1, eight-treasure porridge is washed for later use, and then discharged when the water boils. The ratio of material to water depends on how thick porridge to cook.
2. Boil the eight-treasure porridge with a high-pressure rice cooker: put the water and the eight-treasure porridge into the pot together, soak for 30 minutes, then turn on the electricity for 40 minutes, add 5 minutes if it is not soaked, and open the pot to eat eight-treasure porridge for one hour. If you eat sweet food, you can also put sugar and eight-treasure porridge together.
Second, slow down
It usually takes about 5 hours to cook eight-treasure porridge slowly.
Soaking the ingredients for about 5 hours in advance can shorten the cooking time of porridge and ensure that all ingredients can be boiled.
Eight-treasure porridge is generally based on japonica rice, glutinous rice or black glutinous rice, and then added with 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 to make porridge. The ingredients of these foods are mainly starch, protein and carbohydrates. Once soaked for too long,
Babao: Also known as Laba porridge, Buddha porridge, China traditional festival food. It is a kind of porridge cooked with various ingredients in Laba Festival. 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 has the effects of invigorating the spleen and nourishing the stomach, eliminating stagnation and losing weight, benefiting qi and calming the nerves. It can be used for dietotherapy for obesity and neurasthenia, and can also be used as daily health-keeping and bodybuilding food. 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, and the finished product is bright in color, soft and sweet, fragrant and attractive, smooth but not greasy, and has the functions of supplementing iron, enriching blood, nourishing qi and calming the nerves. Sugar, milk, etc. can be added according to taste when eating.