Babao, also known as Laba porridge, Buddha porridge, is a traditional festival food in China. It is a kind of porridge cooked with various ingredients in Laba Festival. It contains more than eight kinds of materials, including mung beans, red beans, lentils, white lentils, red dates, peach kernels, peanuts, lotus seeds, longan, pine nuts, yam, lily, medlar, gordon euryales, coix seed and so on.
The original meaning of "eight-treasure porridge" refers to porridge made from eight different raw materials. But today, many "eight-treasure porridge" materials have exceeded eight kinds. ?
Dish features
Laba porridge, also known as Babao porridge, is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients in Laba Festival. The folklore comes from Tianzhu. China literati in the Southern Song Dynasty carefully wrote "Old Wulin Stories", saying: "It is called Laba porridge to make porridge with walnuts, pine nuts, milk, persimmons and chestnuts. Eight-treasure porridge, also known as Laba porridge, Buddha porridge, five-flavor porridge, seven-treasure porridge, seven-treasure five-flavor porridge and so on.
The ingredients and production of eight-treasure porridge are very simple. The finished product is bright in color, soft and sweet, fragrant and attractive, smooth but not greasy. Sugar, milk and so on can be added according to the taste when eating.