Congee with Nuts and Dried Fruits(la ba zhou )

Congee with Nuts and Dried Fruits

Introduction:

"The porridge made in Laba is not made until today. I'm so lazy. I haven't told you that I made Laba garlic the day before yesterday*^__ ^*(hee hee...) On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Laba, as a folk custom, is the first festival before the Spring Festival. Since then, the "new year flavor" has become increasingly strong. The custom of eating Laba porridge in Laba has been a thousand years in China. Besides the custom, eating Laba porridge is really scientific. Cao Yanshan, a nutritionist in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a book called "porridge spectrum", which gives a detailed and clear account of the fitness and nutritional functions of Laba porridge: it regulates nutrition, is easy to absorb, and is a good food therapy product. It has the functions of harmonizing the stomach, tonifying the spleen, nourishing the heart, clearing the lung, benefiting the kidney, benefiting the liver, relieving thirst, brightening the eyes, relieving defecation and calming the nerves. The ingredients of Laba porridge are different, such as glutinous rice, red beans, red dates, chestnuts, peanuts, ginkgo, lotus seeds and Lily. There are also add longan, longan meat, preserves cooked the same. In fact, besides Laba, eating a bowl of steaming Laba porridge in winter is not only delicious and nutritious, but also can increase happiness and longevity! "

Production steps:

Step 1: prepare glutinous rice, job's tears, brown rice, black rice, red rice and red beans.

Step 2: prepare longan, medlar, Lily and jujube.

Step 3: except rock sugar, wash all ingredients with clean water and put them into the rice cooker.

Step 4: add 1 liter of clean water (if more than 1 meter, increase the amount of water).

Step 5: cook porridge in the electric cooker. At first, leave it alone until the heat preservation light is on. Add some rock sugar, cover and simmer for a few minutes. The sweet and glutinous Laba porridge is ready.

Materials required:

Glutinous rice: right amount

Job's tears: right amount

Brown rice: moderate

Black rice: right amount

Red rice: right amount

Red beans: moderate

Longan: moderate

Wolfberry: moderate

Lily: right amount

Red dates: moderate

Rock sugar: right amount

Precautions: 1. Rock sugar should be put at the end to make the porridge more viscous. 2. If you are hardworking and have a good memory, you can not add Lycium barbarum first, but soak it with water. After the porridge is cooked, you can add it with rock sugar, and heat it with the remaining temperature of the porridge, so as to keep the color of Lycium barbarum bright.

Production difficulty: simple

Process: boiling

Production time: one hour

Taste: sweet

Chinese PinYin : La Ba Zhou