Health care should start from daily life. Here are two warming and nourishing food therapies that I often eat. They are super simple to make and I encourage everyone to try them.
【Healthy porridge】
I often recommend that everyone eat more health-preserving porridge, especially for breakfast, which is much better for our spleen and stomach than ordinary bread, salad, oatmeal, etc.! Let’s try making this health-preserving porridge that warms the stomach and replenishes qi and blood.
Ingredients (for 1 person):
1 tablespoon millet
2 slices of ginger
0.5 tablespoon red beans
1 piece of longan
1 red date
*If you like, you can add yam, sweet potato or pumpkin, etc.
practice:
A daily health drink, suitable for drinking every morning or after lunch, it can dispel cold and maintain health, and can be reduced in amount during the autumn heat.
Ingredients (for 1 person):
5-6 small pieces of dried ginger
300-400 ml water (about one thermos kettle)
Brown sugar or black sugar
* If you feel unwell due to a cold, you can add ginger
practice:
One cup a day is enough, don't drink it all day long. Drink less in dry weather.
【Black bean tea】
Black beans are rich in protein, which can improve spleen deficiency and edema, and have the effects of blackening hair, improving eyesight, improving edema, back pain, and coldness in the lower body.
Ingredients (for 1 person):
1 tablespoon black beans
500 ml water
practice:
- Fry the black beans in a frying pan over medium heat for about 10 minutes until the skin of the black beans cracks and then serve. You can fry a large amount at one time and store them in a bag after they cool down.
- Put an appropriate amount of fried black beans into 500ml of water and cook over medium-low heat for about 20 to 30 minutes.
- Drink 1 to 2 times a week.
【Miso soup with ginger and scallion】
Spices such as ginger, onion, and garlic have the effect of nourishing, strengthening, and eliminating fatigue. Miso is also a yang food that warms the body.
Ingredients (for 1 person): 3-4 slices of old ginger, you can grind it into ginger paste if you like
1 tablespoon chopped green onion
1 tablespoon miso
Mixed Mushrooms
Water 500ml
practice:
- Add ginger to the pot and cook for 5 minutes.
- Add all other ingredients into the pot and cook for another 5 minutes.
*You can also add garlic if you like
【Sesame Oil Chicken and Ginger Rice】
Super delicious rice, warming and nutritious, all in one pot for healthy eating!
Ingredients (2 servings): 1-2 chicken thighs
1 shiitake mushroom (soak and slice, keep the soaking water)
6 slices of old ginger
1 tablespoon black sesame oil
1 tablespoon soy sauce
0.5-1 tablespoon rice wine
1 cup rice
- Fry the chicken in dark sesame oil
- Fry ginger slices on the side
- Add mushrooms, soy sauce and rice wine into the pan and stir-fry until fragrant
- Add all the ingredients and mushroom water to rice, then add appropriate amount of water and cook in a rice cooker.
Other warming diet tips:
1. The first meal in the morning is very important. You should eat warm food for breakfast to raise your body temperature. Ginger porridge, hot soup noodles, etc. are good choices.
2. Do not eat after dinner to allow your internal organs to rest and detoxify.
3. Eat less raw and cold foods such as fruits, salads, cold drinks and frozen ice cream desserts.
4. Eat more warming foods, such as ginger, red beans, brown sugar, black sugar, black sesame, etc.