Recipes tagged "Laba"
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After Laba Festival, it’s New Year. Let’s have a bowl of Laba porridge first~
There is a saying: Children, children, don’t be greedy, after Laba Festival it will be the New Year. However, how can we celebrate the Laba Festival without eating Laba porridge? Cooking Laba porridge is very laborious, but when you eat the delicious Laba porridge, it feels like everything is worth it~
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Peace every year---Laba porridge
Don’t be greedy, little kids, come here and it’s the New Year’s Eve. The annual Laba Festival is here again, and every time it comes to Laba, memories of Laba arise unconsciously. When I was a child, my mother would get up in the morning during Laba! Get up! Today we have Laba sweet porridge! I woke up suddenly to the cry, sweet! Therefore, the sweet source of Laba Festival is always filled with my memory. When you make Laba porridge at home, you can use more or less raw materials and mix it with a variety of grains. Peanuts and black beans are nutritious enough, so there is no need to pay too much attention to it. I dug out everything that could be used to make porridge at home and added it all, and put them all to use. The finer the pieces, the more peace they have.
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Laba Dishes
This Laba dish is definitely a strong local specialty in northern Anhui. Maybe you would say, this is just a carrot, what’s so beautiful about it? That would be totally wrong. I was once so depressed that I couldn't eat anything because I couldn't eat this. Laba dish, commonly known as Biancai. In my hometown, Laba dishes are made about a week in advance and eaten with Laba porridge on the morning of the 8th of the twelfth lunar month. Laba porridge is also different from what everyone knows, it is salty. Post it when I'm done. Almost every family in our village can cook Laba dishes. At this time, the whole village is filled with the smell of Laba dishes. If we find out which family has not done it, neighbors will send it to them. There are often more homes that have not done it than those that have done it. This kind of Laba dish can be eaten until the Chinese New Year. Today's Laba dish, I made it in my own way and made improvements. Because it is traditional to put a lot of salt and vinegar in order to keep it for a long time. We don't eat it that way now, so we use it this way. It's sour, sweet, crisp, tender and refreshing.
Side dishes Pickles with soy sauce -
Pickled garlic
Garlic pickled with light soy sauce has a fresh and salty taste, which is very delicious.
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Taste of the Year: Jade Jasper---Laba Garlic
Along with eating Laba porridge and soaking Laba garlic in Laba, the flavor of the new year is getting richer and richer. Speaking of Laba garlic, according to the old man, the word "garlic" for Laba garlic has the same pronunciation as the word "shuang". This is the day when all businesses close their accounts. Calculate the income and expenditure of the year, and you can see the profit and loss, including foreign debts and foreign debts. All must be calculated clearly on this day. This is what Laba calculation is all about. On Laba day, a creditor who wants to pay a debt has to deliver a message to someone who owes him money, so he should be prepared to pay back the money. There is a folk proverb in Beijing: Laba porridge, Laba garlic, those who pay debts deliver letters, and those who owe debts pay back. Later, some people who owed money to others used garlic instead of counting to express their taboo and avoid the counting character for settling accounts. In fact, what you owe others must be paid back after all. There is also a saying: It is said that it is very embarrassing for people who did business in the early years to come to ask for accounts at the end of each year. A shrewd businessman had an idea. On Laba day, he pickled a lot of small jars of garlic. When the debt was due at the end of the year, he took a small jar of Laba garlic to the debtor's house and asked what he was missing for the New Year. Short of what? I just didn’t mention the matter of collecting accounts. When I got there, I took out a small jar and said, it’s the Chinese New Year and I don’t have anything to bring with me. I brought a jar of Laba garlic and I wanted to have a good meal of dumplings during the Chinese New Year. Because garlic has the same pronunciation as calculation, the debtor naturally thought that everyone had worked hard for a year and it was time to settle the debt, so he took the initiative to settle the debt. This incident became popular as soon as it spread to ten people and hundreds of people. However, this Laba garlic has continued to this day, and has lost its original meaning of collecting accounts. Instead, it adds a festive color to the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival.
