Porridge and it's 4 benefits

Source of information : Newspaper

Being a hokkien dialect group, we have porridge as lunch almost every meal. Slightly difference from Cantonese version, Hokkien porridge contains more liquid and not cooked as thick and as soft. We prefer our porridge to be grainy and some mothers like to add sweet potatoes during cooking too.

Some benefit of porridge :

1. Easy to digest


2. Great for those who suffer from stomach upset, the liquid in the porridge helps to replenish some of the water lose.


3. A bowl of hot porridge in cold weather as breakfast is said to be helping the body to combat coldness. (hmmm, quite true as we always find hot soya bean served in mountainess area during our travelling as breakfast)

Hokkien believe that the porridge water helps to "cool" down heaty body too.

Porridge calories : Calories: 150 Protein: 8.4 g Carbs: 23.3 g Fat: 2.6 g Fiber: 1.8 g Serving: 8.0000 fl oz

Very fast porridge cooking method :

• Porridge need to be cooked in low fire or else it will simmer over the pot and spill out.


• A simple method of cooking porridge constantly at high fire without spills out is to add a method spoon in the pot during cooking. The metal spoon will break the energy flow created during cooking and stop the over-simmer problem. You can cut down cooking time by 50% at least using this method.

Some variety of porridge cooking :

1. With seafood


2. With meat


3. With oats


4. With 5 grains (good for its high fibre)


5. With eggs


6. With milk


7. etc etc etc