Laba porridge

Overview

Today is a severe cold, and it also happens to be the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The most representative food of the Laba Festival is Laba porridge. Boil a pot of fragrant and hot Laba porridge and drink a bowl of it, which is both suitable for the occasion and warm up! A friend asked me which eight ingredients are the most authentic in Laba porridge? In fact, the ingredients of Laba porridge are not limited to a certain eight kinds. Traditional Laba porridge includes three major categories of ingredients: cereals, beans and fruits. As long as you choose eight or more kinds of ingredients to make porridge according to your own preferences, it will be the Laba porridge that suits you best! I remember there was a nursery rhyme when I was a kid: Don’t be greedy, little kid, it’s the New Year after Laba. The big cold is coming, Laba is coming, and the Spring Festival is getting closer. This year has been very difficult for everyone. Don’t forget to drink a steaming bowl of Laba porridge tomorrow, which warms the heart and nourishes the stomach. I wish everyone all the best in the coming year.

Tags

• porridge
• laba
• longan
• red beans
• red dates
• red peanuts
• rice
• walnut
• xiaomi
• drinking water
• lotus seeds

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 First of all, we need to prepare the ingredients needed to make [Laba porridge]. Although it is called Laba porridge, it does not have to be made from eight specific ingredients. You can mix it at will according to the existing grains at home. I prepared eight kinds of ingredients based on the inventory at home: rice, millet, red beans, red dates, red peanuts, lotus seeds, longan and walnuts.

   

2. 2 First, soak red beans and lotus seeds, which are relatively hard ingredients that are not easy to cook, in water in advance. Then peel the walnuts and take out the walnut kernels, peel the longans and take out the longan meat, cut the red dates with a knife and take out the date cores.

   

3. 3 Wash the walnut kernels, longan meat and red dates to remove impurities, then wash the soaked red beans and lotus seeds together with the rice, millet and red peanuts.

   

4. 4 Put all the ingredients into a casserole, add 1800ml of drinking water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for about 1 hour. Use a spoon to stir in the middle to prevent sticking to the pan.

   

5. 5 Watch the various ingredients in the casserole simmering and cooking until the rice grains bloom and become soft and glutinous, the beans become crispy and crispy, and the porridge becomes thicker and thicker, then turn off the heat. If you like sweet porridge, you can also add some rock sugar to taste.