Laba porridge (healthy eight-treasure porridge with whole grains)

Overview

Every year in the twelfth lunar month, the New Year comes. Fortunately, eight treasures add honey to warm your hands and body, which makes your heart even sweeter.

Tags

• staple food
• porridge
• home cooking
• children
• old man
• breakfast
• lunch
• beijing cake
• corn grits
• longan
• miscellaneous beans
• miscellaneous rice
• peanut kernels
• raisins
• red dates
• ripe chestnuts
• rock sugar
• walnut kernels
• lotus seeds

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare ingredients: miscellaneous beans (red beans, mung beans, black beans, pinto beans, soybeans, kidney beans, red kidney beans, etc.): appropriate amount. Miscellaneous rice (glutinous rice, purple rice, black rice, barley, millet, rice, barley, oats, buckwheat, etc.): appropriate amount. Lotus seeds, peanut kernels, corn crumbs: appropriate amount

   

2. 2 Ingredients: red dates, walnut kernels, chestnuts (ripe), raisins, longan, rock sugar: appropriate amount

   

3. 3 After sifting out the remaining beans, rinse the miscellaneous beans, corn grits, and peanut kernels, soak them in cold water overnight, and set aside the next day.

   

4. 4 Boil. Pour the ingredients soaked overnight into cold water and simmer over high heat until the water boils. While waiting for the water to boil, we rinse the miscellaneous rice, red dates, and lotus seeds. After washing, soak the miscellaneous rice and lotus seeds in cold water and soak the red dates in warm water.

   

5. 5 After the water boils, pour in the mixed rice and lotus seeds and continue to simmer over high heat. At this time, observe that the total amount of water should be about three times that of all ingredients. At this time, add enough water at once, and try not to add more water later to avoid affecting the taste of the porridge.

   

6. 6 Stir constantly with a spoon until the porridge begins to thicken. When eight is ripe, add chestnuts and red dates. You can add rock sugar according to your personal taste, turn to medium heat and continue to simmer, simmer for another 5-8 minutes, turn off the heat, cover the pot and simmer. The overall cooking time for porridge is about 50-60 minutes.

   

7. 7 After putting it into a bowl, sprinkle with raisins, walnut kernels, chopped Beijing cake, candied fruits, etc. according to personal preference, and you can enjoy a heart-warming bowl of Laba porridge. (END)

   

8. 8 This Laba porridge is a good health-preserving porridge, which can be eaten frequently in winter. It is both warm and nourishing.

   

9. 9 Nowadays, Buddha porridge is fed to each other, and Jiangcun Village is more innovative.

   

10. 10 Don’t be greedy, kid. It’s the New Year after Laba Festival.