Chestnut Laba Congee

Name: Chestnut Laba Congee
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 4 chestnut; 6 Red dates; 20g red beans; 20g soy; 10g oat; 12g Lotus seed; 25g Arowana small fresh rice; 16g Glutinous rice; 850g Shimizu

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4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

2h

Serving

2

Laba, also known as Laba Festival, is the eighth day of December in the lunar calendar. It was called "Lari" in ancient times. After Laba, the Spring Festival is not far away. It can be said that it was a small "celebration" a year ago. Laba porridge, also known as "Seven Treasures and Five Flavors Congee", "Buddha Congee", "Family Rice", etc., is a kind of porridge made from various ingredients. The earliest written record of Laba porridge is in the Song Dynasty. The history of drinking Laba porridge in our country has been over a thousand years. Every Laba day, whether it is the imperial court, the monastery or the homes of the Li people, they cook Laba porridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge became even more popular.

Ingredients

Chestnut Laba Congee

1. Prepare the raw materials for Laba porridge: Arowana small fresh rice, lotus seeds, red beans, soybeans, red dates, glutinous rice, oats, millet

2. Pour out and wash the small fresh rice. Wash the red dates, red beans, soybeans, etc. with clean water

3. Teach you a small method of peeling millet skin. After removing the shell of the millet with scissors, boil the millet with the inner skin in water for a few minutes, and then tear off the inner skin by hand. It is easier. I used this method to peel off all 4 chestnut skins

4. Put red beans, soybeans, lotus seeds and red dates in an electric cooker

5. Pour the remaining millet, glutinous rice, small fresh rice and oats into the electric cooker

6. Add water, because it is the next morning to eat, so I set an appointment, let the eight kinds of ingredients slowly boil in the pot

7. The cooked laba porridge is sticky and soft

8. Come and have a bowl, it's soft and waxy, especially delicious

9. Laba Drink Laba Congee

Tips:
If you cook the porridge in an ordinary pot, you need to soak the lotus seeds, red beans, soybeans and millet in advance to make them soft. Peeling millet is more troublesome, you can try my little method. Arowana small fresh rice, 300 grams a can, the rice is very fragrant.