For expectant mothers, getting enough nutrition is extremely important, because it affects not only the mother's health but also lays the foundation for the baby's later development. Join Yến Sào Sài Gòn in discovering 5 porridge dishes that help supplement nutrition for mothers throughout the 9 months of pregnancy!
Bird's nest porridge with minced pork
Bird's nest porridge with minced pork is a delicious dish for pregnant women that helps nourish the health of both mother and baby. In addition, eating this porridge regularly during pregnancy can also help mothers beautify their skin and effectively prevent ageing as well as stretch marks.
Ingredients to prepare for this dish:
Refined bird's nest
100g finely ground pork
Rice
Filtered water
Finely chopped spring onion, garlic and coriander
½ teaspoon each: sesame oil, cooking oil, salt.
1 teaspoon each: soy sauce, ginger juice, white spirit.
Depending on taste, mothers can adjust the amount of seasoning as appropriate.
Preparation
+ Wash the rice clean, let it drain, then dry-roast it in a hot pan for about 8 minutes. After roasting, put the rice in a pot with just enough water and start cooking the porridge.
+ Fry the spring onion and garlic until fragrant, then stir-fry the minced pork until cooked.
+ While waiting for the porridge to cook, steam the bird's nest by double-boiling. When the porridge is done, add the stir-fried pork, season to taste, then add the bird's nest and serve hot.
Note: Mothers should only buy bird's nest from reputable, quality brands such as Yến Sào Sài Gòn to ensure the health and safety of both mother and baby.
Mung bean porridge with chicken
This delicious chicken dish for pregnant women is not to be missed during pregnancy, because chicken contains plenty of protein, phosphorus... nutrients that benefit both mother and baby. Combined with mung beans, it also helps cool the body and restore strength.
Ingredients:
Regular rice: 1 handful
Glutinous rice: 1 handful
Mung beans: 150g
Chicken: 1/2 a chicken or 1 chicken thigh
Salt, seasoning powder, fish sauce, spring onion, coriander, pepper, fried shallots.
Method:
+ Wash the mung beans clean and set them aside in a bowl. Wash the rice clean and let it drain.
+ Wash the chicken clean and put it in a pot on the stove. Once the water boils, add salt. Cook the chicken until a bamboo chopstick pushed through the meat releases no pink juice, which means the chicken is done. Take the chicken out onto a plate, let it cool, then pull the meat off the bone and shred it.
+ In a pan, fry the dried shallots until fragrant, then add the washed rice and dry-roast for about 5 - 8 minutes until the grains firm up.
+ Pour the chicken stock from earlier into a pot, add the rice and mung beans and cook over low heat, stirring now and then with a ladle.
+ Cook until the rice swells and turns soft, then add the shredded chicken and cook together over low heat, seasoning to taste. Cook for another 15 to 20 minutes, then turn off the heat.
Eel porridge
This is a delicious dish for pregnant women that combines eel with a variety of seasonings, both flavourful and good for expectant mothers.
Ingredients:
Eel
Regular rice
Spring onion, turmeric
Seasoning
Method:
+ Wash the eel clean and put it in a pot of water over low heat so the eel meat does not split. When it is just cooked, take the eel out and rinse it in cold water so the meat firms up.
+ Gently strip the eel meat from the bones, keeping the bones and the eel blood (the reddish-brown part running along the eel's spine).
+ Pound the eel bones to extract the juice and add it to the original cooking water to cook the porridge.
+ Marinate the eel meat and eel blood together with spring onion, garlic, salt, sugar and a little turmeric to reduce the fishy smell and give an appealing yellow colour. Leave for about 15 minutes, then lightly stir-fry in a pan.
+ Add the stir-fried eel to the porridge pot, then add a little spring onion and season to taste, and it is ready to serve.
Shrimp and pumpkin porridge
This dish is a rich source of vitamin A. In addition, the antioxidants in pumpkin also help avoid infection during pregnancy, strengthen the immune system, maintain stable lipid levels during pregnancy and help pregnant women with bowel movement, preventing constipation and haemorrhoids.
Ingredients:
1 piece of pumpkin, 200gr
1 handful of glutinous rice
200gr fresh shrimp
Salt, seasoning powder
Coriander, spring onion
Method:
+ Peel the pumpkin, wash it and slice it thinly.
+ Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water for a few hours until it swells.
+ Peel the shrimp, remove the black vein, then dice or finely grind them. Marinate the shrimp with a little seasoning powder and finely pounded white spring onion bulbs.
+ Put the glutinous rice, water and pumpkin in a pot and cook until very soft (use twice as much water as rice). While cooking, mothers should remember to stir regularly so the porridge does not stick to the bottom of the pot and burn.
+ When the porridge is cooked to a soft, thick consistency, add the diced or ground shrimp and turn off the heat once they are just cooked.
+ Season to taste, sprinkle spring onion and coriander on top, and serve hot.
Carp porridge
Carp porridge is a delicious dish for pregnant women that helps settle the pregnancy, nourish qi and blood, dispel tiredness and anaemia, and in particular helps promote milk flow after childbirth.
Ingredients:
1 carp (about 500g)
Glutinous rice 100g
Spring onion, finely pounded ginger, seasoning powder as needed.
Method:
+ Clean the carp, then marinate it with ginger, fish sauce and salt for about 20 minutes. Put the carp and glutinous rice in a pot with 500ml of water and cook until the glutinous rice is soft.
+ Before eating, mothers add the seasoning and finely chopped spring onion and stir well.
These 5 simple, unfussy dishes make nourishing meals for mothers throughout pregnancy.
Yến Sào Sài Gòn wishes mother and baby good health always!