drowsiness, a heavy feeling in the head, and emptiness in the heart. This is a sign of dampness in the body and insufficient heart qi. You can add some longan to the barley and red bean soup and cook it together.

2. Barley and red bean soup + lily and lotus seeds. Young people are prone to irritability, insomnia, or rashes and pimples on their faces. These are caused by excessive heart fire and internal disturbance of damp heat. You can add lily or lotus seeds to the barley and red bean soup and cook together, or add both.

3. Barley and red bean soup + ginger: If you catch a cold, or have cold in your body, cold pain in your stomach, and poor appetite, you can add a few slices of ginger to the barley and red bean soup. Ginger is warm in nature and can warm the body and dispel cold, strengthen the spleen and stomach.

4. Red bean soup + jujube (red dates) When women are taking care of themselves after childbirth, they must remove the coix seed when drinking red bean soup, but they can add some jujube to it. Jujube can warm the middle, strengthen the spleen, and nourish the blood, which is very suitable for conditioning women after childbirth.