Prepare ingredients: half a bowl of red beans, one bowl of red dates, half a bowl of alkaline noodles, raisins, a small bowl of walnuts, glutinous rice and peanuts.

Operating steps:

1. Add a proper amount of clear water to the wok and bring it to a boil. After the water is boiled, we will put a small bowl of prepared walnuts in boiling water. Blanch for two minutes, this step is mainly to remove the bitter taste of walnut kernel. This is why the eight-treasure porridge you cooked will taste bitter and astringent.

2. Cook for about two minutes, then remove the water and set aside. Wash the prepared red dates, red kidney beans and raisins in clear water. Remember to wash raisins with flour. There are too many wrinkles on the surface of raisins. At this time, the dust on the surface of raisins can be cleaned by using the adsorption of flour.

3. After cleaning a small bowl of glutinous rice, we put it in a large plate, and then add a proper amount of water into it. Put it in a steamer, and also put the cleaned red dates on it. Cover the pot and steam for half an hour.

4. Take another clean steamer, and then add a proper amount of water into it. Don't add too much water, we need to add it two or three times later. Then pour the prepared cowpea and adzuki bean into a cold water pot. Add a spoonful of alkaline noodles to it and mix well.

5. Cover the pot and bring it to a boil. After the water boils, add a bowl of cold water to it. At the same time, put the processed peanuts and walnuts in it and stir it again. Continue to cover the lid and start cooking with low heat. After the water boils, add cold water again to control the temperature in the soup. Prevent the pot from boiling dry.

6. When you cook cowpea, you must remember not to boil it. If you keep boiling with a big fire, cowpea will easily boil. This will make the bottom of the pot easy to paste. So we have to keep cowpea in a state of half-opening.

7. After adding cold water for about 3 times, the red dates and glutinous rice have been steamed. Then put the red dates and glutinous rice in the cowpea pot. Cover and bring to a boil. Then put the prepared raisins and melon seeds in it. Then add enough sugar according to your own taste.

8. Cover the lid and simmer for five minutes again. A delicious and bright red eight-treasure porridge is ready.