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Instant Laba Garlic
Soaking Laba garlic is a custom in our north. As the name suggests, garlic is made on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The ingredients are very simple, just garlic cloves and vinegar. The method is also very simple. Just put the peeled garlic cloves into a sealable jar, bottle or other container, then pour the vinegar, seal the mouth and put it in a cold place. Slowly, the garlic soaked in vinegar will turn green, and eventually it will become completely green, like emerald jasper. In the past, people said that the color of garlic was not green because it was not Laba day. That's not the case at all. The reaction of soaking garlic in vinegar is that the green garlic cloves are spicy and sour; vinegar is sour and spicy. Often eating Laba garlic in winter is good for the human body, as it sterilizes and detoxifies. Serve a plate of hot dumplings, dipped in garlic-flavored vinegar, and add a piece of green Laba garlic from time to time. Just thinking about this sight will make your mouth water. The raw materials and preparation of Laba garlic are indeed very simple, but the pickling time is very long, at least ten and a half days. Today I will introduce to you a quick way to pickle Laba garlic. Two days is enough for you to eat crispy and delicious Laba garlic. If you don’t believe it, please read below.
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Laba porridge
The porridge has a delicious aroma, nourishes qi and blood, and strengthens the body.
Porridge Home cooking -
Eight-treasure porridge
Eight-treasure porridge
Porridge Laba -
Shepherd's Purse Dumplings
Learn how to cook Shepherd's Purse Dumplings with Staple food and Home cooking.
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Enjoy Laba in a Simple Way—Qibao Five-flavor Porridge
Today, during the Laba Festival, I will make a simple recipe called "Qibao Five Flavors Porridge". When I first heard the name, I must have thought it would be easy to make! Haha, a simple dish of porridge, with a name and this trick! To attract attention? Snickering, I actually searched for some allusions about Laba porridge on Baidu, and then I found out that Laba porridge is also called Qibao and Five-flavor porridge. Laba porridge is a kind of porridge made from a variety of ingredients during the Laba Festival. It is also called Qibao and five-flavor porridge. Eating Laba porridge to celebrate the harvest has been passed down to this day. The earliest Laba porridge was cooked with red beans. Later, it evolved and became more colorful with local characteristics. Ming'er understands! Listen to the story below! When I was little, I loved listening to my grandma telling stories, and I also heard her telling stories about the origin of Laba porridge. The almighty Du Niang found this story that reminds us to be diligent and thrifty in housekeeping. It is the same as what grandma told. In the early years, there was a family of four, an old couple and two sons. The old couple are very hard-working and work on the crops all year round. Plowing in the spring, hoeing in the summer and harvesting in the autumn, we work diligently towards our days. The various grains stored at home are full in large quantities and small in quantity. There was also a jujube tree in their yard. The old couple cultivated it carefully. The jujubes they produced were crisp and sweet. They sold them at the market and made a lot of money. They lived a very wealthy life. The old couple worked hard to find wives for their two sons. Seeing that the son was reaching the age to marry a wife day by day, and the old couple were getting old, the old father asked the two brothers to plant crops well before his death; the old mother asked the two brothers to take good care of the jujube trees in the yard and save money to save food for marrying a wife. In a family of four, only the two brothers are left to live. When the elder brother saw the food in the big hoard and the small hoard, he said to his younger brother: We have so much food, that’s enough. Let’s take a break this year! The younger brother said: The jujube tree is not in need this year. Anyway, we are not short of jujubes. In this way, the two brothers became more and more lazy and greedy. Just knowing that we eat, drink and have fun year after year, we have used up all the food in a few years. As for the jujube trees in the yard, the dates they bear are not as good as each year. It was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month this year, and there was really nothing to eat at home. What should we do? The elder brother found a small broom, and the younger brother brought a small dustpan, and swept through the gaps between the large and small storage areas where grains were previously stored. A handful of yellow rice grains were swept from here, and a handful of red beans were found from there. In this way, a few handfuls of grains and grains were collected, not much, but a lot of samples. Finally, a few dried red dates were found and cooked together in a pot. After it was cooked, the two brothers ate the porridge made from all kinds of grains. Their eyes looked at each other, and then they remembered what their parents said before they died, and they regretted it extremely. The two brothers tasted the pain of laziness and turned around, and became diligent the next year. Like their parents, they lived a good life in a few years, married a wife, and had children. In order to remember the lesson of laziness and remind people not to forget to live diligently and frugally, from then on, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people would eat porridge mixed with whole grains. Because this day fell on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people called it Laba porridge.
