Congee with Nuts and Dried Fruits(la ba zhou )

Congee with Nuts and Dried Fruits

Introduction:

"Baidu: Laba porridge is a kind of porridge made from a variety of ingredients during Laba Festival, which is used to pray for good weather in the coming year and ensure a good agricultural harvest. Laba porridge is a combination of eight kinds of food and cooked with rice in one pot, which is the meaning of gathering all things and harmonizing thousands of spirits. It is said that Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, had practiced hard for six years and became a Buddha under the bodhi tree on December 8. "Laba" has become the "memorial day of Buddha's becoming Tao". Laba is a grand Buddhist festival. In Henan, Laba porridge, also known as "everyone's meal", is a festival food custom in memory of Yue Fei, a national hero. Another legend says that Zhuanxu, one of the five emperors in ancient times, had three sons who turned into evil spirits after their death and came out to frighten the children. In ancient times, people generally believed in superstition and were afraid of ghosts. Adults believed that children's stroke and ill health were caused by ghosts on the Laba Festival. These evil spirits are not afraid of heaven and earth. They are only afraid of red beans, so there is a saying that red beans beat ghosts. Therefore, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, red beans and red beans are used to make porridge to dispel the epidemic and welcome the auspicious. The ingredients of Laba porridge vary from place to place. Now the ingredients of Laba porridge depend on personal taste, and can be added with sugar or salt. Chinese people love Laba porridge. Besides the food custom, it is also a good health product. A simple Laba porridge contains the functions of harmonizing the stomach, tonifying the spleen, nourishing the heart, clearing the lung, benefiting the kidney, benefiting the liver, improving the eyesight, calming the nerves and defecating. It can be said that it has all kinds of functions. At the same time, it has rich nutrition to enhance the immunity of the human body and improve the cold resistance index. "

Production steps:

Step 1: prepare all the ingredients. Red bean, Euryale ferox and Lily should be soaked in advance

Step 2: remove the red dates and prepare some raisins

Step 3: put red beans and Euryale ferox seeds in a cold water pan

Step 4: when the water is boiling, put a little cold water on it, then turn it on and put a little more cold water on it. Then add peanuts, lotus seeds, lily, etc

Step 5: put all kinds of rice in turn. At this time, you can put everything into other pots and press the program key to complete the porridge cooking.

Step 6: put white sugar or rock sugar according to your taste

Materials required:

Rice: 30g

Glutinous rice: 30g

Fragrant rice: 60g

Black rice: 10g

Sorghum rice: 20g

Lotus seed: 10g

Lily: 5g

Peanut: 10g

Tsz: 10g

Adzuki Bean: 30g

Jujube: 20g

Raisins: 15g

Sugar: right amount

Note: why is the fourth step repeated? (put a little cold water when the water is boiling, then turn it on, put a little more cold water.). It's because the color of porridge can be very red. Ha ha, this is a local ancestral trick.

Production difficulty: ordinary

Process: boiling

Production time: one hour

Taste: sweet

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