Laba porridge

Overview

The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is also called the twelfth lunar month, so the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is also commonly known as Laba. I remember there was a jingle when I was a kid: Don’t be greedy, little kids, it’s the New Year after Laba. After Laba Festival, the flavor of the New Year will become more intense. When I was a child, it was more about looking forward to the Chinese New Year than I loved the Laba festival. During the Chinese New Year, you can have a big holiday without going to school. There are a lot of snacks and delicious food, as well as new clothes and New Year's money. What's more important is that during the Chinese New Year, as long as you don't go to the house and destroy the roof, no adults will fix you, and you can be wild. Now that I am getting older, I have lost interest in all festivals. The only thing that remains is my love for the delicacies that accompany each festival. So of course you have to drink Laba porridge during the Laba Festival! When preparing the ingredients, I discovered that there are really many kinds of cereals at home! I grabbed a handful of everything except rice, glutinous rice, millet, black rice, red kidney beans, walnuts, peanuts, lotus seeds, red dates, raisins, and longans on the tray. Later, we found soybeans, mung beans, black beans, red beans, barley, peas and chestnuts, totaling eighteen kinds. During the cold Laba Festival, make a pot of fragrant Laba porridge and drink a delicious bowl with salted duck eggs and Laba garlic. It is both suitable for the occasion and warms up!

Tags

• staple food
• porridge
• home cooking
• maternity
• breakfast
• winter recipes
• barley rice
• black beans
• black rice
• chestnut
• glutinous rice
• longan
• mung beans
• peanuts
• peas
• raisins
• red beans
• red dates
• red kidney beans
• rice
• rock sugar
• soybeans
• walnut
• xiaomi
• lotus seeds
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Ingredients to prepare: 40 grams of rice, 40 grams of glutinous rice, 40 grams of millet, 40 grams of black rice, 40 grams of red kidney beans, 6 walnuts, 40 grams of peanuts, 40 grams of lotus seeds, 6 red dates, raisins 10 grams, 10 longans, 20 grams soybeans, 40 grams mung beans, 20 grams black beans, 40 grams red beans, 8 chestnuts, 20 grams barley rice, 40 grams peas, 5 rock sugar, appropriate amount of water.

   

2. 2 Soak beans such as red kidney beans, peanuts, soybeans, mung beans, black beans, red beans, barley rice, and peas, which are relatively hard and difficult to cook, in water overnight in advance.

   

3. 3 Wash the rice, glutinous rice, millet, black rice, barley rice, and lotus seeds and soak them in water for three hours. Remove the shells of chestnuts and longans.

   

4. 4 Wash the red dates, remove the core and cut into strips.

   

5. 5 Soak chestnuts and peel off the skin.

   

6. 6 First put the harder-to-cook ingredients such as red kidney beans, peanuts, soybeans, mung beans, black beans, red beans, barley rice, peas, and chestnuts into the pot. Add an appropriate amount of water and cook over high heat until half-cooked, then add the rest of the ingredients. After boiling, turn down the heat and continue cooking for about an hour.

   

7. 7 Cook until the rice grains are soft and glutinous, the beans are crispy, and when the porridge becomes thick, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar.

   

8. 8 Simmer over low heat until rock sugar melts.