When laba rice is made in Ningxia, lentils, soybeans, red beans, broad beans, black beans, rice and potatoes are generally used to cook porridge, and wheat flour or buckwheat flour is used to cut into rhombic "ears" of willow leaves or made into "sparrows' heads" of small round eggs, and chopped green onion oil is added before cooking porridge. On this day, the whole family only eats laba rice, not vegetables.
Xining Laba Festival does not drink porridge, but eats wheat kernel rice. On the night of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the newly ground wheat grains are cooked with beef and mutton, with green salt, ginger skin, pepper, tsaoko, Miao Xiang and other condiments, and cooked overnight with slow fire.
In Shandong's "Confucius Food System", it is stipulated that there are two kinds of "Laba porridge", one is made of coix seed, longan, lotus seeds, lilies, chestnuts, red dates and japonica rice. And add some "porridge fruit" to the bowl.
Mainly carved into fruits of various shapes, especially for decoration. 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.
Laba rice is made of 8 kinds of raw materials, including millet, mung bean, cowpea, wheat kernel, peanut and jujube. When cooking, add some brown sugar and walnuts to make the porridge thick and fragrant.
Suzhou people cook Laba porridge with arrowheads, water chestnuts, walnuts, pine nuts, euryales, red dates, chestnuts, fungus, vegetables, Flammulina velutipes and so on.
Zhejiang Laba porridge is generally boiled with walnut kernel, pine nuts, Gordon Euryale seeds, lotus seeds, red dates, longan meat and litchi meat. Sweet and delicious.
Jilin generally uses coix seed, longan, adzuki bean, glutinous rice, black beans, red dates, rice and brown sugar as vegan raw materials.
Laba porridge was cooked with adzuki beans and glutinous rice in ancient times, and then the materials were gradually increased. 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.
Tianjin boiled Laba porridge is similar to Beijing, including lotus seeds, lilies, pearl rice, coix seed, coix seed, glutinous rice, sticky yellow rice, kidney beans, mung beans, longan meat, longan meat, ginkgo, red dates and sweet-scented osmanthus in syrup. They are all good in color, smell and taste.
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.