Lily Congee with Peanuts

Go nuts with Lily Congee with Peanuts

Lily and peanut congee is a dish that can quickly replenish your strength. The lilies impart a gentle fragrance alongside the peanuts’ refreshing sweetness, all perfectly blended into an exquisitely soft and sticky white congee with a pure, sweet aroma. Ancient medical texts suggest that peanuts can benefit one’s qi, and if this congee is eaten over a long period of time, it can greatly benefit the female complexion.

Nutritional effects

Lily congee with peanuts aids the lungs and nourishes yin, strengthens the spleen and calms coughs. It has a reliable healing effect on chronic inflammation of the windpipe, emphysema, asthma, pulmonary heart disease, tuberculosis, lung abscesses, and whooping cough.

Ingredients

1/2 ounce (15 grams) lily bulbs
1/2 ounce (15 grams) peanuts
1/4 cup (30 grams) rice

Seasonings

white sugar to taste

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

Cooking Directions

Soak the lily bulbs in fresh water overnight and rinse clean. Rinse the peanuts with water and soak them in fresh water for 30 minutes. Wash the rice.

Add the appropriate amount of water to a pot then add the peanuts and bring to the boil, then simmer for 20 minutes.

Add the rice and lily bulbs, bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer until they become congee.

Add sugar to taste.