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What are the methods for making pork congee?
Pork congee is a home-style congee made with pork. In fact, drinking congee is quite beneficial for health care, easy to digest, and pork has good effects of nourishing yin and water, moistening the skin. It can also help us supplement the vitamins and various trace elements needed by the human body.
Basic Materials
One hundred grams of lean pork and glutinous rice, 1500 grams of pork soup, a little white scallion, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, and cooking wine.
Rinse the rice clean, put it in water, pour in sesame oil and stir well, then set aside for 30 minutes. Peel the ginger and cut it into thin strips, and chop the scallions. Cut the preserved egg into small pieces.
First, cut the meat into slices, then into strips, and finally into small particles. Put them in a bowl, add 1/4 teaspoon (1 gram) of salt, stir well, and marinate for 20 minutes.
Pour water into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then add the meat particles and cook for a while. When there are foam on the surface of the water, use a spoon to remove it completely. Then add half of the preserved egg pieces and pour in the sliced ginger. Cook for about 2 minutes, then add the soaked rice and change to low heat for 40 minutes. Stir in the same direction every 5 minutes with a spoon to prevent the preserved egg from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
Finally, pour in the remaining half of the preserved egg and continue to boil for 10 minutes. Add the remaining salt and chopped scallions before drinking.
Nutritional Value
Pork has a sweet and salty taste, with a neutral nature, and has the effects of nourishing yin and blood, and moistening the skin. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as heat disease causing injury to fluid, diabetes with emaciation, dry cough, constipation, and so on. Pork is rich in various nutrients such as B vitamins, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, and can also provide heme iron and promote the absorption of hemoglobin, which can improve iron deficiency anemia. Rice is rich in protein and starch, and when added with scallions and ginger, it becomes even more nutritious.