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Have you had porridge today - fragrant Laba porridge
Today is Laba. Customs and habits vary from place to place. We don’t seem to be particularly particular about it. Today, my husband is resting at home. In the morning, while the two slackers were still sleeping in, I got up and started cooking porridge. Because I have a little chubby girl who loves porridge very much, the porridge at home is freshly made every day, but there are always varieties. Because today is Laba, a variety of ingredients are mixed together and cooked, and a little rock sugar is added. It is full of nutrition! After more than an hour of slow cooking in a rice cooker, the resulting bowl of Laba porridge is rich in nutrients, fragrant and delicious. I ate very few staple foods for breakfast and drank two bowls of porridge. I instantly felt that my skin was moisturized and beautiful... The weather in Xi'an today is gloomy. The forecast says there will be light snow tomorrow. I hope the snow will arrive as scheduled tomorrow, which will provide some relief from the recent heavy air pollution. This bowl of fragrant Laba porridge is for everyone who hasn’t had porridge today. I wish everyone a happy Laba porridge!
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Stomach-warming and health-preserving porridge-------[Fragrant and glutinous eight-treasure porridge]
Normally, my family likes to cook these multigrain porridge to drink. It nourishes the stomach, skin, and blood. In short, I don’t need to explain the nutritional benefits, everyone knows it.
Staple food Porridge -
Laba porridge
Learn how to cook Laba porridge with Porridge and Laba.
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Laba Garlic
As the saying goes: If you eat meat but not garlic, your nutrition will be reduced by half. But most people are not willing to accept the spicy taste of garlic and the bad breath it causes after eating it. However, Laba garlic does not have these troubling problems. Instead, it has a sweet and sour fragrance with a slight spiciness. There is a custom in the north of pickling Laba garlic in winter. Laba garlic is garlic pickled with vinegar. The finished product is green in color and tastes sour and slightly spicy. The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is customarily called the twelfth lunar month. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as Laba Festival, is the customary Laba Festival in my country. As the name suggests, Laba garlic is brewed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Peel the garlic cloves, put them into a small jar, immerse them in vinegar and seal them tightly. When they are unsealed on New Year's Eve, the garlic cloves will be bright green and the spiciness will be removed, while the vinegar will also add a lot of garlic flavor. Garlic, spicy, vinegar and sour aroma melt together and hit your nose. It is the best condiment for eating dumplings. The green pigment of Laba garlic is actually composed of a blue pigment produced first and a yellow pigment produced later. Generally, the garlic cloves will slowly turn blue after being pickled for about 3 days, but at this time the garlic cloves still have a spicy taste. After about 10 days when the color turns green, the garlic cloves will no longer have a spicy taste. At this time, the garlic cloves will have a sweet and sour taste. Pickling Laba garlic takes time. You have to wait for the taste of vinegar to slowly penetrate into the inside of the garlic cloves, and wait for the garlic cloves to turn from white to blue, and then turn into emerald green inside under the action of time. At this time, the Laba garlic will be considered complete and full of temptation.
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Laba Garlic---An anti-greasy appetizer for the holiday table
Pickled Laba Garlic is a traditional snack of the Han people that is mainly popular in the north, especially in North China. It is a custom during the Laba Festival. Make garlic on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In fact, the ingredients are very simple, just vinegar and garlic cloves. The method is also extremely simple. Put the peeled garlic cloves into a container that can be sealed, such as a jar or bottle, then pour vinegar into it, seal it and put it in a cold place. Slowly, the garlic soaked in vinegar will turn green, and eventually it will become completely green, like emerald jasper. For old Beijingers, as soon as the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month arrives, the Chinese New Year atmosphere gets stronger day by day. In most parts of North China, there is a custom of soaking garlic in vinegar on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is called Laba garlic. As for the benefits of eating Laba garlic, there are too many. You should check online. There are too many.
