People often call red beans ‘thinking beans’, which is a food with high nutritional value. Red beans contain a variety of chemical components beneficial to human health. In daily life, people often cook red bean porridge to eat, such as mung bean and red bean porridge, which is a very nutritious dish. Let’s learn several methods of making this delicious food.

Ingredients:

Mung bean seeds, red beans, jujube, and longan meat

Steps:

1. Soak mung beans and red beans clean in advance (about twelve hours).

2. Put the soaked mung beans and red beans in the pot and bring to a boil with high heat.

3. Wash the jujube and longan meat clean and set aside.

4. After the soup boils, add jujube and longan meat.

5. Simmer over low to medium heat until the red beans are slightly bloomed and soft, and then it is ready to eat.

Tip:

Generally, mung bean and red bean porridge is used for removing dampness, whitening, and invigorating the spleen. In addition to drinking it as porridge, it can also be made into mung bean tea. Common mung bean tea ingredients include: mung bean seeds, red beans, lophatherum, euryale ferox, polygonum aviculare, green tea, and sophora. Having a cup of it during leisure time is more beneficial for removing dampness, whitening, and invigorating the spleen.

1. Soak mung beans and red beans in warm water for half a day;

2. Wrap the herba epimedii in cheesecloth;

3. Soak the jujube with the seeds removed;

4. Put mung beans, red beans, herba epimedii, and jujube in the pot together;

5. Boil the water into a thin porridge, and then sprinkle with sugar for seasoning.

1. Prepare an equal amount of red beans and mung beans for red bean and mung bean porridge, wash them clean, and soak the red beans for about two to three hours, while the mung beans only need to be soaked for an hour.

2. Then you need to cook the red beans first, as they take longer to cook. After boiling, add some cold water, then boil again, and add cold water again. This makes the red beans bloom easily, become tender easily, and is said to be more fragrant.

3. After the red beans have bloomed, add mung beans, bring to a boil with high heat, then reduce the heat to simmer until they are soft, and then add rock sugar for seasoning.

Ingredients:

Appropriate amount of red beans, mung beans, and rock sugar

Steps:

1. Soak an appropriate amount of mung beans and red beans in warm water for 20 minutes;

2. Put the soaked mung beans and red beans into the pot, first boil the water with high heat, then reduce the heat to simmer;

3. Put in rock sugar 20 minutes before it is cooked, and turn off the fire after the rock sugar melts.