Laba porridge, which originated in ancient La Worship, is used to celebrate the harvest and has been passed down to this day.
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The implication of drinking Laba porridge on Laba Festival
Meaning: warm, complete, harmonious, auspicious, healthy, convenient, grateful, happy and attached.
Steps of Laba porridge:
Composition:
Rice, glutinous rice, coix seed, black rice, millet, lotus seeds, mung beans, red beans, soybeans, red kidney beans, black beans, red dates, longan, walnuts and raisins.
Exercise:
1. Soak rice, glutinous rice, coix seed, black rice, millet and lotus seeds for 3 hours.
2. Soak mung beans, red beans, soybeans, red kidney beans and black beans until soft.
3. Pour the water into the casserole, add kidney beans, red beans, mung beans, coix seed, black beans, soybeans and lotus seeds, and boil over high fire.
4. Cover and stew for 30 minutes.
5. Add soaked rice, glutinous rice, coix seed, black rice and millet.
6. Cook on low heat 1 hour.
7. Add red dates, longan, chestnuts, walnuts and raisins and cook for one hour.
8. it's done.
Laba porridge, also known as "Qibao Wuwei porridge", is made of a variety of ingredients. Its traditional ingredients include rice, millet, corn, coix seed, red dates, lotus seeds, longan and various beans (such as red beans, mung beans, soybeans, black beans and kidney beans). In the Song Dynasty, the custom of cooking porridge and drinking porridge on Laba day gradually formed and continued to this day. Laba porridge has also become a traditional food that people enjoy every day.
Laba porridge has a wide range of ingredients, and its biggest advantage is complementary nutrition. For example, there is a lack of lysine in grains and methionine in beans, so grains and beans can learn from each other and jointly improve the titer of food protein; For example, white rice lacks dietary fiber and B vitamins, so Laba porridge mixed with many whole grains is a high-fiber diet!