Balsam pear has a bitter taste, non-toxic, and cold nature. It enters the heart, liver, spleen and lung meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat and dispelling summer heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying, diuretic and cooling blood, relieving fatigue and clearing heart, replenishing qi and strengthening yang. It mainly treats heatstroke, summer heat polydipsia, summer furuncle, excessive prickly heat, red eyes and swelling, carbuncle swelling and erysipelas, burns, oliguria and other diseases.
Shrimp is sweet, salty and warm in nature; it has the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening yang, regulating qi and appetizing appetite.
Balsam pear and shrimp porridge
By TyrelPouros
Recipe Recommendations
- bitter gourd a subsection
- shrimp appropriate amount
- rice a
- salt appropriate amount
- qingshui appropriate amount
Steps for Balsam pear and shrimp porridge
1
One piece of bitter gourd, appropriate amount of dried shrimp, and a handful of rice.
2
Remove seeds from bitter gourd, wash, and cut vertically into slices for later use.
3
Boil rice into porridge, add bitter gourd and dried shrimp.
4
Cook for five minutes.
5
Add a little salt and simmer for ten minutes.
6
Finally, add a little sesame oil, stir well, and serve.