What to eat on Laba Festival? How to make laba porridge?

What to eat on Laba Festival? Let's introduce some traditional food of Laba Festival first.

(1) Laba porridge

Laba porridge

working methods

1. Wash the eight-treasure porridge first (there are ready-made eight-treasure porridge packages in the supermarket).

2. Then soak for about 3 hours. Generally, you can soak before going to bed at night and cook porridge in the morning.

3. Pour the soaked water into the rice cooker.

4. Generally, the ratio of rice to water is 1:4. If you like to eat thin food, you can add more water and set the porridge button.

5. It is advisable to cook and eat 1 small bowl at a time. You can add sugar or salt.

Nutritional efficacy of Laba porridge

Labazhou material

1, what's for Laba Festival? The raw material of eight-treasure porridge is also rice or glutinous rice (main ingredient), as well as millet, mung bean, adzuki bean, walnut kernel, peanut, jujube, yam, lotus seed and so on. It is rich in protein, lysine, fatty acids, various trace elements and vitamins.

2. Millet: Every 100g millet contains 9.7g of protein, which is higher than rice. Fat 1.7 g, carbohydrate 76. 1 g, all not lower than rice and wheat. Generally, the content of carotene in millet is per 100g 0. 12mg, and the content of vitamin B 1 ranks first among all cereals.

3. Mung beans: The content of protein in mung beans is almost three times that of japonica rice, and there are more inorganic salts such as vitamins, calcium, phosphorus and iron than japonica rice. Therefore, it not only has good edible value, but also has very good medicinal value, and is called "the food of the world".

4. adzuki bean: adzuki bean is rich in starch, so it is also called "Mi Dou". Adzuki bean contains many nutrients. Every100g adzuki bean contains protein 21.7g, fat 0.8g, carbohydrate 60.7g, calcium 76mg, phosphorus 386mg, iron 4.5mg, thiamine 0.43mg, riboflavin 0./kloc-0.6mg and nicotinic acid 2./kloc-0.

5. Walnut kernel: Walnut kernel is a popular snack. It is rich in protein, fatty acids, B vitamins, vitamin E, calcium, magnesium, selenium and other nutrients. It can prevent cell aging, strengthen brain, enhance memory, delay aging, reduce the absorption of cholesterol in intestine, moisturize skin and blacken hair. It is especially suitable for people with arteriosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease and mental workers, and has the function of relieving fatigue and stress.

Laba traditional food

6. Peanut: Peanut is good at nourishing and helping to prolong life, so it is also called "longevity fruit" by the people, and it is also called "vegetable meat" and "vegetarian meat" like soybeans. The nutritional value of peanuts is higher than that of cereals, and it can be compared with some animal foods such as eggs, milk and meat. It contains a lot of protein and fat, especially unsaturated fatty acids, and is suitable for making various nutritious foods.

7. Jujube: The sugar content of jujube is as high as 65%. Every 100g jujube contains vitamin C300-600 mg, and is also rich in protein, fat, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, sodium, magnesium, chlorine, iodine, nicotinic acid, vitamin A, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, etc. In addition to nutritional value, jujube has high medicinal value, which can benefit the heart and moisten the lungs, harmonize the spleen and stomach, invigorate qi and promote fluid production, promote qi and blood circulation, and beauty beauty.

8. Yam: Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is beneficial to the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach. It is a dual-purpose product of medicine and food. Both spleen yang deficiency and stomach yin deficiency can be eaten.

9. Lotus seeds: Lotus seeds contain a lot of starch, raffinose, protein, fat, aspartame, calcium, phosphorus and iron. Can not be eaten by people with spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite or diarrhea; Diarrhea due to spleen deficiency or turbid urine, which women bring down; Nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, frequent urination; Lack of support, boredom, insomnia, etc

(2) Labadou

Spicy labadou

working methods

1. Wash the soybeans, skim off the empty skins and residual particles, soak them in cold water, take them out, add water to the pot (boiling water should cover the soybeans by one inch), cook them with high fire first, and then cook them with low fire.

2. Take the beans out of the water (put some salt in the boiled bean water for later use), spread them out and put them in a cloth bag.

3. Put the cloth bag into a straw bag or other container, wrap it with straw or cotton wool and keep it warm at about 20 degrees Celsius. After about 2-3 days, the soybean becomes hot, and the white mold ferments and grows, and it is taken out and cooled.

4. Then put the beans into a bowl (pottery basin) and add the boiled water of the original beans; Add the right amount of ingredients, add 50 grams of salt and 2 yuan pepper per catty of soybeans, add the right amount of fresh ginger, and mix well with 5 yuan Chili powder if you like spicy food; If the salty taste is not enough when stirring, you can add some salt and finally add some white wine to mix well.

5. Take a jar, clean the jar with white wine, put the evenly stirred beans into the jar, seal the jar mouth, and take food after 10. Laba beans can be served with steamed, boiled, fried and other dishes. Vegetarian method is delicious with dinner.

Characteristics of laba bean

laba beans

Laba bean is one of the traditional foods in China and Hunan Province, with a history of hundreds of years. Most people start cooking beans and curing them on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (that is, Laba Festival) every year, and eat them the next year. Because it is usually pickled on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, it is called "Laba bean". Its finished product has a special flavor and is extremely delicious, so it is very popular with people. However, since ancient times, it has always been a family or small workshop-style production, and it cannot be a food that consumers can enjoy all year round due to seasonal restrictions.

(3), stick fire spoon

Sticking fire spoon

As the saying goes, it's too cold in Laba, so you should eat something sticky to stick your chin. Sticking fire spoon is a traditional food of Laba Festival in the north. Bake hundreds of Laba dishes at a time. After baking, they were put in a vat in the barn and frozen with snow. When eating, you can take it out and put it in a pot for distillation.

The sticky fire spoon is made of glutinous rice flour, which is added to neutralize the viscosity, and red beans or roasted sesame seeds are cooked in a pot as stuffing. Glutinous rice flour is kneaded into dough, filled with sweet red bean paste, pressed into small thick cakes and cooked in a pot. After taking a bite out of the pot, the skin is crisp and sticky, the filling is sweet and soft, and the size is small and exquisite, much like the China version of the gong.

(4) Eat ice

ice

On the day before Laba, people usually use steel pots to scoop water for freezing. When the Laba Festival is over, they will remove the ice and break it. As the saying goes, "If you can't accomplish anything in the coming year, look at Laba Ice first". On the morning of Laba, people will go to rivers and springs to smash ice and take it home. This is the so-called Laba ice. Whoever gets up early and freezes first will have better luck.

It is said that Laba ice can cure all diseases. From this day on, the ice should be preserved for a long time, so that children can have a happy time when they eat ice. Of course, adults also eat. Interestingly, no matter how you eat it, you won't have diarrhea. On this day, women will mix dough with flour made of "Laba Ice", peas and highland barley.