Folk food during the Tang Dynasty. Around the Cold Food Festival, porridge was cooked with fresh peach petals, and this custom still existed until the end of the Ming Dynasty. Tang Feng Zhi's "Miscellaneous Notes on Yunxian":"People in Luoyang fill thousands of flower yu for cold food and cook peach blossom porridge." Kong Shang Ren of the Qing Dynasty "Peach Blossom Fan. Send Fan ":" Liu Lang arrived on the third of March. He joined hands in the makeup shop and ate peach blossom porridge."
[Authentic ingredients] Fresh peach petals, japonica rice.
[Efficacy] Reduce swelling and fullness, release evil energy, relax water, eliminate phlegm and stagnation. Treating bowel movements is difficult.
[Yiji] Stop relaxing your bowel movement and take it without staying for a long time. Peach blossoms are cool and suitable for constipation due to heat in the stomach.
The peach blossom porridge I made has more brown rice, and I personally prefer to eat it with o(④_④)o
Qingming Peach Blossom Congee
Recipe Recommendations
- glutinous rice appropriate amount
- brown rice appropriate amount
- rock sugar appropriate amount
- sodium carbonate appropriate amount
- water appropriate amount
- sweetening
- cook
- half an hour
- ordinary
Steps for Qingming Peach Blossom Congee
1
Prepare appropriate amount of rock sugar and add it according to your preference.
2
Prepare a small handful of brown rice.
3
Prepare a small handful of japonica rice.
4
Prepare peach blossoms.
5
Prepare the alkali surface.
6
Clean the brown rice and soak it in water for a while (if the brown rice is not ripe, soak it for a while longer).
7
Clean the japonica rice and soak in water for a period of time.
8
Put the peach blossoms in water and soak for a few minutes.
9
Put the japonica rice, brown rice, peach blossoms, and water into a pressure cooker (when making porridge, the ratio of water is generally 1:3, and add more water if you want to make it thinner).
10
Add a little alkali noodles (Add a little alkali noodles to make the porridge thicker. Alkaline noodles are a good helper for making porridge).
11
Add appropriate amount of rock sugar.
12
Cover the lid, turn on medium heat, spray and lower the heat, and wait for another 10 minutes.
13
Put the prepared porridge into a bowl and sprinkle with the crushed peach blossoms.Qingming Peach Blossom Congee Make Tips
Authentic peach blossom porridge is made from fresh peach blossoms. Because fresh peach blossoms are rarely found in ordinary families, they can be replaced with dried peach blossoms, with the same effect and more convenient.