"Children, don't be greedy, after Laba Festival it will be the New Year." Here is the detailed guide to Laba porridge!

Laba Festival is coming soon. After Laba Festival, we can really start counting the days to prepare for the Chinese New Year. If we talk about the most indispensable thing in Laba Festival, it must be Laba porridge. Speaking of drinking porridge on Laba Festival, you won’t believe it, there is really a story behind it.

Legend has it that Laba Festival originated from the memory of Yue Fei. In Zhuxian Town, Yue Fei led his troops to fight against the Jin army. It was the coldest time of the year, and the common people rushed to send him porridge. Yue's army returned victorious after a hearty meal. That day happened to be the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. After Yue Fei's death, in order to commemorate him, the people cooked porridge with grains, beans and fruits every Laba Festival, which eventually became a custom.

In fact, there are some differences between the north and south in terms of Laba porridge. In the north, sweet Laba porridge is indispensable. The most particular one is the Laba porridge in Beijing and Tianjin, which usually contains rice, beans and dates, and is usually mixed with lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, longans, peanuts, etc.

In the south, in addition to the sweet Laba porridge with walnut kernels, pine nuts, lotus seeds, red dates, longan meat, lychee meat, etc., the salty Laba porridge with vegetables and cooking oil is also equally popular.

Whether in the south or the north, Laba Festival is a day for family reunion. On this day, families will get together to make Laba porridge or other delicacies and enjoy the warmth and joy of the family.

Today I recommend you a very homely version of Laba porridge. In fact, the ingredients of Laba porridge are very random, and you can adjust the types and proportions of ingredients according to the ingredients you have at home and your preferences.

Drink a bowl of Laba porridge and start preparing for the Chinese New Year~

Material:

Red dates, walnuts, wolfberries, white fungus, lotus seeds, rice, glutinous rice, black rice, red rice, corn, mung beans, kidney beans, white beans, red beans, rock sugar

step:

1. Put all the ingredients except rock sugar, white fungus and walnuts into the pot, wash them 2-3 times with clean water to remove impurities.

2. Add walnuts and white fungus to the cleaned ingredients, soak them in cold water for 2 hours, then put them in the rice cooker and press the porridge function.

3. After finishing, add rock sugar and stir until the rock sugar melts.