Recipes for lazy people Laba -
Laba porridge
Laba porridge is the customary food of Laba. Although it has its allusions, it also has its real meaning. During Laba Seventh and Laba Festival, the temperature is the lowest in the year, and people's physiques also become weaker. However, a simple Laba porridge contains the functions of harmonizing the stomach, tonifying the spleen, nourishing the heart, clearing the lungs, nourishing the kidneys, benefiting the liver, improving eyesight, calming the nerves, and laxative. It can be said to be comprehensive. At the same time, the rich nutrients can enhance the body's immunity and improve the cold tolerance index. This weekend is the Laba Festival, a simple bowl of Laba porridge will warm you.
Staple food Porridge -
Laba porridge
In the past few days, my son has been asking for Laba porridge. The porridge is glutinous and delicious with some sugar added.
Porridge old man -
Laba Date Porridge
Today is the Laba Festival, which is also the time of the Great Cold, and we need a bowl of hot porridge. Making porridge is just a matter of cooking. Nowadays, there are many cooking utensils, so we use rice cookers and electric pressure cookers to save trouble and time, but it also lacks the smoke and smoke. I remember when I was a kid, people had to watch the porridge at home to make sure it didn’t overflow. After the porridge was ready, it would bubble with gurgling bubbles and the whole house would be filled with the aroma of the porridge. It was the warmest taste! Today, no matter what cooking utensils are used, make a bowl of porridge for your family with all your heart to resist the cold weather. I wish you success and peace in the new year!
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Laba Douer Sauce
Laba is a very important day. Not only do you eat Laba porridge, soak Laba garlic, but you also make bean paste. The name Douerjiang is quite interesting. You can’t tell what it is just from the name, but it’s actually an upgraded version of Pork Skin Jelly. Just need to put a few more ingredients in it: dried tofu, carrots, water scallops, soybeans, potatoes, etc., which have always been a must-have cold dish for northerners during the Chinese New Year. When Douerjiang people talk about making Douerjiang, no one talks about making Douerjiang. No one can explain why, but it has to be called that. In the past, every household in old Beijing had to prepare for the New Year. I usually save the skin from the meat when I cook it, so I can save a lot at the end of the year, which can be used just in time. Douerjiang is an ordinary cold dish. It is a bit troublesome and laborious to make, but it can be put away once it is done. It is beaten when the Laba is in season and frozen outside the house. It can be kept for a long time. When eating, it is cut into a small plate and served with Laba vinegar, and some even have ice particles on it. It has a unique taste when paired with wine. There are soy sauce and many ingredients added to the bean paste. After cooling and solidifying, it looks like amber. From the translucent jelly, you can see the beans, dried carrots and beans inside. It is pleasing to the eye and full of Chinese New Year flavor.
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Laba porridge
The bank held a Laba Festival event and received a pack of ingredients to make Laba porridge.
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Barley Oatmeal Laba Porridge
I had guests at home recently, so I started eating the Laba porridge a day in advance. It was not intentional, I just remembered the wrong date, and it took me a few days to post the recipe, so the rhythm was a bit messy! This is a health porridge for removing dampness, using red beans, barley, oats, buckwheat, adzuki beans and rock sugar. Summer is inseparable from air conditioning. People like to drink cold drinks, eat cold dishes, cold beer and various refrigerated watermelons and other raw and cold foods, which are prone to phlegm and dampness. People like to eat hot pot and boil meat in winter. Traditional Chinese medicine says that eating too much meat can also cause phlegm and dampness. If you want to regulate and remove dampness, just use the above types of rice to cook porridge, add a little more water, drink the soup as water, and eat the grains as staple food and side dishes. In line with the solar terms, I added jujube, longan, glutinous rice and millet. Turned into Laba porridge, barley is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine. It is also a common and commonly eaten food. It is sweet and slightly cold in nature. It has the functions of diuretic and swelling, spleen and dampness, soothing muscles and removing paralysis, expelling heat and pus. It is a commonly used diuretic and dampness medicine. In addition, oatmeal, which is high in fiber and low in fat, has good functions of laxative, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, removing edema, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and anti-cancer. Modern people suffer from high mental stress, weak heart Qi, irregular diet, little exercise, and spleen deficiency and dampness. It is necessary to remove dampness, replenish the heart, and nourish the spleen and stomach, and red beans, barley, and oats are among them. With the addition of jujube and longan, it is even better at replenishing the heart and qi. When cooked into porridge, its active ingredients can be fully absorbed by the body without causing any burden on the spleen and stomach.
