Traditional Foods for Rakhi

What is the best meal to eat on Rakhi? Let's start with some of the traditional foods for Lahat Festival.

(a), Lapa congee

Lapa congee

practice

1. eight treasure congee material first wash down (supermarkets have ready-made eight treasure congee material package can be purchased)

2. and then soaked for about 3 hours. General can be soaked at night before going to bed on the morning porridge just

3. Even soaked water together into the rice cooker

4. General rice water ratio is 1:4 like to eat very thin, the water can be added a little more, set the porridge button can be

5. Do now eat, each time a small bowl of appropriate. You can add sugar or salty

Nutritional benefits of Lapa congee

Lapa congee ingredients

1, Lapa Festival to eat what rice? Eight treasures congee is also made of rice or glutinous rice (the main ingredient), add millet, mung beans, red small beans, walnuts, peanuts, small dates, yam, lotus seeds, etc., rich in protein, lysine, fatty acids and a variety of trace elements and a variety of vitamins.

2, millet: each 100 grams of millet contains 9.7 grams of protein, higher than rice. Fat 1.7 grams, 76.1 grams of carbohydrates, are not lower than rice, wheat. General grain does not contain carotene, millet per 100 grams of content up to 0.12 milligrams, the content of vitamin B1 is at the top of all grains.

3, mung beans: mung bean protein content is almost three times the round-grained rice, a variety of vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other inorganic salts are more than round-grained rice. Therefore, it not only has a good food value, but also has a very good medicinal value, there is a "world of food grain" said.

4, red beans: red beans are rich in starch, so they are also known as "rice beans". Red beans contain a variety of nutrients, per 100 grams of red beans containing 21.7 grams of protein, 0.8 grams of fat, carbohydrates 60.7 grams of calcium 76 mg, phosphorus 386 mg, iron 4.5 mg, thiamine 0.43 mg, riboflavin 0.16 mg, niacin 2.1 mg.

5, walnuts: walnuts is a favorite food, it is rich in protein, fatty acids, B vitamins, vitamin E, calcium, magnesium, selenium and other nutrients, can prevent cellular aging, can be brain, enhance memory and delay aging, reduce intestinal absorption of cholesterol, moisturize the skin, black hair and other efficacy; especially suitable for animal sclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease, as well as Brain laborers eat more, have to relieve fatigue and stress.

La Bao traditional food

6, peanuts: peanuts are long for nourishing and tonic, help prolong life, so the folk is also known as the "fruit of longevity" and soybeans as known as "plant meat", "vegetarian meat". Vegetable meat". Nutritional value of peanuts is higher than grain, comparable to eggs, milk, meat and other animal foods. It contains a large amount of protein and fat, especially the content of unsaturated fatty acids is very high, is very suitable for the manufacture of a variety of nutritious food.

7, small jujube: small jujube sugar content as high as 65%, per 100 grams of fresh jujube containing vitamin C300-600 mg, also rich in protein, fat, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, sodium, magnesium, chlorine, iodine, nicotinic acid and vitamin A, vitamin B1, B2 and other vitamins, the folk there is a "every day to eat three jujube, a generation not see! Old", "five grains plus small jujube, better than the spirit of fairy grass," said, regarded as a good nutritional tonic. In addition to its nutritional value, jujube also has a high medicinal value, can benefit the heart and lungs, spleen and stomach, benefit the qi and Jin Jin, to promote qi and blood, skin beauty and so on.

8, yam: yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, is conducive to the spleen and stomach digestion and absorption function, is a flat tonic spleen and stomach medicine and food products. Whether the spleen Yang deficiency or stomach Yin deficiency, can be eaten.

9, lotus seed: lotus seed contains a lot of starch, and contains cotton sugar, protein, fat, asparagine, calcium, phosphorus, iron and so on. Used for weak spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, or diarrhea can not eat; spleen diarrhea or urine drenching, women's discharge; kidney deficiency spermatorrhea, urinary frequency; heart loss of nourishment, false annoyance and insomnia, etc..

(2), Lapa beans

Spicy Lapa beans

practice

1. Wash soybeans, and skim the empty skin remnants, with cool water soak swell, fish out, add water to the pot (cooking water to cover soybeans an inch), the first big fire cook, then use a small fire to cook.

2. Fish out the beans from the water (put some salt in the cooking water and save it for later), and put it in a cloth bag to cool.

3. Put the cloth bag in a straw bag or other containers, surrounded by straw or cotton wool to keep warm, and put it in a place of about 20 degrees Celsius. After about 2-3 days, the soybeans are hot, fermentation grows white mold, remove and cool.

4. Then the beans in the bowl (pots), add the original cooking water; then add the right amount of ingredients, according to each catty of soybeans with salt 50 grams, pepper 2 money, the right amount to add fresh ginger crushed, love spicy people add chili powder 5 money together; mixing, such as saltiness is not enough, you can add some salt, and finally add a little white wine, mix well.

5. Take an altar, with white wine will be wiped inside the altar, the well-mixed beans into the altar, seal the mouth of the altar, 10 days after the food. Lapa beans can be equipped with a variety of dishes, steamed, boiled, fried fried can be; meat and vegetarian methods are delicious meals.

LaBaDou's characteristics

LaBaDou

LaBaDou is one of the traditional food in Hunan Province, China, has a history of hundreds of years, the folk in the eighth day of the eighth month of each year (that is, LaBaDou Festival) began to cook the beans pickle, until the next year to eat. Because the general pickled on the eighth day of the lunar month, so called "Laha beans". The finished product has a special flavor, and exceptionally delicious, and therefore very popular. But since ancient times has been home or small workshop production, and subject to seasonal constraints, has not been able to become a consumer food can be enjoyed in all seasons.

(C), sticky fire spoon

Sticky fire spoon

The saying goes that it's too cold in the day of Lahai, will be frozen off the chin, so you have to eat some sticky food to stick to the chin. Sticky fire spoon is a traditional northern Lahai food, Lahai this day hundreds of branding, branding, put the barn vat in the snow frozen, when eating, take out and put the pot distillation can be.

Sticky fire spoon to glutinous rice flour as raw materials, add rice flour and sticky, pot boiling red beans or baked sesame seeds as a filling. The glutinous rice flour is kneaded into a dough, filled with sweet red bean paste filling in the center, pressed into a small thick cake, and cooked on the pan. When you take a bite out of the pan, the outside is crispy and sticky, the inside is sweet and soft, and the size is small and delicate, like a Chinese version of gong bao.

(4), eat ice

Ice

The day before Lahai, people generally use steel pots to scoop up water and ice, and wait until Lahai Festival on the pot of ice and ice cracked into pieces. There is a saying that "the next year is not, first look at the Laha ice". Early in the morning on the day of Lahai, people also want to go to the river, the spring to smash ice, will be the back home, called "Lahai ice". Who got up early, the first to hit the ice, who will have more good luck.

It is said that Lahai ice can cure all diseases, this day to hit the ice, to put a long time, so that the children have a period of eating ice happy. Of course, adults also eat it. Interestingly, no matter how you eat, will not have diarrhea. Women on this day to use "Laha ice", bowl of beans and barley ground into a flour loose churning dough.