The ingredients of modern eight-treasure porridge depend on personal taste, generally including rice, peanuts, mung beans, red beans and lotus seeds. Others include lentils, red dates, longan, yam, lily, medlar, coix seed, millet, other beans and red dates. This porridge can be sweetened into dessert or salted.
The practice of eight-treasure porridge:
Ingredients: pumpkin 1 piece (about 700g), japonica rice100g, glutinous rice100g, round meat, red dates, mung beans and fresh lotus seeds 20g each, appropriate amount of wax gourd sugar or white sugar, and a small amount of salt.
Production method:
1, red dates are soaked in cold water for 20 minutes, and then the skin is washed; Steam with mung bean, round meat, lily and lotus seeds for 30 minutes.
2. Wash glutinous rice and japonica rice and put them in the pot. Cook them for 40 minutes with slow fire, then add the above ingredients and cook them slightly. Then add wax gourd candy or white sugar, and add a little salt to avoid being too sweet.
3. Cut the head of the pumpkin, remove the seed sac, put it in a steamer, and steam it with strong fire for about 20 minutes. When the meat of the pumpkin is cooked, put the above ingredients in the melon cup and steam it for about 10 minute.
Features: invigorating spleen and stomach, eliminating stagnation and losing weight, benefiting qi and calming the nerves. It can be used for dietotherapy for obesity and neurasthenia, and can also be used as daily health-keeping and bodybuilding food.