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According to folk experience from ancient times, while pregnant, women should eat carp porridge. Because this dish is quite benign, it brings many health benefits such as helping to clear milk, cure cough and good effect for pregnant mothers. So how should pregnant women use carp porridge to get the best effect?
1. Benefits of carp for pregnant women
Carp is ranked as the top ingredient in the list of foods with health benefits for mothers during pregnancy. The nutritional composition in carp is not only good for the mother's health, but also helps the baby's brain development.
Carp contains about 22.9 grams of protein, 84 mg of cholesterol, glutamic acid, glycerine, fat, arginine, omega-3 and vitamins. All nutrients in carp are necessary and important for mother and baby.
Cháo cá chép mang lại đầy đủ dưỡng chất cho mẹ và bé
The ancients believed that carp porridge for pregnant women could help the baby to be born with white skin, red lips, and intelligence. Carp is also known as a folk medicine to help diuretic, relieve swelling, treat cough for children, and clear milk for nursing mothers. Moreover, carp porridge can be used to treat liver and kidney related diseases. Therefore, eating carp porridge is very good for mothers and enhances the development of babies from the time they are in the womb.
In order for dishes made from fish to maximize their effects, pregnant women also need to pay attention when choosing fish. Because, at this time, pregnant mothers and babies are quite sensitive to disease factors, viruses, bacteria... Therefore, mothers should carefully consider the source of fish before choosing to process it as a dish. .
2. When should pregnant women eat carp porridge?
Most pregnant mothers wonder how to use carp porridge to promote most of the nutritional benefits of carp porridge. Accordingly, the best time to help mothers use carp porridge is in the first trimester. At that time, the baby is in the stage of forming structures and organs, so the use of carp porridge will help children absorb many good nutrients to help the development process better. In particular, when using carp porridge, pregnant women should eat breakfast. Because, after a long night of sleeping, the mother's stomach has digested all the nutrients that the body needs. And when waking up, enjoying breakfast with a nutritious bowl of carp porridge will help the mother recharge and nourish the fetus.
In addition, pregnant women can also eat carp porridge between two main meals. Using carp porridge between morning and afternoon with a small bowl of porridge will help replenish the mother's energy after work. Besides, before going to bed is also considered as a reasonable time to enjoy a bowl of nutritious carp porridge to prepare for a good and quality sleep. The nutrients in carp porridge will be fully absorbed when the mother falls asleep.
Pregnant women can use carp porridge about 1 to 2 meals a day. And pregnant mothers can change the cooking method as well as choose alternative foods to help the dish always have an attractive and delicious taste.
3. How to prepare carp porridge for pregnant women
To make the carp porridge menu rich and attractive, pregnant mothers can apply the following ways to cook carp porridge to easily prepare delicious carp porridge3.1. Carp porridge cooked with green beans
To have a delicious and attractive porridge for pregnant women, pregnant mothers need to prepare ingredients such as: carp, peeled green beans, glutinous rice, plain rice, minced onion and garlic, ginger, dill, assorted seeds such as pepper, monosodium glutamate, seasoning, sugar, salt, cooking oil...
Make carp porridge with green beans: first, put a pot of water on the stove with a few slices of sliced ginger to reduce fishy smell for fish. Wait for the water to boil, add the carp to boil with a little dill to create aroma. Cover and cook fish until cooked through. Remove the fish and separate the fish from the bones. After that, wash the rice and beans thoroughly, then pour water into the porridge to cook, depending on your preferences to adjust the amount of water needed. Mom can use the fish broth to cook porridge. Cook the porridge for about 1 to 1.5 hours so that the rice and beans are simmered. Then, add half a coffee of salt, seasoning, fish sauce, cooking oil to create a rich taste. The meat is marinated with a little salt, pepper, and fish sauce. After marinating for about 10 minutes, the seasoning can be absorbed into the fish, put the pan on the stove to fry the onions and garlic with the marinated fish meat. Stir the fish well to mix the seasonings. Then mix the fish with cooked porridge along with green onions and dill to have delicious carp porridge cooked with green beans, rich in flavor.
3.2. Carp porridge cooked with red beans
To have a delicious and attractive carp porridge combined with red beans, you need to prepare ingredients such as: carp, red beans, glutinous rice, red apple, bare skin, minced onion, garlic, ginger, dill. is, nuts such as pepper, monosodium glutamate, seasoning, sugar, salt, cooking oil...
Cháo cá chép kết hợp với đậu đỏ giúp tăng vị ngọt và thơm
Make carp porridge with red beans: first, put a pot of water on the stove with a few slices of sliced ginger to eliminate the fishy smell of the fish. Wait for the water to boil, add the carp to boil with a little dill to create aroma. Cover and cook fish until cooked through. Remove the fish and separate the fish from the bones. After that, wash the rice and red beans thoroughly and pour the water into the porridge to cook with water at the rate of 2 liters of filtered water, equivalent to 100 grams of sticky rice. And red apples, red beans and red beans are stewed with fish broth. The meat is marinated with a little salt, pepper, and fish sauce. After marinating for about 10 minutes, the seasoning can be absorbed into the fish. After mixing fish with cooked porridge with green onions, dill to have delicious carp porridge cooked with beans, rich in flavor.
3.3. Carp porridge cooked with mushrooms
Ingredients for this dish include: carp, mushroom, glutinous rice, plain rice, turmeric, minced onion and garlic, ginger, cumin, nuts such as pepper, monosodium glutamate, seasoning, sugar, salt, cooking oil...
Fish you can prepare as above steps. For straw mushrooms, cut the head, wash it well and cut it in half for easy eating. After that, wash the rice, red beans thoroughly and pour water into the porridge to cook soft. The meat, when filtered, marinated with a little salt, pepper, and fish sauce, after marinating for about 10 minutes, so that the seasoning can penetrate the fish evenly. Stir-fry briefly the pounded rice, then pour mushrooms, turmeric and fish meat into the porridge, adding spices to suit your taste.
There are many different ways to cook carp. Therefore, pregnant women can apply and change the method to avoid boring dishes and take advantage of the nutritional value and benefits of fish.
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