The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as Laba Festival, is an important folk festival. There is a saying that "it is the year after Laba". The folk custom is to drink Laba porridge on this day, which originated from Buddhism. Because after Buddhism was introduced to China, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month was the day when Buddha Sakyamuni became a monk and became a Taoist, so the temple used sweet cereal to cook porridge and distributed it to kind men and women.
In the Song Dynasty, the folk had already formed the custom of cooking and drinking porridge on Laba Festival, which has a history of more than 1000 years.
Laba porridge is not only drunk by ordinary people, but also a grand Laba Festival ceremony is held in the Forbidden City every year, which shows that China people attach importance to Laba Festival. In Laba season, when it is freezing, drink a bowl of hot Laba porridge to warm your stomach and body.
Regarding Laba porridge, Li Fu, a Suzhou scholar in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem called "porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, handed down from the Vatican, with seven treasures and five flavors." What are the "seven treasures" and "tasteless" Laba porridge is made of various grains and sweet fruits, and the practices vary from place to place.
The most traditional Laba porridge consists of eight kinds of food, such as glutinous rice, sesame, coix seed, longan, red dates, mushrooms and lotus seeds. It is delicious and nutritious.
There are four kinds of Laba porridge in Qing Dynasty, such as chestnuts, beans and nuts. There are as many as ten or twenty ingredients, which are rich in nutrition and delicious. It is usually done on the evening of the seventh day of the seventh grade. After staying up all night, the porridge was fragrant and sticky, and it was very delicious.
Share a delicious Laba porridge with you. There are quite a lot of materials. Friends who like to drink will collect them and make laba for their families.
Tasty labazhou
Prepare black rice, glutinous rice, red beans, mung beans, peanuts, raisins, coix seed, longan, lotus seeds, red dates and crystal sugar.
working methods
Step 1: Wash red beans, peanuts and lotus seeds twice with clear water and soak them in clear water for at least 8 hours. Wash the black rice and soak it in clear water for 8 hours.
Step 2: Add a proper amount of water to the rice cooker, pour in red beans, peanuts and lotus seeds, then add black rice, pour in water soaked in rice, and cover to select the porridge cooking function.
Step 3: Rinse mung beans and coix seed with water and soak them in water for 10 minute. Peel longan, wash glutinous rice and raisins and drain.
Step 4: After the rice cooker is boiled, pour in mung beans and coix seed, then add glutinous rice, raisins and longan, stir well with a spoon, cover and continue cooking for half an hour.
Step 5: Wash the peeled red dates, put them into the pot after half an hour, add a proper amount of rock sugar, and continue to cook for half an hour. When rice and beans are cooked, porridge becomes sticky.
Step 6: Turn off the power and stew in the pot for 10 minutes, and Laba porridge will be cooked.
Cooked Laba porridge is fragrant and sticky, suitable for all ages and rich in nutrition. It is not only a custom and food, but also a good health care product for ordinary people. Laba porridge is suitable for all kinds of people. Women eat blood, the elderly eat calcium, pregnant women eat iron, enhance the body's immunity and improve cold resistance.
Skills of cooking Laba porridge
1, the ingredients should be rich, not too single, and high-quality ingredients should be selected to ensure that there are no moldy, spoiled and odorless ingredients. Many people buy packaged ingredients directly to save trouble. Pay attention to whether the package is intact and whether it is still within the shelf life.
2, the method of porridge is simple, but you still need to pay attention to the following two points to prevent nutrient loss.
1 Laba porridge has many ingredients and different processing methods. According to its characteristics, it is easier to cook by cleaning, soaking, peeling, coring and selecting carefully. Beans, miscellaneous grains and other ingredients are not easy to boil, so they must be soaked in advance, and the taste will be soft and rotten after full soaking.
Many people like to add edible alkali to porridge, and think it is wrong to cook it quickly and sticky. Edible alkali can destroy B vitamins, so it can't be added. If you choose the porridge cooking function of the rice cooker, you can cook it very thick.
3, special people should pay attention to drinking Laba porridge, diabetics should not add sugar, put more cereals and beans; If you have indigestion, you should put less soybeans, which will cause flatulence; Obese people, don't use white rice without sugar, add more starchy kidney beans and red beans to increase satiety!