Ingredients: glutinous rice, black rice, red beans, mung beans, lotus seeds, barley and red dates, etc. The above eight raw materials are washed and soaked for 4 hours, and then boiled together with the water soaked in rice until thick. At this time, southerners will add brown sugar or white sugar to make sweet eight-treasure porridge, which is also the characteristic of southerners who love sweets.

2. Making eight-treasure porridge in the north

Ingredients: similar to those made in the south, the same way. Only at the end of the meal, northerners did not add sugar, but served it with dried pickles, dried radishes, side dishes and Chili sauce. I didn't adapt to it at first, but later I found it delicious.

To sum up, it is not difficult to make eight-treasure porridge, which originally refers to making porridge with eight different raw materials. It's just that now people will increase or decrease at will according to their personal preferences. Rice, beans and dried fruits are all used. In addition, there is a black rice yam porridge on my personal homepage. Although there are not eight kinds of raw materials, the method is similar.

Tips for cooking eight-treasure porridge:

1 If you want the eight-treasure porridge to become sticky, you can try replacing rice with glutinous rice, which will make the eight-treasure porridge more viscous and taste better.

2. Secondly, all kinds of beans in the eight-treasure porridge are difficult to cook. We can soak the raw materials in advance. For example, red beans and coix seed can be soaked for 3 hours. When cooked, beans are easy to cook and have a soft taste.

3, according to their own materials to determine the amount of water, not too much, so that it will not be sticky when cooked, too little, it is easy to dry the porridge.

4. You can choose ceramic pot or pressure cooker to cook the eight-treasure porridge. When ceramic pot cooks, the fire will boil, and then it will be boiled on low fire for about 40 minutes. During this period, you must keep stirring to avoid burning the pot. The pressure cooker will choose the maximum pressure at first, and then change the pressure to low pressure when it makes a sound.

5, put the rock sugar before the pot, it will melt quickly, and the taste of the eight-treasure porridge will be better.

Eight-treasure porridge is a more healthy food, suitable for all ages, which can promote digestion and is the best choice for our breakfast. These are my skills in cooking eight-treasure porridge. The taste is soft, waxy and sticky as that sold outside. You must experience it yourself.