Porridge old man -
Laba porridge
Learn how to cook Laba porridge with Staple food and Porridge.
Staple food Porridge -
Laba porridge
Today is Laba Festival, so I took the opportunity to make a big pot of Laba porridge in the pressure cooker. It’s so comfortable to drink two big bowls of it warmly! You can also eat more whole grains at ordinary times. You don’t have to wait for Laba Festival to drink this nutritious porridge! I’ll have to cook more rice-treasure porridge from now on!
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Laba Garlic
It’s Laba today, Laba tomorrow, it’s time to pickle Laba garlic! Laba garlic must be served with dumplings on the New Year's dinner table - usually the garlic is pickled on Laba day and opened on New Year's Eve. The garlic cloves are green and the vinegar is fragrant, which goes well with the fragrant dumplings.
Pickles with soy sauce Appetizers -
Laba porridge
On the day of Laba Festival, drinking a bowl of fragrant Laba porridge is the most important ritual of this festival. The ingredients range from a few to more than a dozen, including rice, beans, dried fruits, and nuts. They are rich in nutrients and have beautiful meanings. They must be suitable for the festival and the occasion!
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Laba Vinegar
Laba vinegar is a traditional Laba Festival custom. In northern China, there is a custom of soaking garlic in vinegar on Laba Day, which is called Laba Vinegar. You should soak Laba vinegar until the first day of the Lunar New Year. You should eat dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year. You should eat vegetarian dumplings, which means a year of plainness and purity. Eat them dipped in Laba vinegar and have a unique taste. Green pigment is produced during the production of Laba garlic, an ancient traditional delicacy. Traditionally, many families have the tradition of making Laba garlic. During the twelfth lunar month, the garlic is peeled, washed, peeled, poured with rice vinegar, sealed in a small jar, and unsealed on New Year's Eve to make Laba garlic, which is green and pleasant, fragrant and delicious. Laba garlic is made without sunlight, so the green color produced is not chlorophyll, but garlic green pigment.
Side dishes Pickles with soy sauce -
Laba Garlic
I pickled it a week ago, and today I just eat Laba garlic!
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Laba Garlic
Learn how to cook Laba Garlic with Side dishes and Pickles with soy sauce.
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Laba porridge
[Laba Porridge] Cook the fragrant porridge. This kind of multigrain porridge is cooked on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. It has been done since ancient times. I won’t tell you the origin, it’s a sacrifice, worship to gods, celebration or something else. There is no way to verify the original method, and the interpretation will be different in each household, but the need to eat this special meal on this day has never changed. Country people have the simple wishes of country people, that is, they hope that their families will be healthy, their crops will be abundant, and their livestock will be prosperous. Therefore, not only the whole family must eat Laba rice porridge, but also the trees in the yard, the livestock and the crops in the field must taste Laba rice porridge. When we were young, we didn’t get everything we wanted like we do now. On Laba day, my mother usually used corn grits and noodles and some kind of beans to make a weird salty rice called Laba rice. I can still vaguely remember the taste of this kind of rice. I will go back and ask my mother for the specific recipe and copy it once. Today's Laba porridge uses eight kinds of ingredients, which are very casually matched. If these foods happen to be available, they are used.
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Sweet and Sour Laba Garlic
Learn how to cook Sweet and Sour Laba Garlic with Snacks and Pickles with soy sauce.
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Steamed Pork with Laba Beans
The most nourishing thing is simple food and simple food, and plain food is the real thing. Record every bit of life.
