Can mung beans be cooked in a stainless steel pot?

Mung beans can be cooked in stainless steel, but you must be careful that they cannot be cooked in an iron pot. This is because tannin iron will be produced if cooked in an iron pot, and the mung bean soup will turn black. Stainless steel will not react with mung beans, so you can safely use a stainless steel pot to cook mung bean soup. Drinking some mung bean porridge on a regular basis is good for your health, especially in summer.

Nutritional value of mung bean porridge

1.Mung beans are sweet and cool in nature. Enters the heart, liver and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving summer heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, moistening the throat and quenching thirst, improving eyesight, clearing the gallbladder and nourishing the stomach. It has a certain therapeutic effect on mouth and tongue ulcers, sores, carbuncles, cholera vomiting and diarrhea, phlegm-heat asthma, rubella erysipelas, drug and food poisoning. Modern medicine believes that mung beans can lower blood lipids and cholesterol, and have obvious detoxification and liver protection effects. Long-term consumption can help lose weight, beautify the skin, enhance cell activity, promote metabolism, and lower blood pressure, thereby preventing the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. However, people with weak spleen and stomach and diarrhea should eat it with caution.

2. Rice is mild in nature and sweet in taste. It has the functions of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, treating diarrhea and dysentery, and relieving poor appetite, irritability and thirst, and relieving dysentery. Rice is rich in nutrients, most of which are found in the husk. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat too much refined grains on a normal basis, so as to avoid reducing the intake of inorganic salts and vitamins due to the loss of the husk. In addition, although porridge and rice are nourishing foods, they should not be consumed in excess.

3. The refreshing taste of this porridge is suitable for patients with poor appetite or the elderly.

Preparation method:

Clean the porridge pot, add about 1600 grams of water, and bring to a boil. Pour 100 grams each of washed rice and mung beans into the pot and bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat for about 40 minutes (about 30 minutes in a pressure cooker).

It should be noted that although mung bean porridge has good effects, don’t think that adding any nutritious substances to it will make the effects more powerful. Because mung beans are incompatible with certain foods, such as carp and dog meat or ginkgo shells, eating them together can easily cause physical discomfort. When cooking mung bean porridge, you can add some berberine, honeysuckle, etc., which can play an auxiliary role and have a better detoxification effect.