Laba Congee
by Yi Xiao Yanran
Favorite
Difficulty
Easy
Time
1h
Serving
3
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, our people have the custom of eating Laba porridge. Laba porridge was cooked with red adzuki beans and glutinous rice in ancient times, and the ingredients gradually increased. The Southern Song dynasty carefully wrote "Old Wulin Things", saying: "Using walnuts, pine nuts, milk mushrooms, persimmon mushrooms, persimmon chestnuts to make porridge, it is called'laba porridge'." So far, people in the vast areas of the south, northeast, and northwest of our country still retain the custom of eating Laba porridge, which is rare in Guangdong. The materials used are different, and glutinous rice, red beans, dates, chestnuts, peanuts, ginkgo, lotus seeds and lilies are often used to cook sweet porridge. It is also cooked with longan, longan meat, and candied fruit. Eating a bowl of steaming laba porridge in winter is delicious and nutritious, and it can really increase your health and life.
