Eight-treasure porridge, also known as Laba porridge and Buddha porridge, is a traditional festival food in China. It is a kind of porridge cooked with various ingredients in Laba Festival. Eight-treasure porridge has the effects of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, resolving food stagnation and losing weight, benefiting qi and calming the nerves. It can be used for dietotherapy of obesity and neurasthenia, and can also be used as daily health food.

material

50g of red beans, 300ml of purified water, 20g of peanut kernels, dried lotus seeds 15g, dried red dates 50g, seedless red raisins 50g, glutinous rice 180g, black rice 50g, pine nuts 15g, purified water 2200ml and crystal sugar 100g.

working methods

1. Wash red beans and peanuts, soak them in clear water for 2 hours, pour off the water, then put them in a small pot, cover them with 300 ml of water, cook for 30 minutes on medium heat, and turn off the heat. Save the cooked bean soup. Soak the lotus seeds in water for 2 hours and take them out. Take out lotus plumule. Wash the red dates and remove the core. Wash the raisins.

2. Wash glutinous rice and black rice, soak for 2 hours and drain.

3. Take a large soup pot, add 2000ml of red beans, peanuts, boiled bean soup, lotus seeds, red dates, raisins, glutinous rice, black rice, pine nuts and water, and bring to a boil. Put two chopsticks horizontally on the pot, cover the chopsticks with the pot cover, turn to low heat and cook for 1 hour for 20 minutes. At the same time, stir it occasionally with a spoon to avoid sticking to the pot. Add rock sugar, stir slightly, and simmer for 30 minutes.

Here are two delicious eight-treasure porridge practices for everyone!

Black glutinous rice eight-treasure porridge

Raw materials: black glutinous rice, white glutinous rice, oats, red dates, medlar, pine nuts, lotus seeds, longan and rock sugar.

Exercise:

1. Soak Lycium barbarum, oats and lotus seeds in warm water.

2. Put all the raw materials into the casserole, add appropriate amount of water and rock sugar, and simmer for about 90 minutes. Coarse-grain dried fruit "eight-treasure porridge" is the best carrier for daily consumption of various coarse-grain dried fruits. The beauty of black and white glutinous rice is that it contains a lot of waxy starch polysaccharide, which can keep the nutritional raw materials needed by the lower intestine.

Glutinous rice eight-treasure porridge

Ingredients: half a cup of glutinous rice, coix seed 1/3 cups, red beans 1/3 cups, a little longan pulp, 60g lotus seeds, and clear water 12 cups.

Eight-treasure porridge and a little sugar

Exercise:

1. Wash Coicis Semen and red beans and soak them in water until soft.

2. Wash the glutinous rice for later use

3. Add 12 cup of Coicis Semen and red beans into water for about 20 minutes.

4. Put the lotus seeds, glutinous rice and longan meat into the pot and continue to cook until cooked.

5. Add sugar to the porridge and serve.