The main ingredients of Eight Treasures Porridge are: barley rice, white kidney beans, adzuki beans, mung beans, rice, millet, yellow rice, jujubes, chestnuts, peanuts, jujubes, almonds, walnuts, lotus seeds, lilies, cinnamon, raisins, soybeans, corn, silver fungus, lotus seeds, goji berries.
The original meaning of "Eight Treasures Porridge" is to make porridge with eight different ingredients. But today. Many "eight treasures congee" ingredients have been more than eight. "Eight treasures porridge" is generally round-grained rice, glutinous rice or black glutinous rice as the main ingredients, and then add supplementary ingredients, such as mung beans, adzuki beans, lentils, white lentils, jujubes, peach kernels, peanuts, lotus seeds, cinnamon, pine nuts, yams, lilies, wolfberries, fructus cornutum, Job's tears and other boiled into a porridge.
People in different parts of our country according to their own dietary favorite, choose different ingredients. Different brands of cans, "eight treasures porridge" its ingredients are different. But basically four categories of raw materials: rice, beans, dried fruit, Chinese herbs. Family simmered "eight treasures porridge", and sometimes add chestnuts, carrots, sausages, salted meat and so on.
Expanded Information:
Types of Eight Treasures Congee:
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The traditional practice of Lapa congee is to pick up and wash barley rice, white kidney beans, red beans, mung beans, etc., and cook them half-cooked, and then put in rice, millet, yellow rice, and then simmer, is the porridge is thin and thick, eaten with sugar and mixed with pre-cooked jujubes, chestnuts and so on. Generally there are peanuts, dates, almonds, walnuts, chestnuts, lotus seeds, lilies, cinnamon yuan meat, raisins, and a variety of rice and beans and other components.
2, corn and eight treasures porridge
Corn porridge is unique to the Northeast food, is to peel the navel of corn (hereinafter referred to as corn kernels) based on the addition of kidney beans cooked and become. Eight Treasures Corn Porridge is a porridge based on corn porridge with red dates, peanuts, black beans, pumpkin chunks, fungus and cinnamon.
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