Today is the Feast of Lapa Ba
The eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar
In the north of our country
There is a saying that "children and children, don't be hungry, after the eighth year is the year"
Passing the Lapa Eight means
Kicked off the New Year
From this day on
People started buying New Year goods
Welcome to the annual Chinese New Year
After the eighth year is the year
The main custom of the Lapa Festival is to "drink Lapa Porridge" and soak Lapa Eight Vinegar.
The history of drinking Laba porridge in China has been 1,000 years. Although the ingredients of Laba porridge are different in different regions, they basically include cereals such as rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, purple rice, barley, soybeans, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans, cowpeas, red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, goji berries, chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, guiyuan, raisins, white fruits and other dried fruits.
Lapa eight vinegar, refers to the use of vinegar to soak garlic on the day of Lapa Eight, to soak until the first day of the New Year, the first day to eat dumplings, to dip Lapa Eight Vinegar to eat, Lapa Eight Vinegar is not only mellow taste, but also not bad for a long time.
It is healthier to eat porridge this way
How to drink lapa porridge healthily, the reporter consulted Zuo Xia, director of the Nutrition Department of the Eighth Medical Center of the General Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and she gave several suggestions from the perspective of nutrition.
1. Lapa porridge is best to have coarse and fine materials, if it is all coarse grains, the taste will not be good, and the elderly are not very easy to digest.
2. Grains are nourished, and lost beans are bad. The amino acids in rice and beans complement each other to improve protein utilization. Therefore, in addition to some coarse grains and fine grains, it is also necessary to match some beans, such as kidney beans, black beans, mung beans, red beans and so on.
3. It is best to add some nuts to the porridge, because the lecithin in the nuts can strengthen the brain and emollient the skin.
4. The color of porridge is as colorful as possible, because different colors have different plant nutrients.
5. Laba porridge is not necessarily eight treasure porridge, it can be multi-treasure porridge. If you like sweets and your blood sugar is not high, you can add some dried fruits, such as raisins, dried cinnamon, dried cranberries and so on.
6. Diabetics should drink less porridge, especially porridge cooked for a long time with fine grains.
Small recipes with Laba porridge
Ingredients: 20 grams of rice, 20 grams of millet, 20 grams of oats, 15 grams of purple rice, 20 grams of sweet corn kernels, 15 grams of red beans, 20 grams of peanut rice, 5 lotus seeds, 3 cinnamon balls, 5 jujubes.
Directions: 1. Wash the red beans and lotus seeds and soak them for 4 hours in advance.
2. Wash all the raw materials, put them in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil the porridge for 1 hour after the water is boiled, and then eat.
Source: Workers Daily client Workers Daily reporter Ji Wei
Source: Workers Daily