Introduction: As is well known, beans come in many varieties and are rich in nutrition. Regular consumption of bean products is highly beneficial to our bodies. Traditional Chinese medicine also has a similar concept, known as "the five colors correspond to the five internal organs." This means red foods nourish the heart, yellow foods nourish the spleen, green foods nourish the liver, white foods nourish the lungs, and black foods nourish the kidneys. You see, beans themselves come in all sorts of colors. Doesn't that mean eating beans of different colors can nourish your five internal organs? However, most people treat soy milk as a beverage. In fact, soy milk is also an excellent cooking ingredient when added to other foods!
New Ways to Enjoy Soy Milk: Pair with Food for Better Nutrition
Soy Milk Congee
If you can cook rice with soy milk, you can certainly cook congee. Take your leftover rice that you don't know what to do with, add an equal amount of water to cook it into a thick congee, then add an equal amount of soy milk and continue cooking for a few minutes, and you're done. If you don't want to waste the soy pulp, you can add it in as well. This congee has the fresh aroma of soy milk and the gentle texture of rice congee. It's great for breakfast or as a late-night snack!
Soy Milk Steamed Rice
Make soy milk from soybeans, strain out the pulp, and use the soy milk instead of plain water in a rice cooker to cook the rice. The result is a fragrant and tasty rice that fully utilizes the nutritional complementarity between beans and rice. This rice is refreshing, nourishing, and healthy, perfect for summer.
Soy Milk Soft Pancakes
Add soft soy pulp to a flour batter, crack in an egg, and spread it on a flat pan. Add some chopped green onions as a garnish to make soft pancakes. It's incredibly convenient. The fiber, oligosaccharides, isoflavones, and minerals in the soy pulp are all utilized, and it's incredibly delicious. Remember that soy pulp is loose, so the batter shouldn't be too thin.
Soy Milk Steamed Buns (Wotou)
Using cornmeal to make wotou (steamed corn buns) can result in a hard texture. It's a great idea to use soy milk and soy pulp instead of water. The fiber in them absorbs water, and the soy lecithin will soften the buns. Adding an egg and millet flour will improve the texture even more. Because corn protein lacks lysine, adding soy milk greatly improves the nutritional value of the wotou.
Soy Milk Steamed Egg Custard
Use soy milk instead of water to steam the egg custard, and it will be incredibly tender and smooth. The ratio is approximately one part egg to two or three parts soy milk. Add other seasonings as you normally would for steamed egg custard, such as salt, cooking wine, pepper, chicken essence, sesame oil, etc. You can also add shrimp, mushrooms, chopped green onions, and cilantro.
Eating more beans in the summer can help replenish the B vitamins, potassium, and magnesium lost through sweat, and it provides ample protein. It's a delicious and nutritious way to stay healthy.
Red Date Heart-Nourishing Soy Milk
Target Audience: Middle-aged and elderly people
Ingredients: 1/2 cup millet, 10 red dates, 2 cups of soaked soybeans
Instructions:
1. Wash the soaked soybeans and set them aside.
2. Mix the ingredients and add them to the machine's container, then wash.
3. Add water between the upper and lower water level marks, plug in the machine, select the "Grain Milk" function, and the soy milk will be ready in about ten minutes.
Nutrition Tip
This sweet and heart-nourishing soy milk has a delightful taste and can clear heat and nourish the blood. Red dates are a supreme remedy for replenishing qi and blood, and they are also affordable and of great value. The public doesn't need to buy expensive health products; skillful use of red dates can achieve health and wellness benefits.
In addition, dates can enhance the body's immunity, promote white blood cell production, lower serum cholesterol, increase serum albumin, and protect the liver. Red dates also contain substances that inhibit cancer cells and can even cause them to transform into normal cells.
Black Bean Charm Soy Milk
Target Audience: Middle-aged women
Ingredients: 1/3 cup black beans, 1/3 cup red beans, 1/3 cup mung beans
Instructions:
1. Soak the black beans, red beans, and mung beans in advance.
2. Mix the ingredients and add them to the machine's container, then wash.
3. Add water between the upper and lower water level marks, plug in the machine, select the "Grain Milk" function, and the soy milk will be ready in about ten minutes.
Nutrition Tip
This refreshing and charming summer soy milk is rich in aroma with a savory but not greasy taste. It helps men relieve summer heat, treat kidney deficiency, prevent hair loss, and effectively alleviate fatigue and weakness caused by work-related stress.
Mung Bean: Its ability to clear heat and toxins, relieve summer heat, and quench thirst is well-known. It is nutritionally rich and has many uses, earning it the praise of Li Shizhen as "a fine product among vegetables."
Red Bean: Modern research has found that red beans contain a type of saponin that promotes bowel movements and urination, and has a辅助 therapeutic effect on edema caused by heart or kidney disease.
Black Bean: The skin of black beans contains anthocyanins, which is a good source of antioxidants. It can remove free radicals from the body and is particularly effective in the acidic environment of the stomach, providing beauty benefits and increasing intestinal peristalsis.