Creamy Fruit Congee

Sweet, Creamy and Cooling Congee

Using fresh fruit in congee can result in great taste and a visually appealing dish that can whet people's appetite with just one glance. Creamy fruit congee is a typical home-cooked Cantonese sweet congee dish which uses red bean, red dates, lotus seed embryo, banana, and rice as its main ingredients. Adding milk during the cooking process helps make the dish more filling and adds extra dimensions to its texture.

Nutritional Effects

Creamy fruit congee clears heat, lubricates the intestines, harmonizes the stomach, fortifies the spleen, boosts qi, nourishes blood, eliminates vexation, quenches thirst, supplements center qi, and helps alleviate high blood pressure. It provides excellent food therapy for warm heat disease, vexation and thirst, constipation, and bleeding from hemorrhoids.

Delecious Vegetarian Creamy Fruit Congee — Delicious Vegetarian Creamy Fruit Congee

Delicious Vegetarian Creamy Fruit Congee

Ingredients

3/4 cup (50 grams) rice
1.76 ounces (50 grams) red bean
1.76 ounces (50 grams) red date
0.35 ounces(10 grams) lotus seed embryo
1 banana
6.7 fluid ounces (200 milliliter) milk

Seasonings

sugar to taste

Please see measurements in grams to be more exact for all ingredients and seasonings.

Cooking Directions

Wash red dates with warm water. Wash rice, red bean, and lotus seed embryo separately.

Place red dates, rice, red bean, and lotus seed embryo in clay pot. Add milk and then an appropriate amount of water. Bring to rolling boil over high heat, then reduce heat to low and let simmer into congee.

Peel banana and cut into small segments. Add evenly to finished congee.

Add sugar, and then bring to a rolling boil again and serve.