1, Laba porridge
Speaking of the food customs of Laba Festival, the most widely known is drinking Laba porridge on Laba Festival, which is made of rice, glutinous rice, red dates, peanuts, red beans, millet, lotus seeds and other ingredients. Laba porridge, also known as "Qibao Wuwei porridge" and "Buddha porridge", has a history of 1000 years. It was originally used to worship ancestors and gods and celebrate the harvest. Laba porridge varies from place to place, salty and sweet, and there are many varieties.
Laba porridge
2. Laba noodles
In Weibei, Shaanxi, Laba porridge is generally not drunk on Laba Festival, and every household has to eat noodles in the morning, that is, Laba noodles. Laba noodles, commonly known as minced meat noodles, are cooked, fished out and put into a bowl, and then poured with two spoonfuls of steamed noodles cooked with pork, tofu, day lily, fungus, carrots, garlic seedlings and other ingredients. Is it a sweet word? ...
Laba noodles
3. Laba garlic
In most parts of northern China, it is customary to soak garlic in vinegar on Laba Day. The garlic soaked is called Laba garlic. Compared with the cooking technology of Laba porridge, Laba garlic is easier to soak. Put the peeled garlic cloves into a transparent and dry glass container, pour rice vinegar just in front of the garlic cloves, cover and seal for about 10 days, until the garlic cloves turn green and jade-like, and serve.
Laba garlic [garlic pickled with Laba vinegar]
4. Labadu
Laba bean is a local traditional snack in Hunan province, which is made of soybean, pepper, salt, ginger and other ingredients. Generally, it is pickled in beginning of winter and eaten after Laba Festival, so it is called "Laba Bean". Cleaning soybeans, soaking, cooking the soaked soybeans, taking them out, draining water, air-cooling, and putting them into a drying container for the first fermentation; When the first fermentation ends when the soybeans are salivating and sticky, ginger is cut into foam, pepper is chopped, and salt is fried to yellow, then seasoning is put into the soybeans and mixed evenly, and the mixed soybeans are put into a jar to be sealed for the second fermentation; /kloc-you can eat it in about 0/0 days. Laba beans are extremely delicious and are very popular with people.
Boiled soybean
5, Laba tofu
In yi county, Anhui Province, every household has to dry tofu every Laba, which is called Laba tofu. Locals are used to hanging Laba tofu in a ventilated place with straw ropes and taking it off when eating. Some people will carve Laba tofu into animals, flowers and so on. , cut well, drizzle with sesame oil and mix with seasonings such as onion, ginger and garlic. Fresh and fragrant, it is a rare side dish.
dried bean curd
6, stick fire spoon
Sticky fire spoon, also called sticky dry food and sticky fire, is a special food of Laba Festival in some northern areas.
The sticky fire spoon is made of glutinous rice flour, then add some rice flour to neutralize the viscosity, knead it into dough, fill it with red bean paste, press it into small thick cakes and cook it in a pot. The baked sticky fire spoon is crisp and sticky, and the filling is sweet and soft. It's so cold on Laba Festival that it will freeze your chin. You need to eat some sticky food to stick your chin. Therefore, people bake hundreds of cakes at one time on Laba Day, put them in vats and freeze them with snow. Take it out and steam it in the pot when you eat it.
7. Cook five beans
In some places, "boiled five beans" are eaten during the Laba Festival, that is, soybeans, peas, mung beans, cowpeas and broad beans with abundant grains are washed and soaked, then put them in a pot and add a few pieces of sweet potatoes to stew together. When they are ready to cook, sprinkle a handful of corn kernels and cook until five beans bloom. "Boiling five beans" indicates a complete and happy life in the new year, and also prays for good weather and good harvests in the coming year.
8. Laba cake
Laba cake, a strange term, many people have never heard of it. It is also a traditional food in the northern region, similar to eight-treasure rice, containing raisins, melon seeds, walnuts, glutinous rice, red dates and other ingredients. It tastes soft and sweet, and it is a rare delicacy. Now it can only be found in some old restaurants in Beijing.
Cake and pastry
9. Wheat and rice
The custom of Laba Festival in Xining, Qinghai Province is to eat cereal. On the night of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, people cook the freshly ground wheat with beef and mutton, ginger skin, tsaoko, salt, pepper and other condiments with slow fire for one night, and the meat and wheat are blended into milk. On the morning of August in the lunar calendar, rice is delicious and fragrant.