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. In the Old Wulin Story written by China literati in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is said that "porridge made of 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.

Cuisine characteristics

Laba porridge, also called Babao porridge, is porridge made of various ingredients in Laba Festival. Folklore comes from Tianzhu. "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. Eight-treasure porridge, also known as Laba porridge, Buddha porridge, five-flavor porridge, seven-treasure porridge, seven-treasure five-flavor porridge and so on.

The ingredients and production of eight-treasure porridge are very simple, and the finished product is bright in color, soft and sweet, fragrant and attractive, smooth but not greasy, and has the functions of supplementing iron and blood, benefiting qi and calming the nerves. Sugar, milk, etc. It can be added according to taste when eating.

brief introduction

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, according to our tradition, many places have the habit of eating "Laba porridge". The so-called "eight-treasure porridge" is actually what people often say "Laba porridge".

The original meaning of "eight-treasure porridge" refers to porridge made from eight different raw materials. But today. Many "eight-treasure porridge" use more than eight kinds of materials. "Eight-treasure porridge" generally takes japonica rice, glutinous rice or black glutinous rice as the main material, and adds auxiliary materials, such as mung beans, red beans, lentils, white lentils, red dates, peach kernels, peanuts, lotus seeds, longan, pine nuts, yams, lilies, medlar, gordon euryales and coix seed. People in different parts of China choose different materials according to their dietary preferences.

Different brands of cans have different materials for "eight-treasure porridge". But there are basically four kinds of raw materials: rice, beans, dried fruits and Chinese herbal medicines. Cooking at home is "eight-treasure porridge", sometimes chestnuts, carrots, sausages, bacon and so on are added.