What are the raw materials of authentic Eight Treasure Porridge?

The main ingredients of Eight Treasures Porridge are: barley rice, white kidney beans, adzuki beans, mung beans, rice, millet, yellow rice, jujubes, chestnuts, peanuts, jujubes, almonds, walnuts, lotus seeds, lilies, cinnamon, raisins, soybeans, corn, silver fungus, lotus seeds, goji berries.

The original meaning of "Eight Treasures Porridge" is to make porridge with eight different ingredients. But today. Many "eight treasures congee" ingredients have been more than eight. "Eight treasures porridge" is generally round-grained rice, glutinous rice or black glutinous rice as the main ingredients, and then add supplementary ingredients, such as mung beans, adzuki beans, lentils, white lentils, jujubes, peach kernels, peanuts, lotus seeds, cinnamon, pine nuts, yams, lilies, wolfberries, fructus cornutum, Job's tears and other boiled into a porridge.

People in different parts of our country according to their own dietary favorite, choose different ingredients. Different brands of cans, "eight treasures porridge" its ingredients are different. But basically four categories of raw materials: rice, beans, dried fruit, Chinese herbs. Family simmered "eight treasures porridge", and sometimes add chestnuts, carrots, sausages, salted meat and so on.

Expanded information:

Types of Eight Treasures congee:

1, Lapa congee

Lapa congee is traditionally made by picking up and washing barley rice, white kidney beans, adzuki beans, mung beans and so on and cooking them to half-cooked, and then putting in rice, millet, Yellow rice, and then simmering, is the porridge thin and thick, eaten with sugar, and mixed with pre-cooked jujubes, chestnuts and so on. Generally there are peanuts, dates, almonds, walnuts, chestnuts, lotus seeds, lilies, cinnamon Yuan meat, raisins, and a variety of rice and beans and other components.

2, corn and eight treasures porridge

Corn porridge is unique to the Northeast food, is to peel the umbilical corn kernels (hereinafter referred to as corn kernels) based on the addition of kidney beans cooked and become. Eight Treasures Corn Porridge is a porridge based on corn porridge with red dates, peanuts, black beans, pumpkin chunks, fungus and cinnamon.

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