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/