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Laba noodles
Today is Laba Festival, what can you eat at home? Laba Festival is a traditional festival in my country and the most important festival in the twelfth lunar month. On this day, there are many different customs and habits in various places. Almost every family will drink a bowl of Laba porridge to worship ancestors and gods and pray for a good harvest and good luck. Although I am from the north, I have never eaten Laba noodles in my whole life. I checked online and found that Laba noodles are popular in the Guanzhong area. In the Chengcheng area in the Weibei area of Shaanxi Province, Laba noodles are generally not eaten as porridge. Every year on the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household eats a bowl of Laba noodles. It sounds fresh and fun, so this year during Laba, let’s learn from Shaanxi people and copy Laba noodles. There are not many ways to make Laba noodles on the Internet, and they are all different, so just copy it and feel free to use it. I made the noodles into diamond-shaped wide noodles, which is a bit like the way my hometown makes noodles. I feel that this can better reflect the ruggedness of the north. The stir-fried saozi uses pork, dried tofu, white radish, carrots, soybeans, mushrooms, fungus, day lily... It is very rich. Put the noodles in a pot of boiling water, put them in a large bowl after cooking, then scoop two tablespoons of saozi, stir them up, and the fragrant Laba noodles are ready. On this cold day, serving a bowl of tempting noodles, how can it be called fragrant...
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Pineapple rice pudding
Sweet rice is indispensable at the New Year’s Eve dinner. If you are tired of eating traditional sweet rice, changing the style and taste is like changing your mood. Pineapple steamed rice is a particularly delicious thing. In addition to being sweet, it also has the fragrance of pineapple. It’s not difficult to do.
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Gansu Salted Laba
The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in my country - Laba Festival. The vast areas south of the Yangtze River, northeast and northwest China still retain the custom of drinking Laba porridge on Laba day. Laba porridge is made from eight kinds of fresh grains and fruits harvested that year. It is generally a sweet porridge. However, many farmers in Shaanxi, northern Shaanxi, and Gansu regions like to eat Laba salty porridge. On this day, in addition to eating Laba porridge for your family, you also need to feed some to livestock, chickens and dogs, and put some on doors, walls, and trees for good luck.
Staple food Porridge -
Laba porridge
Today is a severe cold, and it also happens to be the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The most representative food of the Laba Festival is Laba porridge. Boil a pot of fragrant and hot Laba porridge and drink a bowl of it, which is both suitable for the occasion and warm up! A friend asked me which eight ingredients are the most authentic in Laba porridge? In fact, the ingredients of Laba porridge are not limited to a certain eight kinds. Traditional Laba porridge includes three major categories of ingredients: cereals, beans and fruits. As long as you choose eight or more kinds of ingredients to make porridge according to your own preferences, it will be the Laba porridge that suits you best! I remember there was a nursery rhyme when I was a kid: Don’t be greedy, little kid, it’s the New Year after Laba. The big cold is coming, Laba is coming, and the Spring Festival is getting closer. This year has been very difficult for everyone. Don’t forget to drink a steaming bowl of Laba porridge tomorrow, which warms the heart and nourishes the stomach. I wish everyone all the best in the coming year.
Porridge Laba -
Pickled garlic
Now is the time to pickle the garlic. Eating steamed buns and noodles with sweet and sour pickled garlic will leave you with endless aftertaste...
Preparing meals Laba -
Laba noodles
Being in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province, we eat Laba noodles on Laba day. The ingredients used are both meat and vegetable, and the soup is rich and delicious. A spoonful of toppings is placed on top of the noodles and mixed well. The taste is really great. The noodles are chewy and the soup is delicious and not greasy. After one bowl, you will be full of energy.
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Laba Garlic
Laba garlic, as the name suggests, is garlic soaked on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The soaked garlic must be placed in a cooler place to allow it to absorb the flavor and change color little by little, until the white garlic turns into emerald green. The brown vinegar also became darker in color and stronger in flavor, with the spicy flavor of garlic melted into it. This garlic is best opened on the night of New Year’s Eve and used with Chinese New Year dumplings. It’s quite delicious!
