What porridge should I cook for the sick?

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Porridge is a dish often recommended by doctors for sick people, because it is a delicious dish that is easy to digest and contains many essential nutrients. However, many people do not know what porridge to cook to quickly recover health? Here are a few delicious porridge recipes for the sick, you can read and refer to!

1. Why should sick people eat porridge?

For those who are sick or have just woken up, the body is definitely still quite weak, especially the functions of the digestive system have not fully recovered. Therefore, dishes prepared for patients should ensure 2 criteria: easy to digest and rich in nutrients to provide energy as well as raw materials for the body's regeneration and recovery process.
Judging by the above two criteria, porridge is the most suitable dish, fully satisfying the necessary factors for the health recovery process of the newly ill. Depending on the taste and preferences of the patient, you can choose from different porridge dishes such as: Onion porridge, chicken porridge, salmon porridge, perilla porridge, fish porridge,...

Những người mới ốm dậy thường khá yếu, chức năng tiêu hóa cũng chưa hồi phục nên cần bổ sung những món ăn dễ tiêu hóa và giàu dinh dưỡng
Những người mới ốm dậy thường khá yếu, chức năng tiêu hóa cũng chưa hồi phục nên cần bổ sung những món ăn dễ tiêu hóa và giàu dinh dưỡng

2. What porridge should be cooked for the sick?

2.1. Cooking onion porridge for sick people When choosing onion porridge as a menu to relieve colds for sick people, you can combine it with pork and chicken eggs for the purpose of adding more nutrition. In addition, depending on your preferences, you can choose to cook porridge with glutinous rice or plain rice.
Ingredients to be prepared:
Plain rice: 80g; Sticky rice: 50g; Pork: 250g; Chicken eggs: 1 egg; Dried onions: 2 bulbs; Green onions: 2-3 branches; Coriander: 50g; Spices: salt, fish sauce, pepper,... How to cook onion porridge:
First step, you bring prepared rice or glutinous rice, then cook porridge and cook on low heat. To make porridge faster, you can add cold water; Thoroughly clean the pork, then mince it and marinate the pork with spices for about 15-20 minutes; Put a little oil in the pan, fry the onions until fragrant, and at the same time pour in the marinated minced meat and stir-fry; Stir fried minced meat with onions in the porridge pot and mix well. When the porridge is cooked, crack the eggs into the bowl and then pour the boiling porridge into it and stir until the eggs are cooked. At this point, you just need to sprinkle some green onions and coriander (if you like) and you can immediately enjoy the hot onion porridge. 2.2. Cooking chicken porridge for sick people Besides onion porridge, chicken porridge is also one of the very popular porridge that many people choose to cook for sick people. To save time cooking porridge, you should choose fresh and pre-cooked chicken.

Cháo gà là một trong những món cháo phù hợp với người ốm hoắc mới ốm dậy
Cháo gà là một trong những món cháo phù hợp với người ốm hoắc mới ốm dậy
Ingredients to prepare:
Rice: 200g; Chicken: 1 chicken; Dried onions: 2 bulbs; Onion: 1 bulb; Green onions: 2-3 branches; Ginger: 1 large branch; Carrot: 1/2 tuber; Seasoning: fish sauce, salt, pepper... How to cook chicken porridge:
Wash chicken, rub salt to reduce fishy smell; Pre-wash the rice and soak it in water for about 2-3 hours to save time to cook porridge; To make the chicken porridge more delicious, put the rice in the pan to roast, until the rice is fragrant, you can turn off the stove; Add water, rice and washed chicken to the pot, cook over medium heat for about 1 hour. To avoid spilling when boiling, you should open the pot lid slightly; While waiting for the porridge to cook, start preparing the other ingredients: slicing green onions, dicing onions and carrots, sautéing dried onions, smashing ginger; You check that the rice has bloomed and the chicken is soft, the next step is to add the ingredients you have just prepared and seasoning to cook for about 15-20 minutes; Ladle the porridge into a bowl and sprinkle with fried onions and green onions to make the porridge look more attractive, now you have a delicious bowl of chicken porridge. 2.3. Cooking perilla porridge for sick people Ingredients to prepare:
Rice: 200g; Perilla leaves: 100g; Beef: 100g; Chicken eggs: 1 yolk; Green onions: 100g; Seasoning: fish sauce, salt, pepper...; How to cook perilla porridge:
Wash the rice and then soak it until the rice is soft; Depending on your preference to eat thin or thick porridge, you need to pour the right amount of water into the pot, cook the rice with medium heat; While waiting for the porridge to bloom, prepare the other ingredients: finely mince the beef, chop the perilla leaves, and chop the scallions. When the rice has expanded into porridge, you add minced beef and stir well; Season to taste the porridge just eaten, stir well and turn off the stove; To cook the beaten eggs in a bowl, pour the porridge while the porridge is still boiling. Then sprinkle more perilla, scallions on top for a beautiful look. Mix it up and eat it while it's still hot to ensure its benefits and taste!

Cháo tía tô là món ăn giàu dinh dưỡng, giúp người ốm mau chóng hồi phục sức khỏe
Cháo tía tô là món ăn giàu dinh dưỡng, giúp người ốm mau chóng hồi phục sức khỏe
2.4. Shrimp porridge with spinach is a delicious dish with a sweet taste that is easy to eat, suitable for people who have a pale mouth and no appetite.
Ingredients to prepare:
Rice: 1⁄2 cups; Peeled shrimp: 100g; Spinach: 1 bunch; Spices: fish sauce, salt, pepper,... How to cook shrimp and vegetable porridge:
The first step is to wash the rice and boil it into porridge. Wash well then peel, remove the black thread and mince the shrimp meat and then marinate it with spices. As for the coriander, just wash and finely chop it; While waiting for the porridge to cook, bring the dried onion to fry and then pour the seasoned shrimp into the island, you see when the shrimp meat is hunted and turns pink, then turn off the stove; Bring the fried shrimp and hot vegetables into the pot of boiling porridge, simmer on medium heat until the rice swells into porridge, the shrimp meat is soft; In the last step, re-season the seasoning to suit the patient's taste and scoop it out into a bowl to enjoy.

3. A few things to pay attention to when cooking porridge for sick people

When cooking porridge for sick people, you should pay attention to the following:
To make porridge faster, before simmering, you can pre-roast the rice and then put the golden roasted rice in a pressure cooker, brewing pot or porridge pot. to stay overnight. Patients should eat porridge while it is still hot to ensure the effectiveness of cold relief as well as the taste of porridge. When cooking porridge for sick people, you should add spices such as onions, ginger, cilantro,... Hopefully with the recipes shared above, you already know what to choose to cook porridge for sick people. All are very simple, quick and nutritious recipes to help patients recover quickly.

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