Today is Lapa Ba, and the shops on the street have posted menus serving Lapa Porridge, accompanied by light snow falling from the sky, which is indeed a festive atmosphere.
As the standard of the Lapa Festival, Lapa Porridge occupies an important position, but the earliest Lapa Porridge was only cooked with red beans, and later evolved, coupled with local characteristics, it gradually became colorful. Nowadays, Laba porridge is not limited to eight kinds of raw materials, but in general, a good pot of porridge is indispensable to glutinous rice, red dates, kidney beans and peanuts.
If you want to boil a pot of good porridge, then you need to pay special attention to the selection of raw materials, so where do these good raw materials come from? What kind of good is it? Xiaobian takes you to inventory one by one.
Glutinous rice in the north is often called river rice, glutinous rice has white and purple points, white glutinous rice and long glutinous rice and round glutinous rice, the origin of long glutinous rice in the south, round glutinous rice is more prolific and northern, and purple glutinous rice is a more precious variety, also known as black glutinous rice, blood glutinous rice, China only Sichuan, Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan have a small amount of planting, but the most famous is still Yunnan Mojiang.
Mojiang County is the Tropic of Cancer through the city through the place, unique location advantages, special geographical environment, is called "yin and yang junction", while creating a rich biological resources and famous products in Mojiang County, in many famous products, especially the reputation of Mojiang purple rice is very large, has always been called Gongmi, Oda rouge rice and elderberry rice, so the rich production of purple rice Mojiang County is known as the hometown of purple rice.
There are many varieties of red dates in China, and there are many places of origin, such as Xinjiang, Shanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, etc. are all major provinces that produce dates. However, there are not many people who can make dates into their own characteristic industries. Today, Xiaobian introduces you to the red jujube town of Xinzheng Mengzhuang Town, Henan.
Mengzhuang Town is located in Xinzheng City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, with a total population of 41,000 people and a total area of 83 square kilometers. The location is superior, located in the corner of Zhengzhou, the capital city of Henan Province, and Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport, the largest airport in the Central Plains. The Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway and the Beijing-Guangzhou Electrified Railway run through the north and south, and the provincial secondary highway from Xinmi City to Zhongmu County crosses the east and west, and there are both international airports and national two-pole railway marshalling stations in the territory.
Mengzhuang Town is the main production area of the famous Xinzheng red jujube, the national name of the "high-quality jujube base" and the Chinese famous special economic forest "red jujube town", the existing jujube forest 72,000 mu, more than 1.9 million jujube trees, the annual output of red jujube 15 million kilograms; has the country's largest jujube distribution center - China Jujube Trade City, cultivating "good to think of you", "jujube gift" and other well-known brands, jujube industrialization system has been formed.
In Laba porridge, beans occupy almost the same important position as glutinous rice, and the quality of beans directly determines the taste of a pot of porridge. The kidney beans have a delicate and dense taste, and are often the preferred choice for laba porridge beans. Among the production areas of kidney beans in China, the black-flowered kidney beans in Lanping, Yunnan are a good choice.
Lanping black flower kidney beans are bright in color, good gloss, full of grains and rich in nutrients. In 1983, it was rated as a high-quality product at the National Foreign Trade Export Exhibition, and won the quality product certificate of the Ministry of Economy and Trade, mainly exported to Japan and Southeast Asia, and the export volume accounted for about one-third of the total export volume of Yunnan Province.
Lanping production of black flower kidney beans mainly because of its own geographical environment, Lanping County mountainous, semi-mountain forest coverage rate of up to 70-80%, good water quality, pollution-free, large temperature difference between day and night, high accumulation of dry matter of crops, soil is mostly sandy loam, natural and agricultural ecological environment is good, ecological diversity is high, natural factors have a strong ability to control damage, air, water, soil pollution-free, pesticides, fertilizers are applied very little, so the quality of kidney beans produced is excellent.
After talking about the origin of the raw materials of these porridges, do you feel that the porridge in your bowl is not easy?
After drinking lapa porridge, let's wait for the New Year!