The traditional delicacy of Xiaohan season is Laba porridge.

Laba porridge contains eight kinds of food, including glutinous rice, sesame, Yiren, longan, red dates, shiitake mushrooms, and lotus seeds.

On the basis of fine ingredients such as white rice, it is appropriately paired with some grains such as brown rice and miscellaneous grains. This combination of thickness and thickness not only tastes more textured, but also allows for a richer intake of nutrients.

When processing ingredients, different ingredients must be washed, soaked, peeled, cored, sorted and other operations based on their characteristics.

For example, ingredients that are not easy to cook, such as beans, need to be fully soaked before cooking so that they will become softer and more delicious after cooking.

Folks have the habit of adding edible alkali when cooking Laba porridge, thinking that it will cook faster and the porridge will have a better consistency.

However, this approach can easily cause the loss of B vitamins and other nutrients.

Experts recommend not adding alkali when cooking Laba porridge. You can easily cook delicious Laba porridge by cleverly using the "multigrain porridge" function of electric rice cookers and electric pressure cookers.

Classification of Laba porridge: Laba porridge cooked in Tianjin is similar to that in Beijing. For more sophisticated ones, lotus seeds, lilies, pearl rice, barley rice, barley kernels, sticky rice, sticky yellow rice, kidney beans, mung beans, longan meat, longan meat, ginkgo,

Red dates and sweet osmanthus in sugar water are all good in color, aroma and taste.

The Laba Festival is also celebrated in Guangdong, mainly by the Hakka people. The materials used to make Laba porridge have also changed according to different regions. For example, millet and red dates are mostly used in the north, while glutinous rice, lilies, lotus seeds, etc. are mostly used by the Hakka people.

Shanxi's Laba porridge, also known as eight-treasure porridge, is mainly made from millet, with cowpeas, adzuki beans, mung beans, dates, and sticky yellow rice, rice, glutinous rice, etc. added to it.

In the southeastern Shanxi region, on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, adzuki beans, red beans, cowpeas, sweet potatoes, peanuts, glutinous rice, persimmons, and water are used to cook porridge, also called sweet rice, which is also one of the food customs.