Before cooking eight-treasure porridge, you can soak the beans in cold water to make them swell, which can save time when cooking porridge. When the water boils, put the beans in the pot, so that the beans are easy to cook, the starch is easy to dissolve in the soup, and there is no paste bottom, which saves time than cooking porridge in cold water.

Don't put all the food together when cooking porridge, otherwise the porridge will be turbid and the taste level will not be enough. Therefore, some ingredients should be cooked separately and then put together in porridge, so that each dish can be cooked to taste, but it will not stink.

Matters needing attention in cooking eight-treasure porridge

The main raw material of eight-treasure porridge should be rice. When cooking porridge, you can choose two or three kinds of rice, millet, coix seed, glutinous rice and black rice as the main ingredients. If you like, you can put a little of it all, but in moderation. Followed by the ingredients of porridge. The most common ingredients are red dates, peanuts, red beans, longan and lotus seeds.

You can also add some Chinese herbal medicines, such as Lycium barbarum. Judging from the ingredients currently on the market, except Lycium barbarum, longan and red dates, they need to be soaked for half an hour in advance, and then boiled in a pot, which takes about half an hour. It's best to put them in a pressure cooker and let them be soft and glutinous. It only takes ten minutes to get out of the pot.

Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-Babao porridge