MENU 2 CONFINEMENT

 

Breakfast

Oatmeal, bread, biscuits, milo/Horlicks and any other suitable food such as puttu, idly, capati.

Lunch

Congee/porridge

Ingredients (serves 2)

° 100g rice, washed and drained

° 1.2 litres water-wine blend (2tablespoon)

° 1 slice ginger

° 1 tablespoon wolfberries (boxthorn berries), soaked

° 150g spinach, finely chopped

° salt and pepper, to taste

 

1. Put the rice, ginger, wolfberries and water wine in a claypot or pot. Let it stands for 1 hour or more, if desired.

2. Bring the congee to a boil for 15 minutes. Turn off the heat, cover with a lid and leave it to stands for 30 minutes or more.

3. Re-boil the congee for few minutes prior to serving. Add in the spinach. To thicken the congee, mix 1-2 tablespoons of glutinous rice flour with 4 tablespoons of water and stir into the congee, if desired. Season with salt and pepper.

-         Seaweed soup

-         Fruit- apple, prunes/plum, banana

Dinner

-         Rice

-         Carrot,pine nut and walnut soup- 3 spice powder, water-wine and salt, 10 walnut and some carrots-boil it)

-         Enoki, green pea bean, and tempeh fry with garlic, 3 spice and salt.

-         Fruit- apple, prunes/plum, banana

-         Yogurt

Snack

 Red dates tea, soups, kekacang, fruits.

 

1)      Spice mix x3

Dry ginger, long pepper (piper longum) and turmeric. (take all 3 ingredients in same portion) – dry blend. Add it to all the cooked vegetables and curry. You can find the long peppers in traditional indian stores.

VEGETARIAN CONFINEMENT RECIPES

 Hello :) All recipes here are taken from internet sources and modified according to my taste. By the way, I am Hindu and most of the recipes here are related to Indian food. Hope it's useful for you too during confinement. 

MENU 1 CONFINEMENT

 

Breakfast

Oatmeal, bread, biscuits, milo/Horlicks and any other suitable food such as puttu, idly, capati.

Lunch

Chestnut porridge

Soak chestnut until they are swollen. Steam chestnuts until they are cooked. Combine chestnuts with, wolfberries, Chinese mushrooms (oyster), 6 red dates (preserved), some ginger, sweet brown rice/white rice, water-rice wine blend (1/2 litre water & 2tble rice wine) and cook the combination into rice or porridge. (add salt and pepper).

-         Fruit- apple, prunes/plum, banana

-         Seaweed soup-follow recipe

Recipe:

6gm seaweed 
1 clove garlic
1 tsp sesame oil 
3 cup water

½ cup tofu
10 walnut

1 tablespoon miso

1. Soak in cold tap water seaweed for 15 minutes. Drain and cut smaller of they are big.
2. Heat a saucepan on medium low heat. Put in sesame oil and saute garlic until fragrant.
3. Put in seaweed and cook for a while.
4. Put in water, bring to a boil. The soup will turn whitish.
5. Put in tofu slices, walnut and bring back to a boil.
6. Put in miso or season with salt.

 

Dinner

Soak sweet brown rice overnight/morning. Add ginger, longan, brown sugar and dried tangerine peel (just a small piece, not too much), water- rice wine blend (1/2 litre water and 2 tbsp rice wine) and cook into porridge. (add salt and pepper)

-         Fruit- apple, prunes/plum, banana

 

Snack

 Red dates tea, soups, kekacang

1)      PRESERVED RED DATES - check the recipe here https://www.lapislazulilight.com/articles/vegetarian-recipes-for-traditional-confinement-in-childbirth/