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Laba porridge
Baidu: Laba porridge is a kind of porridge made from a variety of ingredients during the Laba Festival. It is used to pray for good weather in the coming year and ensure a good agricultural harvest. Laba porridge combines food from all directions and cooks it with rice in one pot, which means to bring together all things and harmonize thousands of spirits. It is said that the founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, practiced asceticism for six years and attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Laba has become the anniversary of Buddha's enlightenment. Laba is a grand Buddhist festival. In Henan, Laba porridge, also known as everyone’s rice, is a festive food custom in memory of the national hero Yue Fei. Another legend says that after the death of Zhuanxu, one of the Five Ancient Emperors, his three sons turned into evil spirits and came out to scare their children. In ancient times, people generally believed in superstition and were afraid of ghosts and gods. Adults believed that children suffering from strokes and being in poor health were caused by the plague and ghosts during the Laba Festival. These evil ghosts are not afraid of anything but red beans, so there is a saying that red beans beat ghosts. Therefore, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, porridge is made with red beans and adzuki beans to ward off epidemics and welcome good luck. The ingredients of Laba porridge vary depending on the local products. The ingredients of today's Laba porridge are determined by personal taste, and sugar or salt can be added. Chinese people love Laba porridge. In addition to being a popular food, it is also a good health food. A simple piece of Laba porridge contains the functions of harmonizing the stomach, tonifying the spleen, nourishing the heart, clearing the lungs, nourishing the kidneys, benefiting the liver, improving eyesight, calming the nerves, and laxatives. It can be said to be comprehensive. At the same time, the rich nutrients can enhance the body's immunity and improve the cold tolerance index.
Staple food Porridge -
Babao Pumpkin
I can't always think of something to eat to enhance the taste. This meal makes me hungry even if I don't eat it, and I want to eat it but have no appetite. It really gives every housewife a headache. That day, while eating eight-treasure rice dumplings, I remembered that there was a small pumpkin at home for steaming rice. Children would definitely like it. Just do it as soon as you think of it, soak rice and beans, because black rice and beans are ingredients that are not easy to cook, so the preparations have to be done in advance.
Staple food Home cooking -
Laba Garlic
Have you ever tasted this kind of green garlic? First of all, don't worry, this is not because the garlic is bad, but because it has changed its flavor. Yes, the taste has changed, it has become sweet and sour. So, its color also changed. Ordinary garlic is warm in nature, will generate heat when eaten in excess, and may cause local irritation. Therefore, people with yin deficiency and excessive fire, as well as those with vision, mouth, and tongue diseases, should not eat it. However, Laba garlic does not have these taboos.
Pickles with soy sauce Festival customs -
Laba porridge
The great cold meets the Laba Festival, the hot porridge and the fragrant smell bid farewell to the old moon, and warm people's hearts in winter to welcome the new year. In the new year, we will continue to be with our family through thick and thin. The Great Cold of Laba falls on the same day, so this is probably the best start to 2021. No matter how cold the weather is, there is warmth in our hearts, allowing us to always move towards a happy and beautiful life... The Laba porridge in our memory is the warmth of home and the taste of the New Year. It’s the steamy kitchen in the morning, the hazy breath on the glass, the hot bowl in the hands, the laughter of the sisters playing and playing, the kind eyes of the father, the mother and grandma guarding the stove... Dear, have you eaten Laba porridge? 😁Happy morning! Happy Laba Festival! 🌹🌹
Porridge Home cooking -
Brown sugar, garlic
This sugar garlic was pickled when the new garlic came on the market. The picture of the finished product was taken after it had been pickled for 2 months. At that time, it felt like the season had passed and it had not been released. Participating in the food competition, I feel that this recipe needs to be posted so that friends who like sweet garlic can save it in advance and make some by themselves when the new garlic comes out tomorrow. My family's sugar garlic is a family recipe, and friends all say it's delicious after eating it. There are three recipes: brown sugar, white sugar and rock sugar plus honey. This brown sugar recipe has a flavor that I prefer. It is not only delicious in color, but also tastes good, and the texture is also very good. Choose brown sugar that is yellowish in color and lighter in color. The color of the finished product will look better. Dark brown sugar can also be used. The taste is basically the same, but the color will be darker.
