The traditional ingredients of Laba congee include rice, millet, corn, barley, red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, cinnamon and various beans.
Laha congee, also known as seven treasures and five flavors congee, Buddha congee, and everyone's rice, is a kind of congee made from diverse ingredients. "Drinking Laha congee" is a custom of Laha Festival, and the traditional ingredients of Laha congee include rice, millet, corn, barley, jujubes, lotus seeds, peanuts, cinnamon, and various kinds of beans.
The main ingredients of Laha congee are cereals, commonly used are round-grained rice, glutinous rice and barley. Beans are the ingredients of "Laha congee", commonly used soybeans, red beans. Peanuts and walnuts are also indispensable ingredients for making Laba congee. The ingredients of Laha congee vary according to local products. There are with the eighth day of the first eight days, to eight things mixed cooking. Among them, rice, carrots, green vegetables, for the indispensable three treasures. In addition, there are peanuts (or soybeans), lotus seeds, white fruit, tofu or oil tofu, taro and other ingredients.
Different places of Lahai congee
Tianjin cook Lahai congee, similar to Beijing, more sophisticated and add lotus seeds, lilies, pearl rice, Job's tear grains, barley kernels, sticky Panicum, sticky yellow rice, kidney beans, green beans, cinnamon, longan meat, white fruits, jujubes, and sugar cinnamon and other color, aroma and flavor, etc., good. In recent years there are also added black rice.
Guangdong also Lapa Festival, mainly Hakka people, used to do Lapa congee materials due to different regions have also made corresponding changes, such as the north more millet, jujubes, while the Hakka people are more glutinous rice, lily, lotus seeds, and so on.
Shanxi's Laha congee, also known as eight treasures congee, mainly millet, additional cowpeas, small beans, mung beans, jujubes, and sticky yellow rice, rice, rice, rice, etc. to cook. Southeast region, the fifth day of the first month of Lunar New Year with small beans, red beans, cowpeas, sweet potatoes, peanuts, glutinous rice, persimmon cake, water porridge, also known as sweet rice, is also one of the food customs.
Gansu traditionally cooked porridge with grains, vegetables, cooked in addition to family members to eat, but also sent to neighbors, but also used to feed livestock. In Lanzhou, Baiyin urban areas, Laha congee cooked very carefully, with rice, beans, jujubes, white fruit, lotus seeds, raisins, dried apricots, dried gourds, walnuts, green and red silk, sugar, diced meat and so on into the cooking.