Healthy Congee: Healthy & Delicious Series

Author: Liang Qiongbai
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The poet Lu You once wrote in a poem, "Everyone in the world seeks longevity, yet they fail to realize that longevity is right before their eyes. I have found a simple method from Wanchu, merely by eating congee to reach sainthood." This shows that eating congee is the simplest form of health-preserving dietary therapy. In the early days, some poor families would eat congee or add ingredients like sweet potatoes and taros to save on rice, which turned out to be a healthier way to stay full. Meanwhile, some wealthy and leisurely families, who rarely worked, also used congee as one of their daily staple foods for health preservation, as it is easy to digest and absorb. Therefore, eating congee is not limited by wealth, but the flavors can be incredibly diverse. This book introduces the ingredients and methods for making sweet congee, savory congee, and vegetable congee, as well as how to cook perfect congee.