Does Job's tears need to be soaked in advance?

Job's tears is a popular food. The main effect of raw job's tears is to promote diuresis and remove dampness, while cooked job's tears can reduce swelling, benefit the kidneys and strengthen the spleen. Many people choose to cook porridge with coix seed, which has the effect of whitening the skin. Then you need to understand that before using coix seed to make porridge, you need to soak it in advance. Firstly, soaking it will make it cook faster and more fragrant, and secondly, it is to remove the medicinal taste of the coix seed itself.

1. Job's tears has the effect of whitening the skin. JMS often uses it to make porridge. In order to make it as soft and hard as other rice grains (I will add peanuts and corn crumbs to the porridge), the Job's tears should be soaked in water in advance. If you want to cook it tomorrow morning, soak it before going to bed the night before. If you want to eat it at night, soak it before going out in the morning. There is no fixed number, but it is generally soaked for at least four hours. Baidu says 2-3 hours, but that requires soaking in hot water. Otherwise, it will not be soft enough in winter and the taste will be bad. Job's tears itself smells lightly like medicine, and it will be better after being soaked.

2. The carbohydrate content of Job's tears is very high. After drying, the carbohydrates are tightly bound and not easy to cook. Job's tears also contain a certain amount of resistant starch that is difficult to digest and absorb, so it takes more time to cook. Soaking the Job's tears will make it cook faster.

3. Job's tears need to be soaked in clean water. As long as the time is controlled well, you can use cold water or hot water. You can wash the coix seeds and then soak them in clean water. After soaking, you can use the soaking water directly to cook things without wasting nutrients.

4. Wash the Job's tears, add clean water twice as much as the Job's tears, and soak it directly in cold water for 12 hours. If the temperature is lower in winter, you can soak it for 16 hours, or soak it in warm or hot water for more than six hours. If the temperature is high in summer, you can soak the coix seeds in the refrigerator to prevent them from going bad.

5. Barley porridge is difficult to cook, so it is best to soak it in warm water for 2-3 hours before cooking to allow it to fully absorb water. After absorbing the water, it will be easy to cook when cooked with other rice. When cooking porridge, first boil it over high heat and then simmer over low heat. This way the porridge will be fragrant, glutinous and especially delicious. In addition, do not pour out the soaking water when cooking (part of the nutrients are in the water), add some water and cook together.

6. Before cooking coix seeds by soaking method, wash the coix seeds first, then soak them in clean water for about 2-3 hours. When the coix seeds have absorbed enough water, they will be easier to cook. In hot weather, it is best to refrigerate the soaked coix seeds in the refrigerator, and then cook the water used to soak the coix seeds together, so as to avoid the loss of the nutrients in the coix seeds.