Laba Congee

Name: Laba Congee
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: Some red bean; Some Black beans; Some peanut; Some Barley; Some Lotus seed; Some Red dates; Some Glutinous rice; Some black rice; a little crystal sugar

by Teacher Kong teaches cooking

4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

2h

Serving

4

"Laba a bowl of porridge, a good sign next year" It seems that every solar term is related to food. Tomorrow is the Laba Festival. Prepare the ingredients for the porridge to soak overnight. In the morning, enjoy this warm Laba porridge with your family!

There are many legends of Laba porridge. Some said it was a "heart-warming porridge" that saved Zhu Yuanzhang who was cold and hungry, some said it was a "Buddha porridge" that commemorated Sakyamuni's suffering and prayed for protection, and some said it was to commemorate Yue Fei. "Thousands of congee" and so on, but no matter what kind, they are full of people's beautiful wishes.

The main ingredients of Laba porridge are grains, so it has high nutritional value. It is not only a custom and delicacy, but also a good health food. It has the functions of harmonizing the stomach, nourishing the spleen, nourishing the heart, clearing the lungs, nourishing the kidneys, replenishing the liver, reducing thirst, improving eyesight, laxative, soothing the nerves, etc. It can also be cooked and eaten at ordinary times.

Ingredients

Some Red Bean
Some Black Beans
Some Peanut
Some Barley
Some Lotus Seed
Some Red Dates
Some Glutinous Rice
Some Black Rice
a little Crystal Sugar

Laba Congee

1. Wash all ingredients with clean water.

2. Pour into the pot and add half of the pot of water. (Be sure to add enough water at a time, because adding water later will not only affect the aroma of the porridge, but also make the porridge thicker)

3. After the fire is boiled, add a few rock sugars, turn to low heat and cook slowly for 2 hours. (If you soak the hard-boiled ingredients such as adzuki beans one day in advance, you can cook them for about 30 minutes in the morning.)

4. Cook until the laba porridge is sticky and the ingredients are soft and rotten.

5. Eat a bowl while it's hot, it's warm and sweet~

Tips:
Tips:

1. If you have diabetes in your family, you can cook without sugar. You can add sugar to the sweet ones you want to eat at the end.

2. The ingredients of Laba porridge are not fixed. You can replace them with yam, oats, walnuts, dried longans, raisins and other ingredients according to your own situation. In fact, the amount can also be determined according to personal preference, just grab a small handful of each.

3. For patients with frequent insomnia, adding some longan meat and jujube seed to the porridge will have a good effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves; Polygonum multiflorum and wolfberry have the effect of prolonging life, and also have an auxiliary regulating effect on blood lipids. Good food therapy for people; oatmeal has the effect of reducing blood cholesterol concentration. After eating oatmeal, it can slow down the rise of blood sugar level. Adding oatmeal to carbohydrate food can inhibit the increase of blood sugar level. Therefore, it is good for diabetes and diabetes with cardiovascular disease. Patients may wish to put some oatmeal in the porridge; jujube is also a good food therapy for replenishing qi and blood, and invigorating the spleen. It has a certain effect on spleen and stomach weakness, blood deficiency and chlorosis, and lung deficiency and cough.