Cold dishes children -
Lily Laba Porridge
I rarely celebrate the Laba Festival since I was a child. So I forgot about this holiday again. I was looking at all kinds of Laba delicacies in the circle of friends, and then I remembered that it was already around noon. By the way, I looked up the meaning of eating Laba porridge online. In addition to the meaning of sacrifice, prayer, and commemoration, it also means: warmth, completeness, harmony, auspiciousness, health, cooperation, nutrition, indifference, convenience, gratitude, joy (replacing porridge for tea), bonding, etc. The important thing is that there is a story of having more than enough every year. With so many good intentions, we should also inherit the custom. The cooking methods and ingredients have been passed down from generation to generation, and they are no longer so particular.
Porridge old man -
Savory Laba Porridge
As a Sichuanese, I grew up eating salty Laba porridge. I used to see my grandma start preparing the ingredients on the first day. She would wake her up at around 6 o'clock in the morning for Laba. As soon as I entered the kitchen, I saw her using a big wood pot to cook a big pot of Laba porridge for two days. Later, the big firewood pot was gone, and grandma was gone, and I no longer had that feeling. When I told my parents-in-law, they both said that they had never eaten salty food, and they all eat sweet food in the Northeast. I made it today for them to try.
Staple food Porridge -
Laba porridge
It’s Laba Festival again, so cook a pot of glutinous porridge to start a wonderful day.
Porridge Home cooking -
Fruity Laba Porridge
As we have said, Laba porridge is the Chinese New Year. I want to try a new twist on this year’s Laba porridge. It’s not too satisfying to eat the same old ones all the time. So I added apples to it. This is not the first time that I have used apples in porridge. I have cooked it with apples, red beans and rice before, and my children like it better. Therefore, it is most important to know what your children and family members like. Now I invite all my friends to taste it together. If you like it, you can also refer to it. This kind of porridge does not necessarily have to be eaten during the Laba Festival. You can cook a portion if you want to eat it at ordinary times.
Staple food Porridge -
Laba Garlic
The health effects of vinegar: 1. Sterilize, antibacterial, increase appetite, help digestion, regulate blood sugar, prevent obesity, and promote sodium excretion. 2. Vinegar can also induce hypnosis. After a long journey, if you are overworked and have difficulty sleeping at night, you can add a spoonful of vinegar to warm boiled water and take it slowly. Close your eyes after a meal and you will fall asleep soon. 3. Anti-hypertension, beauty, antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-cancer, liver disease prevention and fatigue relief. The health effects of garlic: 1. Anti-oxidant, anti-aging, anti-tumor, enhances liver detoxification function, enhances the body's immune function, and has brain-building effects. 2. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, anti-platelet aggregation, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood sugar, and can thin the blood. 3. Reduce high blood pressure, lower cholesterol, eliminate fatigue, restore physical strength, and make blood flow smoothly.
Pickles with soy sauce Private kitchen -
Not sweet rice pudding
When talking about rice pudding, a plate of sweet rice pudding with red dates, dried fruits and red bean paste immediately comes to mind. The traditional rice pudding is steamed with glutinous rice, dried fruits, red dates, red bean paste, etc. My family usually makes a home-cooked eight-treasure rice. The main ingredient is rice, with walnut kernels, glutinous rice, barley, red dates, etc. added. The method is the same as the usual rice-making process. The ingredients are not limited to 8 kinds (more or less), and it has a certain nourishing effect. Many southern friends in the circle of friends said that they would stew a pot of eight-treasure rice like this during holidays, and they would often do this to increase nutrition. The ingredients for this home-style rice pudding are similar to those of Laba porridge. If you don’t have time to cook Laba porridge during the Laba Festival, you can make a pot of rice pudding, which is much simpler and less troublesome than cooking porridge.
Staple food Laba -
Eight-treasure porridge
Learn how to cook Eight-treasure porridge with Porridge and Home cooking.
Porridge Home cooking