Longan Congee

(Last Updated on June 5, 2025 by Amiee)

Today’s recipe is longan porridge, which comes from a health book from the Qing Dynasty.

What are the effects of longan porridge?

It can nourish the heart, calm the nerves, strengthen the spleen, and replenish blood. It is suitable for palpitations, panic, insomnia, forgetfulness, anemia, spleen deficiency diarrhea, edema, neurasthenia, spontaneous sweating and night sweats caused by insufficient heart blood.

The ingredients needed to cook porridge are longan meat, red dates, and Japonica rice.

Remove the shell and core of the longan and take its pulp.

Longan is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It has high nutritional value. It contains glucose and multiple vitamins. It is suitable for people with deficiency of both heart and spleen. It can nourish and strengthen the body, calm the mind and benefit the blood.

Red dates, it is best to remove the core. If you don’t remove the core, you can cook it directly and remove the core when you eat it. The nutritional value of red dates is well known to people. It can nourish the heart and blood, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach. I made videos about red dates before.

The rice used for cooking porridge is round Japonica rice, not long rice. Porridge made from Japonica rice is especially suitable for the elderly and the weak.

How to make longan porridge?

Prepare the amount for one person

Ingredients:

20 grams of longan meat

3 red dates,

50 grams of glutinous rice, washed. 1 liter of water.

Instructions:

1. Pour water into the pot, add longan meat, red dates, and Japonica rice,  cook on low heat for 20 minutes after the water boils, then turn off the heat.

2. The longan porridge is ready. Serve warm.

How to eat

Eat one bowl each morning and evening.

People with colds, aversion to cold and fever, or thick and greasy tongue coating are not suitable for eating longan porridge.