Monday, April 19, 2010

Nutritious Porridge

Ever wonder how many types of grains are there in the world? Take a look at this site (http://www.foodsubs.com/Rice.html), you will be amazed by the varieties of rice available besides the usual white grain rice we consume everyday! In fact polished white rice is not as nutritious compare to brown rice and other whole grains as most fibre & minerals have been striped. Therefore to make plain porridge more nutritious, I've added other grains like Buckwheat (荞麦), Millet (小米) and Quinoa (pronounced as Keen-Wah). Luckily my boy is not a fussy eater, he finishes all the porridges I've prepared for him :)

Buckwheat Porridge (荞麦粥)
Ingredient

  • 1/3 cup buckwheat
  • 1/4 cup rice
  • 4 cups ikan bilis stock (can use chicken stock or just water)
Method
  1. Rinse buckwheat & soak in water for 2hrs.
  2. Wash rice and combine buckwheat in a pot with 3 cups stock. Bring to boil.
  3. Simmer for 20 mins. Add some more stock if the porridge is too thick.

Nutritious Value & Recipe on Buckwheat:
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=11

http://www.foodnetwork.com/topics/buckwheat/index.html

Quinoa Porridge
Ingredient

  • 1/3 cup Quinoa (keen-wah)
  • 1/3 cup rice
  • 5 cups stock
Method
  1. Rinse quinoa & rice over a sieve and place in a pot. Add stock and bring to boil.
  2. Simmer for 15-20mins until cooked.
More recipes on Quinoa :
http://www.quinoa-recipes.com/Quinoa_Pages/What_Is_Quinoa.html
http://ecuadorexplorer.blogspot.com/2008/12/quinoa-grain-of-andes.html
http://southamericanfood.about.com/od/glossaryofterms/g/quinoanew.htm


Millet Porridge (小米粥)
Ingredient
  • 1/4 cup millet
  • 1/4 cup rice
  • 5 cups water
Method
  1. Rinse millet & rice over a sieve.
  2. Place rice in pot of water and bring to boil. Cook on medium heat for 15-20mins.
Nutritious Value & Recipe on Millet:
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=53

http://www.milletrecipes.com/
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,millet,FF.html


Brown Rice Pork Ribs Porridge (排骨糙米粥)
Ingredient

  • 1/2 cup brown rice
  • 250gm pork ribs
  • 5 large seedless red dates
  • 1500ml cups water
  • salt to taste
Method
  1. Rinse brown rice thoroughly and soak in water for 2 hrs.
  2. Blanch pork ribs in boiling water.
  3. Place water, pork ribs and red dates in a pot. Bring to boil. Lower heat and simmer for 1 hr. Add brown rice and simmer for 45mins-1hr till rice is softened. Add salt to taste.

4 comments:

lishapisa said...

How adventurous! I love congee and your post just inspired me to go wild! ....thinking of making soupy rice with quinoa , barley, pork rib and gingko nuts! I also added you on our favorites! Very Healthy & Thank you!

Peng said...

lishapisa...u are most welcome!

Peng said...

LK...u can get them from local organic shops

LK said...

thanks, Peng! I'll try to check them out. Not many organic shops in Singapore though.

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