Eight-treasure porridge can be made as follows: ingredients: 50 grams of coix seed, 50 grams of white lentils, 50 grams of lotus seed meat (heart removed), 20 red dates, 50 grams of walnut meat (fried), 50 grams of longan meat, 25 grams of sugar plum, 500 grams of glutinous rice, and sugar 100 grams. Soak the first three ingredients until cooked, soak red dates, stir-fry walnuts and steam glutinous rice for later use; Take a large bowl and coat it with lard. Put plums, longan pulp, dates, walnuts, lotus seeds, white lentils and coix seed at the bottom of the bowl. Finally, cook the glutinous rice, steam it in a steamer for 20 minutes, put the eight-treasure rice in a big bowl, then add sugar and water to make juice.

Eight-treasure porridge, also known as Laba porridge and Buddha porridge, is a traditional festival food in China. It is a kind of porridge cooked with various ingredients in Laba Festival. "Old Wulin Stories" written by China literati in the Southern Song Dynasty said: "Cooking porridge with walnuts, pine nuts, milk, persimmons and chestnuts is called Laba porridge. Eight-treasure porridge has the effects of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, resolving food stagnation and losing weight, benefiting qi and calming the nerves. It can be used for dietotherapy of obesity and neurasthenia, and can also be used as daily health food.