Before cooking eight-treasure porridge, you can soak the beans in cold water to make them swell, so that you can save time when cooking porridge. When the water boils, put the beans in the pot, so that the beans are easy to cook, starch is easy to dissolve into the soup, and there is no paste bottom, which saves more time than cooking porridge in cold water.

When cooking porridge, don't put all the food together, otherwise the porridge will be muddy and the taste level will not be enough. Therefore, some ingredients should be cooked separately and then put together in the porridge, so that every food can be cooked with a taste, but it will not be smelly.

Matters needing attention in cooking eight-treasure porridge

The main raw material of eight-treasure porridge should be rice. You can choose two or three kinds of rice, millet, coix seed, glutinous rice and black rice as the main ingredients when cooking porridge according to your preference. You can put a little of them all if you want, but in moderation. Secondly, it is the ingredients of porridge. The most common ingredients are red dates, peanuts, red beans, longan and lotus seeds.

You can also add some Chinese herbal medicines, such as Lycium barbarum. From the currently listed ingredients, except Lycium barbarum, longan and red dates, you need to soak them for half an hour in advance, and then put them in a pot for boiling, which takes about half an hour. It is best to put them in a pressure cooker to make them soft and glutinous, and it takes only ten minutes to get out of the pot.

Reference to the above content? Baidu encyclopedia-Babao porridge