The custom of drinking Laba porridge on Laba Festival comes from Buddhism. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is the day when Buddha Sakyamuni became a Buddha. In order not to forget the suffering of the Buddha before he became a Buddha, but also to commemorate the enlightenment of the Buddha on the eighth day of December, ancient Indians ate mixed porridge as a souvenir. Since Buddhism was introduced to China, temples have cooked porridge with fragrant valleys and fruits and distributed it to believers and loyal men and women. In the Song Dynasty, the folk gradually formed the custom of cooking and drinking porridge on Laba Festival, which has continued to this day. [ 1-2]
Wu's Dream in the Southern Song Dynasty says: "On the eighth day of this month, the temple name is Laba. Dasha and other temples have five-flavored porridge called Laba porridge. " In the Qing Dynasty, the custom in Volume 11 of Fang County Records said: "Laba porridge is made of rice, wheat beans and various fruits and vegetables, which is called Laba porridge. If the fruit tree had any lies, he put the porridge in the hole with an axe and asked,' If it doesn't knot, the branches will break.' Call it "feeding trees".
Ingredients: 150g round glutinous rice, 25g mung bean, 25g red bean, 25g cashew nut, 25g peanut, 25g longan, 25g jujube, 1 small piece of dried tangerine peel.
Seasoning: 75g rock sugar,
Exercise:
1. Soften all materials with water and wash them.
2. Fill the porridge pot with water, add all the ingredients to boil, and then turn to medium heat for about 30 minutes.
3. Add rock sugar to taste and serve.
Features: sweet and delicious, rich in nutrition.
The chef knows everything: this porridge can be eaten cold or hot.
Exercise 2
Raw materials: 50g of rice, 50g of yellow rice, 50g of sticky yellow rice, 50g of glutinous rice, 50g of glutinous rice (sticky sorghum rice), adzuki bean 100g, lotus seed 100g, longan 100g, peanut 100g and chestnut/kloc-.
manufacturing method
1. First put the lotus seeds in a bowl, soak them in water, then put them in a steamer, steam them with strong fire for about 1 hour, and take them out for later use.
2, remove the skin and core of longan, as long as the meat; Peel chestnuts from their shells and clothes.
3. Put a proper amount of water into the pot, then wash barnyard grass, red beans, peanuts and small red dates and pour them into the pot to cook. When they are half cooked, wash the rice, yellow rice, sticky yellow rice and glutinous rice, and pour them into the pot to cook together. After boiling, cook them with low heat. When the porridge is cooked to 78% maturity, pour the steamed lotus seeds into the porridge and stir well. After boiling, turn off the fire for a while, put it in a clean and disinfected pot and sprinkle with sugar. Now there are ready-made ingredients of Laba porridge in the supermarket, but you can also choose the ingredients of Laba porridge according to your eating habits and physical condition, and the cooked Laba porridge will be very unique.
Exercise 3
The raw materials are red dates, walnuts, black rice, fragrant rice, corn, raisins, red beans and millet (according to their own population ratio).
manufacturing method
1, red beans and corn are soaked for 3-4 hours in advance.
2, other materials mixed and washed.
3. Mix all the ingredients in a pot, add enough water, and simmer the porridge.
Use a teapot or other porridge cooking tools, and it is best to cook for three hours. Laba porridge is simple and nutritious. If you like sweet, put some rock sugar to eat together as a dish.