The first meal of the Laba Festival in Shanxi - red silk rice

Overview

It's Laba Festival again. As the saying goes, after Laba Festival, it's the New Year. Accordingly, I also have the expectation to go home. Because the distance between my mother's family and my husband's family is too far, I made a rule with my husband before marriage that the Chinese New Year will take turns, one year to my mother's family, one year to my mother-in-law's family, and this year I will go back to my mother's home, Shanxi. Although there are still more than twenty days until the New Year, I can’t wait for it. I was so homesick that I even made Laba porridge according to the customs of my hometown. The Laba porridge of Shanxi people is mainly made of millet, with red dates and red beans as ingredients. It is sweet and glutinous in the mouth, also known as red thick rice. The first meal of the Little Laba Festival is red thick rice. There is a saying in my hometown that if you don't eat red thick rice in the morning, you will get 'pink eye'. I still don’t know what pinkeye is, but I’ve never been without red rice. It’s soft, glutinous, and sweet. How can I not love it?

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• old man
• breakfast
• fried rice
• winter recipes
• shanxi cuisine
• shanxi snacks
• brown sugar
• red beans
• red dates
• xiaomi

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash all the prepared ingredients, soak the millet for about 30 minutes, and set aside;

   

2. 2 Put enough water in the pot, add red beans, bring to a boil over high heat, turn to low heat, and simmer until the red beans peel and the water turns black and red;

   

3. 3 Add millet and red dates and continue to cook until all water is absorbed;

   

4. 4 Add brown sugar to the cooked porridge, rub it with the back of a spoon until the millet becomes sticky, and it is ready to serve.