50g of rice, 50g of yellow rice, 50g of sticky yellow rice, 50g of glutinous rice, 50g of glutinous rice (sticky sorghum rice), adzuki bean 100g, lotus seed 100g, longan 100g, peanut 100g and chestnut 100g.

manufacturing method

1. First put the lotus seeds in a bowl, soak them in water, then put them in a steamer, steam them on high fire for about 1 hour, and take them out for later use.

2, remove the skin and core of longan, as long as the meat; Peel chestnuts from their shells and clothes.

3. Put a proper amount of water into the pot, then wash barnyard grass, red beans, peanuts and small red dates and pour them into the pot to cook. When they are half cooked, wash the rice, yellow rice, sticky yellow rice and glutinous rice, and pour them into the pot to cook together. After boiling, cook them with low heat. When the porridge is cooked to 78% maturity, pour the steamed lotus seeds into the porridge and stir well. After boiling, turn off the fire for a while, put it in a clean and disinfected pot and sprinkle with sugar. Now there are ready-made ingredients of Laba porridge in the supermarket, but you can also choose the ingredients of Laba porridge according to your eating habits and physical condition, and the cooked Laba porridge will be very unique. raw material

Red dates, walnuts, black rice, fragrant rice, corn, raisins, red beans and millet (according to their own population ratio).

manufacturing method

1, red beans and corn are soaked for 3-4 hours in advance.

2, other materials mixed and washed.

3. Mix all the ingredients in a pot, add enough water, and simmer the porridge.

Use a teapot or other porridge cooking tools, and it is best to cook for three hours! Laba porridge is simple and nutritious. Like sweet, put some rock sugar together as a dish.

Salted Laba porridge practice, salty methods include soy products, diced meat or sausages.

Practice: Materials: 2 tablespoons of millet, corn, soybeans, mung beans and red beans; Ingredients: minced pork 100g, lotus seeds and chestnuts, a little salt.

First, soak all kinds of beans in cold water for 30 minutes and filter dry; Lotus seeds go to the heart and chestnuts are peeled; Boil the water, first put the beans in and cook for about 15 minutes, then add other materials, then boil the water and cook for about 45 minutes with slow fire. The famous Lama Temple Laba porridge, in addition to glutinous rice, millet and other grains, also has diced mutton and cream. Porridge noodles are sprinkled with red dates, longan, walnuts, raisins, melon seeds and green shredded pork. There are many kinds of Laba porridge in China. Among them, Beiping is the most exquisite, and there are many items mixed in white rice, such as red dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, longan, hazelnuts, grapes, ginkgo, water chestnut, moss, roses, red beans and peanuts. , a total of not less than twenty kinds. On the night of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, people began to get busy, washing rice, soaking fruit, peeling, coring and selecting carefully. Then start cooking in the middle of the night, then simmer until the next morning, and Laba porridge will be cooked. More sophisticated people should first carve fruits into human shapes, animals and patterns, and then cook them in a pot. What is more distinctive is that fruit lions are put in Laba porridge. Fruit lion is a lion made of several kinds of fruits, with peeled and dried crisp dates as the lion's body, half walnut kernel as the lion's head, peach kernel as the lion's foot and sweet almond as the lion's tail. Then stick them together with sugar and put them in a porridge bowl, just like a little lion. If the bowl is bigger, you can put two lions or four little lions on it. More exquisite, it is made of jujube paste, red bean paste, yam, hawthorn cake and other foods in various colors, and kneaded into statues of the Eight Immortals, the birthday girl, Luohan and so on. This decorative Laba porridge can only be seen on the altar of a big temple in the past. After laba porridge is cooked, you should sacrifice to God and ancestors first. After that, give it to relatives and friends, and be sure to send it out before noon. Finally, the whole family eats together. It is a good sign that the leftover Laba porridge will be preserved after eating for a few days, indicating that there is more than one year. If you give porridge to the poor, it will be better for you. Laba porridge also has the function of witchcraft in Han people. If there are flowers and fruit trees in the yard, put some Laba porridge on the branches. I believe it will bear more fruits next year. On the day of Laba, in addition to offering sacrifices to ancestors and worshipping God, there are also mourning and mourning for national subjugation.

Laba porridge was cooked with adzuki beans and glutinous rice in ancient times, and then the materials were gradually increased. Up to now, people in Jiangnan, Northeast and Northwest China still have the custom of eating Laba porridge, which is rare in Guangdong. With different materials, glutinous rice, red beans, jujube, chestnuts, peanuts, ginkgo, lotus seeds, lilies and so on are commonly used to cook sweet porridge. Longan, longan and candied fruit are all ripe. Eating a steaming bowl of Laba porridge in winter is delicious and nutritious, which can really increase happiness and prolong life.

