Supermarket rice to soak, before cooking eight treasures porridge is recommended to soak at least 2 hours in advance, until the ingredients soak soft, if the eight treasures porridge material soaking time is too short, not enough water absorption, it may still be difficult to cook; if the soaking time is too long, it will result in the loss of nutrients in the ingredients, thus affecting the nutritional value of the eight treasures porridge.

Because most of the main ingredients in the porridge are coarse grains, the texture will be relatively hard, it is difficult to cook directly, it will take a long time, so the porridge is generally not recommended to cook directly, it will be softened in advance with water and then boiled will be better, because in the process of soaking, the ingredients will be absorbed into the expansion of the texture of the loosening, it will be relatively easy to cook, which is easier to precipitate the nutrients. It's easy to analyze.