It is recommended to soak in advance. Soak in advance because some ingredients of eight-treasure porridge are beans. In order to make the ingredients easy to cook and soft, it is necessary to soak them in advance to absorb water, so that they are more likely to rot when cooked. The suitable soaking time is 3 hours.

What is eight-treasure porridge?

Eight-treasure porridge is actually what people often call "Laba porridge".

Eight-treasure porridge is porridge cooked with a variety of ingredients in Laba Festival. Folklore comes from Tianzhu.

"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.