Complete recipes for postpartum meals

Since it is a postpartum confinement meal, of course you have to be careful with it. For example, when cooking or making soup, it is not appropriate to add too many seasonings, which will destroy the nutrients in it. So how should postpartum confinement meals be prepared? Below we will take barley rice, pork liver fried with salad oil, Chuanxiong fish head soup, and braised pig's trotters with peanuts as examples to talk about the preparation methods of various dishes for postpartum confinement meals.

1. Barley Rice

Raw materials: Job's tears, rice, water

Method: 1. Wash the coix seeds and rice separately and soak them in water for 3-4 hours.

2. Put the soaked coix seeds and rice into the rice cooker, add appropriate amount and cook.

Function: It can help relieve dampness and swelling, and can help mothers alleviate the problem of urinary retention; it can also strengthen gastrointestinal function and improve the ability of gastrointestinal digestion.

2. Stir-fried pork liver with salad oil

Ingredients: beef liver, ginger, sesame oil, water

Method: 1. Wash the beef liver and cut it into 0.5 cm thick slices; wash the ginger and cut it into slices with the skin.

2. Pour the salad oil into the pan and heat it over high heat. Add the ginger slices and simmer until both sides of the ginger slices are wrinkled. Be careful not to stir-fry until they are burnt.

3. Turn down the heat, add the beef liver and stir-fry until it changes color, add water, turn off the heat immediately after boiling, and enjoy it while it is hot.

Function: It helps pregnant women to expel dirty blood out of their bodies. It is recommended to take it in the first week after giving birth.

3. Chuanxiong Fish Head Soup

Raw materials: fish, ginger, black sesame oil, Chuanxiong, water.

Method: 1. Prepare all the raw materials and clean the cakes.

2. Heat the oil in a pan over high heat then simmer, add the ginger and fry until dark brown.

3. Add fish, water and Chuanxiong, turn to high heat and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes.

Function: Promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, replenish blood and qi, and supplement nutrients.

4. Braised Pig’s Trotters with Peanuts

Raw materials: peanut kernels (raw), dried shrimp, pig's trotters, ginger, oyster mushrooms, salad oil, water

Method: 1. Soak the oyster mushrooms until soft, cut into strips and set aside; boil the peanut kernels in boiling water, then peel them into two pieces.

2. Heat the salad oil, add the ginger and fry until cooked through, remove and set aside.

3. Put the pig's trotters into the pot and fry until the skin loses color, then remove and set aside.

4. Add the peanuts and stir-fry for a while, then add the pig's trotters, ginger, and finally the oyster mushrooms, shrimps and water. Cover and bring to a boil, then put into a stew pot and simmer for about 8 hours.

Effect: Pregnant women who have insufficient milk or a bland taste for milk in the third week can take appropriate amounts of peanuts and pig's trotters to supplement their imported milk.