Eight treasure porridge, also known as Laba porridge, Buddha porridge, is a typical traditional food in China, it is made of eight different raw materials to make porridge, the taste is extremely rich. Generally, glutinous rice and black rice are used as the main ingredients, and then auxiliary materials are added, such as red beans, red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, etc. to make porridge. The eight ingredients of eight treasure porridge are actually not fixed, in different places, people choose the eight kinds of ingredients are also different, they will choose the raw materials for the appetite according to their own diet.
There are many versions of the origin of the Eight Treasures Porridge, one of which interests me, and it is related to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Emperor. Legend has it that when Zhu Yuanzhang was not yet emperor, in a battle, he ran to the broken temple, when he was particularly hungry, in order to alleviate hunger, the soldiers began to look for food, and later found eight grains in the rat hole and made porridge for Zhu Yuanzhang to drink. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he remembered the past, he called the life-saving food Eight Treasures Porridge, and later it was passed down
Eight treasure porridge is a particularly nutritious porridge, because it contains a variety of ingredients, thickness and fine collocation, nutritional balance, the use of cereals and beans to form protein complementarity, and finally add the seasoning of rock sugar, so that delicious and nutrition are readily available, it can be said to be a very good health porridge, especially in the autumn cold, plus the weather is dry, if at this time can come a bowl of hot eight treasure porridge, relieve the stomach and nutrition, the benefits are many.
The production of eight treasure porridge is not difficult, as long as the raw material selection is good, then the cooked porridge taste will naturally not be bad, then today I will share my family's eight treasure porridge recipe to you, the raw material selection and ratio inside is what I tried to do after 10 times, the finished product taste is very good, friends after eating the taste is absolutely amazing, not lost to the outside sale.
【Eight treasure porridge】
Prepare the main ingredients, 30 grams of kidney beans, 120 grams of glutinous rice, 30 grams of red beans, 60 grams of lotus seeds, 12 dates, 30 grams of peanuts, 50 grams of black rice, and 20 grams of barley
In the first step, after all the ingredients are washed, all the ingredients except the dates are poured into a bowl and soaked in water for 2 hours. If you are not in a hurry to eat, you can soak in the night.
In the second step, pour the soaked ingredients into the rice cooker together with the dates and add 1600ml of water. The porridge I boiled out of this amount of water is a little thick, and if you want to drink a little thinner eight treasure porridge, you can add about 200ml of water appropriately.
The third step, then we close the lid, choose the Qiao Kettle rice cooker nutrition steaming function can be.
Step 4: Cook the eight treasure porridge, add the right amount of rock sugar while hot, stir until melted, and enjoy.
Autumn favorite breakfast, 6 yuan to cook a pot, relieve the hunger and warm stomach and nourish, the whole family eats beautifully, you also come to try it?