Laba Congee

Name: Laba Congee
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 40g Rice; 30g red beans; 40g Millet 30g; 40g Lotus seed; 40g Red Peanuts; 11 pieces Red dates; 6 walnut; 8 pcs Longan; 1800ml drinking water

by The cat who doesn't want to go downstairs

4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

1h

Serving

3

Today's cold weather coincides with the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The most representative food for Laba Festival is Laba Congee. Boil a pot of fragrant and warm Laba porridge, and drink a bowl of it. It is both suitable for the scene and warming up! My friend asked me which eight ingredients are the most authentic in Laba Congee? In fact, the ingredients of Laba porridge are not limited to a certain eight. Traditional Laba porridge contains three types of ingredients: cereals, beans and fruits. As long as you choose eight or more of the ingredients to make the porridge according to your own preferences, It's the Laba Congee that suits you best!

I remember there was a nursery rhyme when I was young: "Don't be greedy, kids, Laba is the new year." When the cold is coming, Laba is coming, and the Spring Festival is getting closer. This year has not been easy for everyone. Tomorrow, don’t forget to drink a bowl of steaming laba porridge, which will warm your heart and nourish your stomach. I wish you all the "porridge" in the coming year.

Ingredients

40g Rice
30g Red Beans
40g Millet 30g
40g Lotus Seed
40g Red Peanuts
11 pieces Red Dates
6 Walnut
8 pcs Longan
1800ml Drinking Water

Laba Congee

1. First of all, we have to prepare the ingredients needed to make [Laba Congee]. Although the name is Laba Congee, it does not have to be made with eight specific ingredients. It is enough to mix and match according to the existing grains in your family. I prepared eight kinds of ingredients: rice, millet, red beans, red dates, red peanuts, lotus seeds, longans, and walnuts based on the inventory at home.

2. Soak the hard ingredients such as red beans and lotus seeds in advance with water. Then peel the walnuts and take out the walnut kernels. After the longan is peeled, take out the longan meat, and cut the red dates with a knife to remove the jujube cores.

3. Wash the walnuts, longan meat and red dates to remove impurities, and then wash the soaked red beans, lotus seeds, rice, millet, and red peanuts together.

4. Put all the ingredients in a casserole, add 1800ml of drinking water, boil on high heat and turn to low heat to simmer for about 1 hour. Use a spoon to stir in the middle to prevent sticking to the pan.

5. Watching the various ingredients in the casserole slurp, cook until the rice grains bloom and become soft and waxy, the beans are crispy, and the porridge becomes thicker and thicker. If you like to drink sweet porridge, you can also add some rock sugar to taste.

Tips:
1. The ingredients for Laba Congee can be matched according to your own eating habits. If you don't want to bother, the supermarket will have a good Laba Congee rice every year near the Laba Festival, so you can buy it directly.
2. Beans are harder and not easy to cook. It is best to soak them in advance before cooking, which can greatly save the time for cooking porridge.
3. If you like to drink sweet porridge, you can add some white sugar or rock sugar to taste. In fact, you can leave it alone. The red dates and longans taste very sweet, and the sugar-free original taste is healthier.