This home made Yellow Ginger Rice is a very simple and healthy rice dish and there is no artificial colorings and flavorings added. I learned it through experimentations and family members love it very much. Here’s the recipe...
The main ingredients are: rice, a small piece of fresh turmeric root or yellow ginger 黄姜, raisins and pandan leaves (optional).
Ginger 姜 in general has been used widely as a Chinese medicinal herb. One of its key uses is to aid digestion - it can help digest fatty foods and break down proteins and is excellent for reducing gas, relieving nausea and treating motion sickness. Ginger can also help reduce inflammation and has been used to treat related diseases such as arthritis or ulcerative colitis. Being a warm herb, ginger can help remove fever and is a good remedy for colds. Recent studies also show that ginger might help in lowering LDL cholesterol too. For more info on the benefits of ginger, you may refer to this WHFoods website.
Yellow ginger or turmeric root 黄姜 is a powerful medicine that has long been used in the Chinese and Indian medicinal history as an anti-inflammatory agent to treat a wide variety of conditions including flatulence, menstrual difficulties, bloody urine, hemorrhage, toothache, bruises, chest pain, and colic. Like other gingers, it is an effective treatment for inflammatory diseases as well as lowering LDL cholesterol. Besides, turmeric has been found to relieve rheumatoid arthritis, inhibits cancer cell growth and metastases and prevents cancers especially colon cancer, improves liver function, protects cardiovascular as well as Alzheimer’s disease. More of the medicinal benefits of this ginger type can be found on this Chinese Website 百度百科.
Let’s start... peel a small piece of fresh yellow ginger and grind it using a hand held kitchen grinder to give a paste (please see Picture a below). Mix the paste (just a little bit would do) with rice and water, add some raisins, a few drops of oil and a little salt to taste (b) and steam over high heat for 20 minutes or cook the rice in a rice cooker as per normal, and voilà, you have a nice homie yellow ginger rice with raisins (c) and (d)!
p.s. As yellow ginger is a strong colorant, please wash the grinder immediately affer use or else the stain will stay.
Hope you try this healthy rice delight... Cheers!
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