Tianjin people cook Laba porridge, which is similar to Beijing's, including lotus seeds, lilies, pearl rice, Italian glutinous rice, barley kernels, sticky glutinous rice, sticky yellow rice, kidney beans, mung beans, longan meat, ginkgo, red dates, sweet-scented osmanthus in syrup and so on. They are all good in color, smell and taste. Black rice has been added since the 20th century. The Laba porridge can be used for dietotherapy, and has the effects of invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, invigorating qi, calming nerves, clearing away heart fire and nourishing blood.

Laba porridge in Shanxi, also known as eight-treasure porridge, is mainly millet, with cowpea, adzuki bean, mung bean, jujube, sticky yellow rice, rice and glutinous rice. In southeastern Shanxi, cooking porridge with water is also one of the eating customs. This kind of porridge is called fragrant rice, which means adzuki beans, red beans, cowpeas, sweet potatoes, peanuts, glutinous rice and persimmons on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month.

On the day of Laba in the northern Shaanxi Plateau, besides all kinds of rice and beans, porridge is cooked with all kinds of dried fruits, tofu and meat. Usually cooked in the morning, sweet and salty, depending on people's tastes. If you eat at noon, you should cook some noodles in the porridge, and the whole family can get together for dinner. After eating, you should put porridge on the door, on the stove and on the trees outside the door to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, so as to welcome the next year's agricultural harvest. According to the legend of the Han nationality, Laba Festival is a day when vegetables are not eaten, saying that eating vegetables will lead to a lot of weeds in crops. Laba people in southern Shaanxi want to eat mixed porridge, which is divided into "five flavors" and "eight flavors" The former is cooked with rice, glutinous rice, peanuts, ginkgo and beans. The latter uses the above five raw materials to add diced meat, tofu, radish and seasonings. On Laba Festival, people not only eat Laba porridge, but also worship their ancestors and granaries with porridge.

Gansu people have traditionally cooked Laba porridge with whole grains and vegetables. After cooking, it is not only for family members to eat, but also distributed to neighbors to feed livestock. In Lanzhou and Baiyin urban areas, Laba porridge is made of rice, beans, red dates, ginkgo, lotus seeds, raisins, dried apricots, dried wax gourd, walnuts, shredded mung beans, sugar and diced meat. After cooking, it is first used to worship the door god, the kitchen god, the land god and the god of wealth, and pray for good weather and good harvests in the coming year; Then give it to the neighbors and give it to the last family. Wuwei, Gansu pays attention to "Sulaba", eating coarse rice, lentil rice or coarse rice, cooked with fried seeds and twist. Folk call it "bean porridge bubble".

People in Ningxia usually cook porridge with lentils, soybeans, red beans, broad beans, black beans, rice and potatoes as laba rice, and add wheat flour or buckwheat flour to the "ears of wheat" cut into rhombic willow leaves, or make them into "sparrows' heads" of small round eggs, and then add chopped green onion oil for cooking. On this day, the whole family only eats laba rice, not vegetables.

Most people in Xining, Qinghai are Han people, but Laba doesn't eat porridge, but eats wheat kernel rice. Boil freshly ground wheat with beef and mutton, add green salt, ginger peel, pepper, tsaoko, Miao Xiang and other condiments, and after a night of slow fire, the meat and wheat merge into a milky white shape. Boil the pot in the morning, and the smell is fragrant.

In the "Confucius Food System" in Shandong Province, there are two kinds of "Laba porridge". One is made of rice kernels, longan, lotus seeds, lilies, chestnuts, red dates, japonica rice, etc. There are also some "porridge fruits" added to the bowl, mainly because the fruits are carved into various shapes for ornament. This kind of porridge is specially for Confucius' master and the master of the zodiac. The other is cooked with rice, sliced meat, cabbage and tofu. , is for the servants in Confucius.

People in Henan eat laba rice, which is made of eight kinds of raw materials, such as millet, mung bean, cowpea, wheat kernel, peanut, red dates and corn. When cooking, add some brown sugar and walnuts to make the porridge thick and fragrant, which means a bumper harvest in the coming year.

Eating Laba porridge in Jiangsu is divided into sweet and salty, and the cooking method is the same. It's just salty porridge with vegetables and salty steak. Suzhou people cook Laba porridge with arrowheads, water chestnuts, walnuts, pine nuts, euryales, red dates, chestnuts, fungus, vegetables, Flammulina velutipes and so on. Li Fu, a scholar in Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "The porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month came from Brahma, and the seven treasures blended beautifully with mixed flavors."

Zhejiang people usually cook Laba porridge with walnut kernel, pine nuts, Gordon Euryale seeds, lotus seeds, red dates, longan meat and litchi meat. Sweet and delicious, pray for a long life. It is said that this method of cooking porridge came from Nanjing, which contains some legends.

There are many people in Sichuan. Laba porridge is made in a variety of ways, including sweet, salty and spicy, while rural people eat salty food, mainly soybeans, peanuts, diced meat, white radish and carrots. Strangers come here to taste, although do as the Romans do, but it is difficult to get used to it. Nowadays, many people in the city eat sweet porridge, which can be called unique flavor. Laba is closely related to porridge. Drinking porridge in Laba is also a fancy and a level.