Laba Festival requires Laba porridge or Laba rice. What's the difference between Laba porridge and Laba rice? What is the traditional meaning of eating Laba rice? Can you cook Laba rice? This article brings you the difference between Laba porridge and Laba rice, the moral introduction, and the production method of Laba rice. Let's learn together.
Some boiled dry Laba rice, some boiled thin Laba porridge. The custom of eating Laba rice and drinking Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is still popular in southern Shaanxi, northern Sichuan, Eastern Chongqing and Daba Mountain.
Laba rice or Laba porridge was originally called 'Hybrid Rice'. It generally has eight flavors, that is, it is cooked with eight kinds of grain. Such as rice, corn, wheat, soybeans, peas, peas, sweet potato, potato, etc. At the same time, eight kinds of vegetables such as pork, tofu, vermicelli, cabbage, radish, green onion, lotus, old orchid melon, plus spices and spices, are stewed into 'saozi'. When the eight kinds of mixed grain are half cooked, pour saozi into the pot and cook it with the porridge made of the mixed grain. It tastes delicious and nutritious.
What is the traditional meaning of eating Laba rice
When I was a child, every family in the village cooked Laba rice on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The elders scooped a large bowl of the cooked Laba rice and put it in the cupboard. When they cooked the next day, they scooped a spoon in the newly cooked rice and ate it until the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. This means that they can't eat it all the year round in the second year. Then he scooped up a bowl of respect for God and nature. God respected it. It was the size of a house. People, old and young, waited until they ate the Laba rice.
Preparation method of Laba rice
1. Wash the bacon and cut it into small pieces. Wash white radish, kelp, dried tofu and cabbage stem and cut into small pieces. Clean japonica rice, glutinous rice and peanuts respectively.
2. Heat the iron pot, add water, bacon and ginger slices, remove the floating foam after boiling, add kelp and peanuts, push them with a spoon, cook for about 5 minutes, add japonica rice and glutinous rice, and then add dried tofu, white radish and cabbage stem, stir well, cook until all kinds of raw materials become soft, sprinkle pepper and refined salt, mix well, and cook over low heat until the dried rice is cooked.
Tip: when cooking, first cook bacon, then add kelp and peanuts, and then add rice, dried tofu, white radish, cabbage stem and seasoning to make it mature and consistent.