Being sick for many days makes the patient’s body weak and tired. Right now, shrimp and spinach porridge for the sick person is the most suitable choice to help provide many nutritious foods at the same time and help the patient absorb easily.
Shrimp and spinach porridge has a sweet and easy-to-eat taste, so it will help the patient feel delicious and eat better.
Shrimp meat has a rich nutritional system including nutrients such as Vitamin B12, Iron, Calcium, Selenium, Omega 3… to help restore the activities of the body’s muscular and nervous systems.
Spinach has a large content of Vitamin B, C to help strengthen resistance, increase the ability to absorb Iron and create blood, helping to supplement the energy lost during the time the body is weak.
1. Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup of rice.
- 100g shrimp.
- 1 bunch of Malabar spinach.
- Spices.
2. How to prepare:
- Step 1: Wash the rice and cook it thoroughly into porridge. Clean and chop the spinach. Peel the shrimp, remove the black vein, then chop and marinate with spices
- Step 2: Fry the shallots until fragrant, then add the marinated shrimp and stir until the shrimp meat is firm and turns pink
- Step 3: Pour the fried shrimp and spinach into the porridge pot and simmer until all the ingredients are soft
- Step 4: Season with spices and herbs to suit the patient’s taste.
3. Note how to choose fresh and delicious shrimp:
Shrimp body and head:
When choosing shrimp, you should choose live shrimp. Fresh and delicious shrimp often have a slightly curved body, firm meat but not too big and unusually thick. Besides, you should also note to choose shrimp with flexible, intact shells, the head must be firmly attached to the shrimp body, ensuring the shrimp will always be fresh.
Check the shrimp joints:
You should hold the shrimp up to the light and stretch the shrimp and look at the width between the joints on the shell and the shrimp meat. When you see that this joint is wide, it means that the shrimp is not fresh because it has been left for too long or left in the freezer for a long time. The narrower the shrimp joints, the fresher the shrimp meat, so choose it.
Shape of the shrimp:
When choosing shrimp, you should look at the shape of the shrimp. With spoiled shrimp, their bodies are often curved into a circle instead of straight or slightly curved.
Do not buy slimy shrimp:
Do not buy slimy shrimp. Most of these shrimps often bend their bodies into a circle instead of lying straight as usual. To check for this problem, you should use your finger to press on the shell and move your finger a few times from front to back, then vice versa, from back to front. If you feel like there is grit under your fingers or notice that the shrimp are slimy and sticky, you should not spend money on them.
Shrimp legs:
When buying shrimp, to know if the shrimp is fresh, you need to observe whether the shrimp’s legs are still firmly attached to the body or not. In addition, you should not choose to buy shrimp with legs that have turned black because this is a sign that they are spoiled due to being dead for a long time.
